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2025 Swiss Open (badminton)
The 2025 Swiss Open (officially known as the Yonex Swiss Open 2025 for sponsorship reasons) was a badminton tournament that took place at the St. Jakobshalle, Basel, Switzerland, from 18 to 23 March 2025 and had a total prize of US$250,000. Tournament The 2025 Swiss Open was the ninth tournament of the 2025 BWF World Tour and was part of the Swiss Open championships, which have been held since 1955. This tournament is organized by the Yonex Swiss Open with sanction from the BWF. Venue This tournament was held at the St. Jakobshalle in Basel, Switzerland. Point distribution Below is the point distribution table for each phase of the tournament based on the BWF points system for the BWF World Tour Super 300 event. Prize pool The total prize money is US$250,000 with the distribution of the prize money in accordance with BWF regulations. Men's singles Seeds # Shi Yuqi ''(withdrew)'' # Anders Antonsen ''(second round)'' # Kunlavut Vitidsarn ''(quarter-finals) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basel
Basel ( ; ), also known as Basle ( ), ; ; ; . is a city in northwestern Switzerland on the river Rhine (at the transition from the High Rhine, High to the Upper Rhine). Basel is Switzerland's List of cities in Switzerland, third-most-populous city (after Zurich and Geneva), with 177,595 inhabitants within the city municipality limits. The official language of Basel is Swiss Standard German and the main spoken language is the local Basel German dialect. Basel is commonly considered to be the cultural capital of Switzerland and the city is famous for its many Museums in Basel, museums, including the Kunstmuseum Basel, Kunstmuseum, which is the first collection of art accessible to the public in the world (1661) and the largest museum of Swiss art, art in Switzerland, the Fondation Beyeler (located in Riehen), the Museum Tinguely and the Museum of Contemporary Art (Basel), Museum of Contemporary Art, which is the first public museum of contemporary art in Europe. Forty museums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anders Antonsen
Anders Antonsen (born 27 April 1997) is a Danish badminton player. He is a three-time World Championships medalist, two-time European Champion, and he has been ranked as high as No. 2 in the men’s singles discipline of BWF World Ranking. He won the gold medal at the 2015 European Junior Championships in the boys singles event, and at the same year was awarded the European Young Player of the Year. Together with the national team, he won the European Men's Team Championships in 2016 and 2018; also European Mixed Team Championships in 2017, 2019, 2021 and 2023. Antonsen was the champion at the 2019 Minsk European Games, 2021 European Championships, the silver medalist at the 2017 European Championships, and the 2019 World Championships, and the bronze medalist at the 2021 and the 2023 World Championships. Career Antonsen started his career in badminton at six years of age in Kastanievej, Viby. Together with his brother Kasper Antonsen, they learned from his father wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wang Tzu-wei
Wang Tzu-wei (; born 27 February 1995) is a Taiwanese badminton player. He won his first international title at the 2014 New Zealand Open tournament. Wang competed at the 2017 Summer Universiade, where he won the gold medals in the men's singles and team events. He also competed at the 2018 Asian Games and 2020 Summer Olympics. Achievements Summer Universiade ''Men's singles'' World University Championships ''Men's singles'' BWF World Junior Championships ''Boys' singles'' Asian Junior Championships ''Boys' singles'' BWF World Tour (1 title) The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018, is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). The BWF World Tour is divided into levels of World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300 (part of the HSBC World Tour), and the BWF Tour Super 100. ''Men's singles'' BWF Grand Prix (2 titles, 5 runn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lu Guangzu
Lu Guangzu (; born on 19 October 1996) is a Chinese badminton player. He was a silver medalist in the 2025 Asian Championships. Lu was integrated to China winning team in the 2021 and 2023 Sudirman Cup, as well at the 2024 Thomas Cup. In 2018, Lu made into his first final at the Lingshui China Masters. Since then, he both won Australian Open and Canada Open's titles. Career Lu reached the final of the Australian Open, his first final in four years, defeating world number 2 Lee Zii Jia en route. Although he lost to compatriot Shi Yuqi in three games, he qualified for the World Tour Finals for the first time in his career. In his group, he defeated Prannoy H. S. in a tight three-game match, but failed to qualify for the semi-finals as he lost to world No.1 Viktor Axelsen and Kodai Naraoka, both in straight games. In 2025, he reached the final in the Asian Championships held in Ningbo, but was defeated by Kunlavut Vitidsarn. Achievements Asian Championships ''Men' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Su Li-yang
Su Li-yang ( zh, s=, t=蘇力揚, p=Sū Lìyáng; born 27 December 2001) is a Taiwanese badminton player. Career Su Li-yang's father Su Chih-ming was also a badminton player. Su Li-yang started to playing badminton when he was in the first grade of elementary school. Educated at the Datong High School, he had shown his potential as an excellent badminton player at several national and international tournaments. He also later studied at the University of Taipei. In 2017, at the age of 16, he reached the semi-finals of the senior international tournament Sydney International. He won his first international title at the 2018 Italian Junior International. In 2019, he won the Mongolia Junior international, and later settled for the bronze medal at the Asian Junior Championships. In 2022, he reached the finals of the Bonn International, Mongolia International and Bendigo International. Achievements Asian Junior Championships ''Boys' singles'' BWF World Tour (1 runner-up) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chi Yu-jen
Chi Yu-jen (; born 25 June 1997) is a Taiwanese badminton player. He won his first BWF World Tour title at the 2023 Syed Modi International. Achievements BWF World Tour (2 titles, 1 runner-up) The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018, is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). The BWF World Tour is divided into levels of World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300, and the BWF Tour Super 100. ''Men's singles'' BWF International Challenge/Series (2 titles, 2 runners-up) ''Men's singles'' ''Mixed doubles'' : BWF International Challenge tournament : BWF International Series tournament : BWF Future Series The BWF Future Series is a grade 3 and level 3 tournaments part of Continental Circuit of BWF tournaments along with International Challenge (level 1) and International Series (level 2), sanctioned by Badminton World Federation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rasmus Gemke
Rasmus Gemke (born 11 January 1997) is a Danish badminton player. He was awarded the 2012 Badminton Denmark Comet of the Year. He was part of the Danish national U-19 team to win bronze at the 2015 European Junior Badminton Championships in Lubin, Poland. He made his senior international debut at the 2016 Belgian International tournament. Achievements BWF World Tour (1 title, 4 runners-up) The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018, is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). The BWF World Tour is divided into levels of World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300 (part of the HSBC World Tour), and the BWF Tour Super 100. ''Men's singles'' BWF Grand Prix (1 title) The BWF Grand Prix had two levels, the Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold. It was a series of badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) and played betw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiran George
Kiran George (born 11 February 2000) is an Indian badminton player. He won the Polish International title. He also competed in the 2020 Thomas Cup and 2022 Badminton Asia Team Championships. Career 2021–22 In 2021, Kiran George's first tournament played was the Orléans Masters where lost to Brice Leverdez in the 3rd round. In September, Kiran played in the Polish International where he won the tournament beating Jason Teh in the finals winning his first ever tournament since the Ghana International in 2019. He also reached the semis of the Welsh International but lost to Siril Verma. In 2022, Kiran started the year by playing in 3 BWF world tour tournaments including the India Open Which he lost the first round and the Syed Modi International which he also lost the first round and the Odisha Open which he won the title beating Priyanshu Rajawat to win his first ever BWF World Tour title. He competed at the 2022 Badminton Asia Team Championships but was eliminated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Chia-hao
Lee Chia-hao (; born 4 June 1999) is a Taiwanese badminton player affiliated with AP team. Career Lee was born in a badminton family. His father Lee Mou-chou is a former national champion who now works as Land Bank team head coach, and his sister Lee Chia-hsin is a member of national team. He has won several junior titles in his career, namely 2016 Australian Junior International in both singles and doubles events, Singapore Youth International, 2017 German Junior Grand Prix, and defended his boys' singles Australian title. He also won the silver medal at the 2016 Asian Junior Championships. With his achievements, the 17-year-old, Lee became the first Taiwanese player to rank no. 1 in the world junior rankings in January 2017. Achievements Asian Junior Championships ''Boys' singles'' BWF World Tour (1 title, 3 runners-up) The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018, is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christo Popov
Christo Popov (born 8 March 2002) is a French badminton player who affiliate with Fos club. He won the men's doubles gold at the 2025 European Championships with his brother Toma Junior Popov. He also won a silver in the men's singles and a bronze in the men's doubles at the 2023 European Games. He became the first Frenchman to reach the semi-finals of the All England Open. Christo Popov was the boys' doubles European U15 and U17 Junior Champions, also won the boys' singles silver medals at the 2018 European and 2019 World Junior Championships. He reached a career high as boys' singles World Junior number 1 in January 2020. He then clinched the boys' singles title at the 2020 European Junior Championships. Early life Christo Popov was born in Sofia, Bulgaria. He comes from a family featuring other professional badminton players. His father, Thomas, played for and coached the Bulgarian national team; his mother, Tzvetomira, was a national badminton referee; and his older ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lin Chun-yi (badminton)
Lin Chun-yi (; born 2 October 1999) is a badminton player from Taiwan, representing Chinese Taipei. Career 2023 In February 2023, Lin reached the final of Thailand Masters by defeating the former World No. 2 men's singles Chinese player, Shi Yuqi in the semi-finals. He defeated the 4th seed and World No. 18 men's singles Hong Kong player Ng Ka Long in the final to win his second BWF World Tour title. Achievements BWF World Tour (5 titles, 1 runner-up) The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018, is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). The BWF World Tour is divided into levels of World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300, and the BWF Tour Super 100. ''Men's singles'' BWF International Challenge/Series (6 titles, 3 runners-up) ''Men's singles'' : BWF International Challenge tournament : BWF International Series The BWF Interna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chou Tien-chen
Chou Tien-chen (; born 8 January 1990) is a Taiwanese badminton player. He became the first local shuttler in 17 years to win the men's singles title of the Chinese Taipei Open in 2016 since Indonesian-born Fung Permadi won it in 1999. He won his first BWF Super Series title at the 2014 French Open, beating Wang Zhengming of China 10–21, 25–23, 21–19 in the finals. He is the record holder of three consecutive Hylo Open titles from 2012 till 2014. Achievements BWF World Championships ''Men's singles'' Asian Games ''Men's singles'' Asian Championships ''Men's singles'' Summer Universiade ''Men's singles'' Asian Junior Championships ''Mixed doubles'' BWF World Tour (10 titles, 15 runners-up) The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018, is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). The BWF World Tour is divided into levels of World Tour Finals, Super 1000, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
