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Syed Modi International Badminton Championships

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Syed Modi International
Official website
Founded2009; 17 years ago (2009)
Editions14 (2025)
LocationLucknow (2025)
India
VenueBabu Banarasi Das Indoor Stadium (2025)
Prize moneyUSD240,000 (2025)
Men's
Draw32S / 32D
Current championsJason Gunawan (singles)
Kang Khai Xing
Aaron Tai (doubles)
Most singles titles2
Kashyap Parupalli
Sameer Verma
Most doubles titles2
Mathias Boe
Carsten Mogensen
Women's
Draw32S / 32D
Current championsHina Akechi (singles)
Treesa Jolly
Gayatri Gopichand (doubles)
Most singles titles3
Saina Nehwal
P. V. Sindhu
Most doubles titles2
Jung Kyung-eun
Treesa Jolly
Gayatri Gopichand
Mixed doubles
Draw32
Current championsDejan Ferdinansyah
Bernadine Wardana
Most titles (male)2
Dejan Ferdinansyah
Most titles (female)1, all winners
Super 300
Ongoing
2025 Syed Modi International

The Syed Modi International Badminton Championships is a BWF World Tour Super 300 international badminton tournament held annually in India.

It was introduced to the badminton circuit as a BWF Grand Prix event in 2009.[1] Since then the tournament has been annually held in Lucknow at the Babu Banarasi Das Indoor Stadium, although it was temporarily shifted to Hyderabad in 2010.[2][3] In 2011, it was upgraded to the Grand Prix Gold event.[4] Badminton World Federation launched a new event structure in 2017. This tournament was then announced as a World Tour Super 300 event ever since 2018.[5]

History

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The tournament was inaugurated by Uttar Pradesh Badminton Association in 1991 as the Syed Modi Memorial Badminton Tournament in memory of Commonwealth Games champion Syed Modi.[6]

From its inauguration till 2003, it remained a national-level tournament.[7][8] In 2004, it was organized as an international event for the first time, which saw some foreign participation.[9][10]

The tournament was halted from 2005 to 2008 due to a political impasse between the UPBA and the Government of Uttar Pradesh, which ended with relocation of the Uttar Pradesh Badminton Academy.[11][12][13]

Locations

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Below is the cities that have hosted the tournament.

Locations of Syed Modi International Badminton Championships host cities

Winners

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Year Men's singles Women's singles Men's doubles Women's doubles Mixed doubles Ref
2009 India Chetan Anand India Saina Nehwal Indonesia Fauzi Adnan
Indonesia Trikusuma Wardhana
Japan Misaki Matsutomo
Japan Ayaka Takahashi
India Arun Vishnu
India Aparna Balan
[14][15]
2010 Indonesia Dionysius Hayom Rumbaka China Zhou Hui Indonesia Mohammad Ahsan
Indonesia Bona Septano
China Tang Jinhua
China Xia Huan
China Liu Peixuan
China Tang Jinhua
[16][17]
2011 Indonesia Taufik Hidayat Thailand Ratchanok Intanon Japan Naoki Kawamae
Japan Shoji Sato
Singapore Shinta Mulia Sari
Singapore Yao Lei
Thailand Sudket Prapakamol
Thailand Saralee Thungthongkam
[18][19]
2012 India Parupalli Kashyap Indonesia Lindaweni Fanetri South Korea Ko Sung-hyun
South Korea Lee Yong-dae
Thailand Savitree Amitrapai
Thailand Sapsiree Taerattanachai
Indonesia Fran Kurniawan
Indonesia Shendy Puspa Irawati
[20][21]
2013 No competition
2014 China Xue Song India Saina Nehwal China Li Junhui
China Liu Yuchen
China Chen Qingchen
China Jia Yifan
China Wang Yilyu
China Huang Yaqiong
[22][23]
2015 India Parupalli Kashyap India Saina Nehwal Denmark Mathias Boe
Denmark Carsten Mogensen
Malaysia Amelia Alicia Anscelly
Malaysia Soong Fie Cho
Indonesia Riky Widianto
Indonesia Richi Puspita Dili
[24][25]
2016 India Srikanth Kidambi South Korea Sung Ji-hyun Malaysia Goh V Shem
Malaysia Tan Wee Kiong
South Korea Jung Kyung-eun
South Korea Shin Seung-chan
Indonesia Praveen Jordan
Indonesia Debby Susanto
[26][27]
2017 India Sameer Verma India P. V. Sindhu Denmark Mathias Boe
Denmark Carsten Mogensen
Denmark Christinna Pedersen
Denmark Kamilla Rytter Juhl
India Pranav Chopra
India N. Sikki Reddy
[28][29]
2018 India Sameer Verma China Han Yue Indonesia Fajar Alfian
Indonesia Muhammad Rian Ardianto
Malaysia Chow Mei Kuan