BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix

The BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix was a series of badminton tournaments sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) which was run from 2007 to 2017.

Features

Prize money

A Grand Prix Gold tournament offered minimum prize money of US$120,000, while a Grand Prix tournament offered minimum prize money of US$50,000. The formula of prize money distribution was identical to Super Series tournament.[1]

World Ranking points

Main article: BWF World Ranking

The BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix series offered third only to BWF tournaments (after BWF events and Super Series), according to World Ranking system.[2]

Tournaments

Tournament Season
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Australian Open ● ● ● ● ●
Bitburger Open ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●
Brasil Open ● ● ●
Bulgaria Open ●
Canada Open ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●
China Masters ● ● ● ●
Chinese Taipei Masters ● ●
Chinese Taipei Open ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●
Dutch Open ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●
German Open ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●
India Open ● ● ●
Indonesian Masters ● ● ● ● ● ● ●
Korea Masters ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●
London Grand Prix Gold ●
Macau Open ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●
Malaysia Masters ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●
Mexico City Grand Prix ●
New Zealand Open ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●
Philippines Open ● ●
Russian Open ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●
Scottish Open ● ● ● ● ●
Swiss Open ● ● ● ● ● ● ●
Syed Modi International ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●
Thailand Masters ● ●
Thailand Open ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●
U.S. Grand Prix ● ●
U.S. Open ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●
Vietnam Open ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●
● Grand Prix
● Grand Prix Gold

References

  1. ^ "Regulations for Grand Prix". Badminton World Federation. Bwfbadminton.org. Archived from the original on 14 February 2014. Retrieved 15 February 2014.
  2. ^ "Overview Ranking". Badminton World Federation. Bwfbadminton.org. Archived from the original on 2011-08-13. Retrieved 15 February 2014.