Singaporean National Badminton Championships
Singaporean National Badminton Championships is an annual badminton tournament held in Singapore since 1961.[1]
History
In 1961, Singapore Badminton Association (SBA) started a local championships[1] to find talents to represent Singapore in regional and international competitions after the previous championships became an open invitation championships in 1957.[2]
Past winners
| Year | Men's singles | Women's singles | Men's doubles | Women's doubles | Mixed doubles |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961[3] |  Mohammed Sadali
|
Lim Choo Eng
|
Ong Poh Lim Lim Say Wan
|
Helen Ong Vivian Gwee
|
Ong Poh Lim Jessie Ong
|
| 1962[4] | Wee Choon Seng
|
Lim Choo Eng
|
Ong Poh Lim Lim Wei Lon
|
Luanne Lim Regina Richards
|
Lim Say Wan Lim Choo Eng
|
| 1963[5] | Lim Wei Lon
|
 Prathin Pattabongse
|
Ong Poh Lim Wee Choon Seng
|
Luanne Lim Woo Ti Soo
|
Ong Poh Lim Luanne Lim
|
| 1964[6] | Wong Tew Ghee
|
Lim Choo Eng
|
Ronnie Oon Cheong Cheng Swee
|
Lim Choo Eng Joyce Chuah
|
Tan Boon Liat Nancy Sng
|
| 1965[7][8] | Wong Tew Ghee
|
Lim Choo Eng
|
Ronnie Oon Cheong Cheng Swee
|
Lim Choo Eng Soh Chwee Liam
|
Lindy Lin Vivien Gwee
|
| 1966[9] | Ismail Ibrahim
|
Aishah Attan
|
Wee Choon Seng Lindy Lin
|
Aishah Attan Lucy Chow
|
Lindy Lin Vivien Gwee
|
| 1967[10][11][12][13] | Wee Choon Seng
|
Lim Choo Eng
|
Ronnie Oon Cheong Cheng Swee
|
Nancy Sng Woo Ti Soo
|
Lindy Lin Lim Choo Eng
|
| 1968[14] | Lee Kin Tat
|
Lim Choo Eng
|
Ronnie Oon Cheong Cheng Swee
|
Aishah Attan Lucy Chow
|
Ismail Ibrahim Lim Choo Eng
|
| 1969[15] | Yeo Ah Seng
|
Lim Choo Eng
|
Ronnie Oon Cheong Cheng Swee
|
Lim Choo Eng Aishah Attan
|
Yeo Ah Seng Margaret Ashworth
|
| 1970[16] | Wee Kin
|
Lim Choo Eng
|
Lee Wah Chin Yeo Ah Seng
|
Leong Kay Sine Leong Kay Peng
|
Choo Sin Hua Nancy Sng
|
| 1971[17] | Wee Kin
|
Lim Choo Eng
|
Low Kee Wah Ng Chor Yau
|
Lim Choo Eng Aishah Attan
|
unknown |
| 1972[18] | Yeo Ah Seng
|
Leong Kay Sine
|
Yeo Ah Seng Syed Ahmad Bakar
|
Leong Kay Sine Leong Kay Peng
|
Richard Chee Aishah Attan
|
| 1973[19] | Syed Ahmad Bakar
|
Lim Choo Eng
|
Yeo Ah Seng Ng Chor Yau
|
Lim Choo Eng Cindy Cheong
|
Yeo Ah Seng Lim Choo Eng
|
| 1974[20] | Lee Ah Ngo
|
Leong Kay Sine
|
Lee Ah Ngo Kok Peng Hon
|
Leong Kay Sine Leong Kay Peng
|
Tan Khee Wee Leong Kay Peng
|
| 1975[21][22] | Ng Chor Yau
|
Leong Kay Sine
|
Lee Wah Chin Kok Peng Hon
|
Leong Kay Sine Leong Kay Peng
|
Tan Khee Wee Leong Kay Peng
|
| 1976[23] | Lee Ah Ngo
|
Irene Lee
|
Tan Eng Han Tan Khee Wee
|
Peh Ah Bee Faridah Noh
|
Wee Choon Seng Peh Ah Bee
|
| 1977[24] | Tan Ban Chew
|
Cindy Cheong
|
Kok Peng Hon Tan Eng Han
|
Tan Chor Khiang Leong Kay Sine
|
Tan Khee Wee Leong Kay Sine
|
| 1978[25][26] | Wong Shoon Keat
|
Cindy Cheong
|
Kok Peng Hon Tan Eng Han
|
Leong Kay Sine Tay Hoe See
|
unknown |
| 1979[27][28][29][30] | Lee Ah Ngo
|
Cindy Cheong
|
Wong Shoon Keat Tan Eng Han
|
Cindy Cheong Juliana Lee
|
unknown |
| 1980[31][32][33] | Lee Ah Ngo
|
Tay Hoe See
|
Wong Shoon Keat Chin Soon Chye
|
Leong Kay Sine Tay Hoe See
|
no competition |
| 1981[34][35][36] | Wong Shoon Keat
|
Tay Hoe See
|
Tan Eng Han Tan Khee Wee
|
Leong Kay Sine Juliana Lee
|
no competition |
| 1982[37][38][39] | Wong Shoon Keat
|
Tay Hoe See
|
Tan Eng Han Tan Khee Wee
|
Ho Kam Meng Amy Goh
|
no competition |
| 1983[40][41][42] | Wong Shoon Keat
|
Irene Lee
|
Chia Hong Chong Kamaruddin Musa
|
Irene Lee Choy Leng Siong
|
no competition |
| 1984[43][44] | Lau Wing Cheok
|
Irene Lee
|
Wong Shoon Keat Wong Shoon Soo
|
Irene Lee Choy Leng Siong
|
no competition |
| 1985[45][46] | Hamid Khan
|
Choy Leng Siong
|
Hamid Khan Lau Wing Cheok
|
Irene Lee Choy Leng Siong
|
no competition |
| 1986[47] | Lau Wing Cheok
|
Choy Leng Siong
|
Hamid Khan Lau Wing Cheok
|
Choy Leng Siong Soo Chiew Ming
|
no competition |
| 1987[48] | Lau Wing Cheok
|
Choy Leng Siong
|
Hamid Khan Lau Wing Cheok
|
Irene Lee Choy Leng Siong
|
no competition |
| 1988[49][50] | Lau Wing Cheok
|
Zarinah Abdullah
|
Hamid Khan Lau Wing Cheok
|
Choy Leng Siong Soo Chiew Ming
|
no competition |
| 1989[51] | Hamid Khan
|
Zarinah Abdullah
|
Wong Shoon Keat Steven Oh
|
Irene Lee Choy Leng Siong
|
no competition |
| 1990[52] | Hamid Khan
|
Irene Lee
|
Hamid Khan Wong Shoon Keat
|
Irene Lee Choy Leng Siong
|
no competition |
| 1991[53] | Hamid Khan
|
Irene Lee
|
Hamid Khan Jimmy Wong
|
Irene Lee Choy Leng Siong
|
Hamid Khan Zarinah Abdullah
|
| 1992[54] | Donald Koh
|
Zarinah Abdullah
|
Hamid Khan Lim Boon Leng
|
Irene Lee Choy Leng Siong
|
Tan Sian Peng Choy Leng Siong
|
| 1993 | Hamid Khan
|
Irene Lee
|
Hamid Khan Lim Boon Leng
|
Chin Yen Li Chin Yen Peng
|
unknown |
| 1994[55] | Hamid Khan
|
Ong Ai Li
|
Hamid Khan Lim Boon Leng
|
Chin Yen Peng Ong Ai Li
|
Lau Wing Cheok Koh Ee Boon
|
| 1995[56][57] | Hamid Khan
|
Zanetta Lee Yu
|
Hamid Khan Wong Shoon Keat
|
Zanetta Lee Yu Chin Yen Peng
|
Patrick Lau Kim Pong Chin Yen Peng
|
| 1996[58] | Tan Sian Peng
|
Zarinah Abdullah
|
Tan Sian Peng Patrick Lau Kim Pong
|
Zarinah Abdullah Irene Lee
|
Tan Sian Peng Irene Lee
|
| 1997[59] | Tan Sian Peng
|
Zarinah Abdullah
|
Tan Sian Peng Patrick Lau Kim Pong
|
Zarinah Abdullah Fatimah Kumin Lim
|
Patrick Lau Kim Pong Chin Yen Peng
|
| 1998[60][61] | Patrick Lau Kim Pong
|
Zarinah Abdullah
|
Tan Sian Peng Patrick Lau Kim Pong
|
Zarinah Abdullah Fatimah Kumin Lim
|
Patrick Lau Kim Pong Irene Lee
|
| 1999[62] | Patrick Lau Kim Pong
|
Fatimah Kumin Lim
|
Tan Sian Peng Patrick Lau Kim Pong
|
Fatimah Kumin Lim Foo Shui Yen
|
Patrick Lau Kim Pong Fatimah Kumin Lim
|
| 2000[63] | Kendrick Lee Yen Hui
|
Fatimah Kumin Lim
|
Tan Sian Peng Patrick Lau Kim Pong
|
Fatimah Kumin Lim Foo Shui Yen
|
Tan Sian Peng Fatimah Kumin Lim
|
| 2001–2003 | Not held | ||||
| 2004[64] | Ronald Susilo
|
Colleen Goh Li En
|
Kendrick Lee Yen Hui Gerald Ho Hee Teck
|
Vanessa Neo Yu Yan Kimberley Lau May Ee
|
Ronald Susilo Xiao Luxi
|
| 2005[65] | Kendrick Lee Yen Hui
|
Jiang Yanmei
|
Ronald Susilo Kendrick Lee Yen Hui
|
Jiang Yanmei Xiao Luxi
|
Chua Yong Joo Jiang Yanmei
|
| 2006[66] | Derek Wong Zi Liang
|
Jill Vanessa Poo
|
Derek Wong Zi Liang Chua Yong Joo
|
Colleen Goh Li En Karen Yuen Ka Ying
|
Derek Wong Zi Liang Lim Tien Juan
|
| 2007[67] | Ronald Susilo
|
Xing Aiying
|
Hendra Wijaya Hendri Kurniawan Saputra
|
Yao Lei Liu Fan
|
Hendri Kurniawan Saputra Li Yujia
|
| 2008–2011 | Not held | ||||
| 2012[68] | Ashton Chen Yong Zhao
|
Liang Xiaoyu
|
Hendra Wijaya Hendri Kurniawan Saputra
|
no competition | Liu Yi Thng Ting Ting
|
| 2013[69] | Huang Chao
|
Xing Aiying
|
Liu Yi Terry Yeo Zhao Jiang
|
Fu Mingtian Shinta Mulia Sari
|
Liu Yi Fu Mingtian
|
| 2014–2018 | Not held | ||||
| 2019[70] | Loh Kean Yew
|
Yeo Jia Min
|
Rizky Hidayat Ismail Albert Saputra
|
Lim Ming Hui Citra Putri Sari Dewi
|
Danny Bawa Chrisnanta Tan Wei Han
|
| 2020[71] | Jason Teh
|
Jaslyn Hooi Yue Yann
|
Terry Hee Loh Kean Hean
|
Jin Yujia Crystal Wong
|
Terry Hee Crystal Wong
|
| 2021[72] | Jason Teh
|
Jaslyn Hooi Yue Yann
|
Terry Hee Loh Kean Hean
|
Bernice Lim Zhi Rui Lim Ming Hui
|
Terry Hee Elaine Chua
|
| 2022[73] |  Vega Vio Nirwanda
|
Nur Insyirah Khan
|
Albert Saputra Jason Wong Guang Liang
|
Jin Yujia Crystal Wong
|
Wesley Koh Eng Keat Crystal Wong
|
| 2023[74] | Vega Vio Nirwanda
|
Nur Insyirah Khan
|
Nge Joo Jie Johann Prajogo
|
Grace Chua Hui Zhen Megan Lee Xinyi
|
Bimo Adi Prakoso Liang Yun
|
Most successful players
Below is the list of the most successful players ever in the competition:
| Rank | Player | MS | WS | MD | WD | XD | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lim Choo Eng
|
10 | 5 | 4 | 19 | ||
| 2 | Hamid Khan
|
7 | 10 | 1 | 18 | ||
| 3 | Irene Lee
|
6 | 9 | 2 | 17 | ||
| 4 | Choy Leng Siong
|
3 | 10 | 1 | 14 | ||
| 5 | Leong Kay Sine
|
3 | 8 | 1 | 12 | ||
| 6 | Patrick Lau Kim Pong
|
2 | 5 | 4 | 11 | ||
| 7 | Wong Shoon Keat
|
4 | 6 | 10 | |||
| Tan Sian Peng
|
2 | 5 | 3 | 10 | |||
| Zarinah Abdullah
|
6 | 3 | 1 | 10 | |||
| 10 | Lau Wing Cheok
|
4 | 4 | 1 | 9 |
Below is the list of the most successful player(s) in each discipline (listed according to their last title):
| Category | Player | Total | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| MS | Hamid Khan
|
7 | 1985, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995 |
| WS | Lim Choo Eng
|
10 | 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973 |
| MD | Hamid Khan
|
10 | 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988 (with Lau Wing Cheok), 1990, 1995 (with Wong Shoon Keat), 1991 (with Jimmy Wong), 1992, 1993, 1994 (with Lim Boon Leng) |
| WD | Choy Leng Siong
|
10 | 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992 (with Irene Lee), 1986, 1988 (with Soo Chiew Ming) |
| XD | Lim Choo Eng
|
4 | 1962 (with Lim Say Wan), 1967 (with Lindy Lin), 1968 (with Ismail Ibrahim), 1973 (with Yeo Ah Seng) |
| Patrick Lau Kim Pong
|
1995, 1997 (with Chin Yen Peng), 1998 (with Irene Lee), 1999 (with Fatimah Kumin Lim) |
MS: Men's singles; WS: Women's singles; MD: Men's doubles; WD: Women's doubles; XD: Mixed doubles
References
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- ^ "SBA 'Open'". Singapore Standard. 28 August 1957. p. 13.
- ^ "Sadali Wins S'pore B.A. Singles Title". The Straits Times. 11 July 1961. p. 16.
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- ^ "Rush on to get fit for the *loot'". The Straits Times. 9 March 1982. p. 36.
- ^ "Wong breezes to national crown". The Straits Times. 24 October 1983. p. 39.
- ^ "Keat And Irene Make It A Husband And Wife Affair". Singapore Monitor. 24 October 1983. p. 28.
- ^ "Shuttlers set for the big showdown". The Straits Times. 12 October 1983. p. 41.
- ^ "Wing Cheok's a soaring success". The Straits Times. 15 October 1984. p. 31.
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