The 2016 Canada Open Grand Prix, parallel with the

2016 Chinese Taipei Open Grand Prix Gold The 2016 Chinese Taipei Open Grand Prix Gold, parallel with the 2016 Canada Open Grand Prix, is the eighth/ninth Grand Prix's badminton tournament of the 2016 BWF Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold. The tournament will be held at the Taipei Arena in ...

, is the eighth/ninth Grand Prix's badminton tournament of the

2016 BWF Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold The 2016 BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix was the tenth season of the BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix. Schedule Below is the schedule released by Badminton World Federation The Badminton World Federation (BWF) is the international governi ...

. The tournament was held at the Markin MacPhail Centre in Calgary, Alberta,

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on 28 June – 3 July 2016 and has a total purse of $55,000.

Men's singles

Seeds

Ajay Jayaram Ajay Jayaram (born 28 September 1987) is an Indian retired badminton player from Chennai. He plays for the Mumbai Rockets in the Premier Badminton League. Jayaram is a champion of the Czech International and Dutch Open tournament. Ajay Jayara ...

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H. S. Prannoy Prannoy Haseena Sunil Kumar (born 17 July 1992), also known as H. S. Prannoy, is an Indian badminton player who currently trains at the Gopichand Badminton Academy in Hyderabad. Prannoy originally hails from Thiruvananthapuram and has a ca ...

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Lee Hyun-il Lee Hyun-il ( ko, 이현일; born 17 April 1980) is a former badminton player from South Korea. He is a former World and Asian Championships bronze medalist, and was part of South Korean team that won the 2003 Sudirman Cup as well the gold medal ...

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B. Sai Praneeth Bhamidipati Sai Praneeth (born 10 August 1992) is an Indian badminton player. He became the first Indian male shuttler in 36 years to win a bronze medal in the BWF World Championships in 2019 after Prakash Padukone in 1983. Sai Praneeth was ho ...

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Nguyen Tien Minh Nguyễn () is the most common Vietnamese surname. Outside of Vietnam, the surname is commonly rendered without diacritics as Nguyen. Nguyên (元）is a different word and surname. By some estimates 39 percent of Vietnamese people bear this s ...

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Pablo Abián Pablo Abián Vicén (; born 12 June 1985) is a Spanish badminton player. He was the men's singles gold medalists at the 2015 European Games, 2018 and 2022 Mediterranean Games. Olympic Games 2008 (Beijing, China) He competed in badminton ...

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Brice Leverdez Brice Leverdez (born 9 April 1986) is a French badminton player. He was a champion at the 2013 Mediterranean Games, won a silver medal at the 2015 European Games, and a bronze medal at the 2018 European Championships. Career Leverdez started p ...

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Raul Must Raul Must (born November 9, 1987) is a badminton player from Estonia. He is a four time Olympian representing Estonia at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, 2012 London Olympics, 2016 Rio Olympics and also at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. Must was a men ...

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Women's singles

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Michelle Li Michelle Li (born November 3, 1991) is a Canadian badminton player from Markham, Ontario. Li is the 2014 Commonwealth Games champion and the first Canadian to win an individual gold medal in women's singles badminton at the Commonwealth Games. S ...

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Zhang Beiwen Beiwen Zhang (; born 12 July 1990) is a Chinese-born American badminton player who is a singles specialist. Career Zhang was born in China and moved to Singapore at the age of 13 in 2003 and played with the Singapore National Team until 2012. ...

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Iris Wang Iris Wang (born September 2, 1994) is an American badminton player who competed at the Badminton at the 2016 Summer Olympics, 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Personal life Wang was born in Pasadena, California, on September 2, ...

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Linda Zetchiri Linda Zetchiri ( bg, Линда Зечири; born 27 July 1987) is a Bulgarian badminton player. She competed in the women's singles at the 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics. Career Zetchiri is one of the leading Bulgarian players in the sport. Sh ...

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Men's doubles

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Manu Attri Manu Attri (born 31 December 1992) is an Indian badminton player who currently plays men's and mixed doubles. He partners with Jishnu Sanyal for men's doubles events and previously partnered with B. Sumeeth Reddy. For mixed doubles events, he p ...

/ B. Sumeeth Reddy (Champion) #

Pranaav Jerry Chopra Pranaav Jerry Chopra (born 6 September 1992) is an Indian badminton player. He joined the India national badminton team in 2007. In the year 2018, at the Commonwealth Games held in Gold Coast, Queensland, he won the gold medal in mixed team as b ...

/ Akshay Dewalkar ''(Withdrew)'' # Matthew Chau / Sawan Serasinghe ''(Quarterfinal)'' #

Joshua Magee Joshua Magee (born 3 November 1994) is an Irish badminton player. He started playing badminton at the age of six in Raphoe club, and was selected to join the national team in 2014. He competed at the 2015 and 2019 European Games, and in 2015, h ...

Sam Magee Samuel Magee (born 9 January 1990) is a retired Irish badminton player. He won the 2009 European Junior Badminton Championships, 2009 European Junior Championships in the boys' doubles event at Milan, Italy with his partner Sylvain Grosjean of F ...

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Women's doubles

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Jwala Gutta Jwala Gutta; family names traditionally precede personal names in Indian name#Telugu, Telugu naming customs (born 7 September 1983) is an Indian badminton player. Beginning in the late 1990s, she represented India at international events in bo ...

/ Ashwini Ponnappa ''(Second Round)'' #

Heather Olver Heather Olver (born 15 March 1986) is an English badminton player. Her career highlights so far include mixed team and mixed doubles silver at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, European women’s doubles bronze, and reaching the final of the 2013 Lon ...

/ Lauren Smith ''(Final)''

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Mixed doubles

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Robin Middleton Robin Middleton (born 8 February 1985) is an English badminton player currently representing Australia. He was one of the UK's leading badminton players. Born in Leeds in 1985, his interests include cricket, sky diving, and botany. He holds a 2. ...

/ Leanne Choo ''(Semifinal)'' #

Chloe Magee Chloe Noelle Magee (born 29 November 1988) is an Irish people, Irish professional badminton player. She represented her country at the Badminton at the Summer Olympics, Olympic Games for three consecutive times in Badminton at the 2008 Summer Oly ...

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David Obernosterer David Obernosterer (born 30 May 1989) is a male badminton player from Austria. He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of t ...

/ Elisabeth Baldauf ''(Second Round)'' #

Nico Ruponen Nico Mikael Ruponen (born 3 February 1989) is a Swedish badminton Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are " ...

Amanda Hogstrom Amanda is a Latin feminine gerundive (i.e. verbal adjective) name meaning, literally, “she who must (or is fit to) be loved”. Other translations, with similar meaning, could be "deserving to be loved," "worthy of love," or "loved very much ...

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References

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