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U.S. National Badminton Championships 2019. The U.S. National Badminton Championships is a tournament organized by USA Badminton (originally the American Badminton Association) and held annually to crown the best badminton players in the United States. The tournament started in Chicago in 1937.
The 2023 U.S. Open (officially known as the Yonex US Open 2023 for sponsorship reasons) was a badminton tournament which took place at Council Bluffs, Iowa, United States, from 11 to 16 July 2023 and had a total purse of $210,000.
Apart from the BWF World Tour Finals, there are 4 Super 1000, 6 Super 750, 9 Super 500, and 11 Super 300 tournaments in a season. [1] Super 100 tournaments are selected every year with 11 tournaments selected in 2018. From 2019, Scottish Open was relegated to International Challenge. From 2021, Dutch Open became an International Challenge.
Badminton fails to receive substantial media attention in the United States and with that comes low wages. Participants can earn up to $15,000 for winning a championship, which is a relatively small amount of money in comparison to an average football player that has a salary of $2.7 million.
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.
The name was changed to United States Badminton Association in 1978, and later changed to its present name in 1996. [6] USA Badminton used to train its elite players at a national training center in Colorado Springs, but they relocated to Anaheim in early 2017. [7] Badminton is not a popular sport in the United States for several reasons.
The U.S. para badminton duo of Jayci Simon and Miles Krajewski earned a silver medal in mixed doubles SH6 at the Paralympics in Paris.
The team were eliminated in the first round of the knockout stages. In 2022, the women's team won the 2022 Pan Am Female Badminton Cup and qualified for the 2022 Uber Cup. [11] The team finished last in the group. [8] In 2024, the team were runners-up at the 2024 Pan Am Female Badminton Cup. The team lost 3–0 to Canada in the final.