All England Open Badminton Championships

All England Open
Official website
Founded1899 (1899)
Editions114 (2024)
LocationBirmingham (2024)
England
VenueArena Birmingham (2024)
Prize moneyUSD1,300,000 (2024)
Men's
Draw32S / 32D
Current championsJonatan Christie (singles)
Fajar Alfian
Muhammad Rian Ardianto (doubles)
Most singles titles8, Rudy Hartono
Most doubles titles9, George Alan Thomas
Women's
Draw32S / 32D
Current championsCarolina Marín (singles)
Baek Ha-na
Lee So-hee (doubles)
Most singles titles10, Judy Devlin
Most doubles titles10, Meriel Lucas
Mixed doubles
Draw32
Current championsZheng Siwei
Huang Yaqiong
Most titles (male)8
George Alan Thomas
Finn Kobberø
Most titles (female)8, Betty Uber
Super 1000
Last completed
2024 All England Open

The All England Open Badminton Championships is the world's oldest badminton tournament, held annually in England. With the introduction of the BWF's latest grading system, it was given Super Series status in 2007, upgraded to Super Series Premier status in 2011, and designated a Super 1000 event at the birth of the World Tour in 2018.[1] The Super 1000 events, held in four historic strongholds of the sport of badminton (Great Britain, China, Malaysia and Indonesia) are the highest level events below the World Championships and Olympic Games tournaments, and broadly equivalent in stature, though apart from the All-England not in historicity, to the Grand Slam tournaments in tennis.[2]

The world's first open tournament was held in the English town of Guildford in 1898, the success of which paved the way for the All England's inaugural edition, which was held at London's Horticultural Halls in 1899. Although the inaugural edition consisted of just the doubles format, the singles were introduced from the second edition onward.[3] It was eventually considered – especially after the first Thomas Cup series in 1949 – the unofficial world championship of the sport until 1977, when the International Badminton Federation launched its official championships.[4]

There were two instances when it was halted – from 1915 to 1919 (due to World War I) and from 1940 to 1946 (due to World War II).[5]

  1. ^ "BWF Launches New Events Structure". 19 November 2017.
  2. ^ Gilmour, Rod (22 May 2010). "All England Badminton Championships handed "premier" status on world tour". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 24 April 2016. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
  3. ^ International Badminton ... the first 75 years. Badminton World Federation. p. 80. Archived from the original on 24 April 2016. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
  4. ^ Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian. The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results. Guinness Superlatives Ltd. pp. 74-78. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
  5. ^ "History". Badminton England. Archived from the original on 29 April 2016. Retrieved 26 April 2016.

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