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The 2025 BWF World Tour ... This is the complete schedule of events on the 2025 calendar, [3] [4] ... Fort Worth, Texas, United States; Venue: Fort Worth Convention ...
The 2024 BWF season is the overall badminton circuit organized by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) for the 2024 badminton season. The world badminton tournament in 2024 consists of: 1. BWF tournaments (Grade 1; Major Events) BWF World Team Championships (Thomas & Uber Cup) Olympics; 2. BWF World Tour (Grade 2) Level 1 (BWF World Tour Finals)
The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018, [9] 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.
The highest points and prize pool are offered at the Super 1000 level (including the World Tour Finals). One other category of the tournament, the BWF Tour Super 100 (level 6), also offers BWF World Tour ranking points. It still acts as an important part of the pathway and entry point for players into the BWF World Tour tournaments.
There is also a separate U.S. Open Badminton Championships which is open to foreign competitors. The history of the two tournaments is rather complicated. Prior to 1954 all U.S. Badminton Championships had a "closed" format with only U.S. citizens and residents eligible to compete. From 1954 through 1969 the tournament was open to foreign ...
Weeks spent as top-ranked women's singles shuttler from 1990 to week 12 of 2020 (Note: There is a slight difference in total counts due to the nonsynchronous nature of unofficial unified ranking week count which began on 01/01/1990 and the official BWF World Ranking which began on 01/10/2009, hence the non-display of Ratchanok INTANON above.)
The time period between 1949 and 1967 was the biggest period of badminton popularity in the United States. In 1949, David Freeman brought the United States its first ever world championship title. Freeman won the Men's Singles at the All-England Championships. Additionally, between 1949 and 1967 the United States won 23 championships in badminton.
The U.S. Open Badminton Championships is an annual badminton tournament first held in 1954 (71 years ago) () when the American Badminton Association (now USA Badminton) opened the U.S. National Badminton Championships to foreign competition. During the 1950s and 1960s it often attracted the world's top players.