List of All England women's singles champions
Location | Birmingham United Kingdom |
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Venue | Arena Birmingham |
Governing body | NEC Group |
Created | 1900 |
Editions | Total: 108 Open era (1980): 41 |
Prize money | $59,500 (2021) |
Trophy | Perpetual Challenge Bowl |
Website | [1] |
Most titles | |
Amateur era | 10: Judy Devlin |
Open era | 4: Susi Susanti |
Most consecutive titles | |
Amateur era | 5: Judy Devlin |
Open era | 3: Ye Zhaoying 3: Xie Xingfang |
Current champion | |
Nozomi Okuhara – 2021 (Second title) |
The All England Open Badminton Championships is an annual British badminton tournament created in 1899. For four decades beginning 1954, the Championships was held at the Wembley Arena, London but since 1994, it has been played at the Arena Birmingham in the city of Birmingham, United Kingdom.[1] The Ladies' Singles was first contested in 1900.[2] Below is the list of the winners at the All England Open Badminton Championships in ladies' singles. The tournament was cancelled between 1915–1919 because of World War I, and between 1940–1946 because of World War II.
History[]
In the Amateur Era, Judy Devlin (1954, 1957-1958, 1960–1964, 1966-1967) holds the record for the most titles in the Ladies' Singles, winning All England ten times. Devlin also holds the record for most consecutive titles with five from 1960 to 1964.
Since the Open Era of badminton began in late 1979[3][4] with the inclusion of professional badminton players from around the world in 1980, Susi Susanti (1990-1991, 1993-1994) holds the record for the most Ladies' Singles titles with four. Ye Zhaoying (1997-1999) and Xie Xingfang (2005–2007) share the record for most consecutive victories with three.
This event was won without losing a single game in the entire tournament during the Open Era as many as ten times. The first to accomplish this was Lene Køppen who won the very first Open Era edition in 1980, followed by Zhang Ailing in 1982, consecutively from 1984 to 1986 by Li Lingwei, Han Aiping and Kim Yun-ja respectively, Gu Jiaming in 1988, Zhou Mi in 2003, Xie Xingfang in 2005 and 2007 and Wang Shixian in 2014.
Lene Køppen is the only player in history to reach the All England Open Badminton Ladies' Singles Final in both the Amateur and Open Era. She managed to do so a total of four times, winning in the last and first editions of the Amateur and Open Era respectively and also losing once each in both Era.
Finalists[]
Amateur era[]
Open era[]
Year | Country | Champions | Country | Runners–up | Score |
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1980 | DEN | Lene Køppen | INA | Verawaty Fajrin | 11–2, 11–6 |
1981 | KOR | Sun-ae Hwang | DEN | Lene Køppen | 11–1, 11–2 |
1982 | CHN | Ailing Zhang | CHN | Lingwei Li | 11–4, 11–6 |
1983 | CHN | Ailing Zhang | CHN | Jianqiu Wu | 11–5, 10–12, 12–9 |
1984 | CHN | Lingwei Li | CHN | Aiping Han | 11–5, 11–8 |
1985 | CHN | Aiping Han | CHN | Lingwei Li | 11–7, 12–10 |
1986 | KOR | Yun-ja Kim | CHN | Ping Qian | 11–6, 12–11 |
1987 | DEN | Kirsten Larsen | CHN | Ping Qian | 9–7 (retired) |
1988 | CHN | Jiaming Gu | KOR | Young-suk Lee | 11–2, 11–2 |
1989 | CHN | Lingwei Li | INA | Susi Susanti | 11–8, 11–4 |
1990 | INA | Susi Susanti | CHN | Hua Huang | 12–11, 11–1 |
1991 | INA | Susi Susanti | INA | Sarwendah Kusumawardhani | 0–11, 11–2, 11–6 |
1992 | CHN | Jiuhong Tang | KOR | Soo-hyun Bang | 9–12, 12–10, 11–1 |
1993 | INA | Susi Susanti | KOR | Soo-hyun Bang | 4–11, 11–4, 11–1 |
1994 | INA | Susi Susanti | CHN | Zhaoying Ye | 11–5, 11–9 |
1995 | SWE | Xiaoqing Lim | DEN | Camilla Martin | 11–9, 10–12, 11–3 |
1996 | KOR | Soo-hyun Bang | CHN | Zhaoying Ye | 11–1, 11–1 |
1997 | CHN | Zhaoying Ye | CHN | Zhichao Gong | 11–3, 11–1 |
1998 | CHN | Zhaoying Ye | CHN | Ning Zhang | 11–5, 11–8 |
1999 | CHN | Zhaoying Ye | CHN | Yun Dai | 9–11, 11–5, 11–1 |
2000 | CHN | Zhichao Gong | CHN | Yun Dai | 11–5, 8–11, 11–5 |
2001 | CHN | Zhichao Gong | CHN | Mi Zhou | 11–7, 11–3 |
2002 | DEN | Camilla Martin | CHN | Ruina Gong | 7–5, 8–6, 7–3 |
2003 | CHN | Mi Zhou | CHN | Xingfang Xie | 11–6, 11–5 |
2004 | CHN | Ruina Gong | CHN | Mi Zhou | 11–7, 11–7 |
2005 | CHN | Xingfang Xie | CHN | Ning Zhang | 11–3, 11–9 |
2006 | CHN | Xingfang Xie | CHN | Ning Zhang | 11–3, 9–11, 11–3 |
2007 | CHN | Xingfang Xie | FRA | Hongyan Pi | 21–6, 21–13 |
2008 | DEN | Tine Rasmussen | CHN | Lan Lu | 21–11, 18–21, 22–20 |
2009 | CHN | Yihan Wang | DEN | Tine Rasmussen | 21–19, 21–23, 21–11 |
2010 | DEN | Tine Rasmussen | CHN | Yihan Wang | 21–14, 18–21, 21–19 |
2011 | CHN | Shixian Wang | JPN | Eriko Hirose | 24–22, 21–18 |
2012 | CHN | Xuerui Li | CHN | Yihan Wang | 21–13, 21–19 |
2013 | DEN | Tine Rasmussen | THA | Ratchanok Intanon | 21–14, 16–21, 21–10 |
2014 | CHN | Shixian Wang | CHN | Xuerui Li | 21–19, 21–18 |
2015 | ESP | Carolina Marín | IND | Saina Nehwal | 16–21, 21–14, 21–7 |
2016 | JPN | Nozomi Okuhara | CHN | Shixian Wang | 21–11, 16–21, 21–19 |
2017 | TPE | Tzu-ying Tai | THA | Ratchanok Intanon | 21–16, 22–20 |
2018 | TPE | Tzu-ying Tai | JPN | Akane Yamaguchi | 22–20, 21–13 |
2019 | CHN | Yufei Chen | TPE | Tzu-ying Tai | 21–17, 21–17 |
2020 | TPE | Tzu-ying Tai | CHN | Yufei Chen | 21–19, 21–15 |
2021 | JPN | Nozomi Okuhara | THA | Pornpawee Chochuwong | 21–12, 21–16 |
Statistics[]
Multiple champions[]
Bold indicates active players.
Champions by country[]
Rank | Country | Amateur era | Open era | All-time | First title | Last title | First champion | Last champion |
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1 | England (ENG) | 39 | 0 | 39 | 1900 | 1978 | Ethel Warneford Thomson | Gillian Gilks |
2 | China (CHN) | 0 | 22 | 22 | 1982 | 2019 | Ailing Zhang | Yufei Chen |
3 | Denmark (DEN) | 8 | 6 | 14 | 1947 | 2013 | Marie Ussing | Tine Rasmussen |
4 | United States (USA) | 12 | 0 | 12 | 1954 | 1967 | Judy Devlin | |
5 | Japan (JPN) | 6 | 2 | 8 | 1969 | 2021 | Hiroe Yuki | Nozomi Okuhara |
6 | Indonesia (INA) | 0 | 4 | 4 | 1990 | 1994 | Susi Susanti | |
7 | Chinese Taipei (TPE) | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2017 | 2020 | Tzu-ying Tai | |
Sweden (SWE) | 2 | 1 | 1968 | 1995 | Eva Twedberg | Xiaoqing Lim | ||
South Korea (KOR) | 0 | 3 | 1981 | 1996 | Sun-ae Hwang | Soo-hyun Bang | ||
10 | Canada (CAN) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1939 | Dorothy Walton | ||
Spain (ESP) | 0 | 1 | 2015 | Carolina Marín |
Multiple finalists[]
Bold indicates active players.
Italic indicates players who never won the championship.
Rank | Country | Player | Amateur era | Open era | All-time |
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1 | USA | Judy Devlin | 13 | 0 | 13 |
2 | ENG | Margaret Larminie | 11 | 0 | 11 |
3 | ENG | Ethel Warneford Thomson | 7 | 0 | 7 |
4 | ENG | Meriel Lucas | 6 | 0 | 6 |
ENG | Marjorie Barrett | 6 | 0 | ||
6 | JPN | Hiroe Yuki | 5 | 0 | 5 |
ENG | Gillian Gilks | 5 | 0 | ||
INA | Susi Susanti | 0 | 5 | ||
CHN | Zhaoying Ye | 0 | 5 | ||
10 | ENG | Lavinia Clara Radeglia | 4 | 0 | 4 |
ENG | Kitty McKane | 4 | 0 | ||
ENG | Leoni Kingsbury | 4 | 0 | ||
ENG | Betty Uber | 4 | 0 | ||
DEN | Aase Schiøtt Jacobsen | 4 | 0 | ||
DEN | Tonny Ahm | 4 | 0 | ||
ENG | Ursula Smith | 4 | 0 | ||
DEN | Lene Køppen | 2 | 2 | ||
CHN | Lingwei Li | 0 | 4 | ||
CHN | Xingfang Xie | 0 | 4 | ||
TPE | Tzu-ying Tai | 0 | 4 | ||
DEN | Tine Rasmussen | 0 | 4 | ||
22 | ENG | Dorothea Katharina Douglass | 3 | 0 | 3 |
ENG | Alice Woodroffe | 3 | 0 | ||
ENG | Thelma Kingsbury | 3 | 0 | ||
JPN | Noriko Nakayama | 3 | 0 | ||
KOR | Soo-hyun Bang | 0 | 3 | ||
CHN | Zhichao Gong | 0 | 3 | ||
CHN | Ning Zhang | 0 | 3 | ||
CHN | Mi Zhou | 0 | 3 | ||
CHN | Yihan Wang | 0 | 3 | ||
CHN | Shixian Wang | 0 | 3 | ||
32 | ENG | Diana Doveton | 2 | 0 | 2 |
DEN | Marie Ussing | 2 | 0 | ||
DEN | Kirsten Thorndahl | 2 | 0 | ||
SWE | Eva Twedberg | 2 | 0 | ||
ENG | Margaret Beck | 2 | 0 | ||
JPN | Saori Kondo | 2 | 0 | ||
CHN | Ailing Zhang | 0 | 2 | ||
CHN | Aiping Han | 0 | 2 | ||
CHN | Ping Qian | 0 | 2 | ||
DEN | Camilla Martin | 0 | 2 | ||
CHN | Yun Dai | 0 | 2 | ||
CHN | Ruina Gong | 0 | 2 | ||
CHN | Xuerui Li | 0 | 2 | ||
CHN | Yufei Chen | 0 | 2 | ||
THA | Ratchanok Intanon | 0 | 2 | ||
JPN | Nozomi Okuhara | 0 | 2 |
Notes[]
See also[]
- List of All England men's singles champions
- List of All England men's doubles champions
- List of All England women's doubles champions
- List of All England mixed doubles champions
References[]
- ^ "The History of All England Championships". Archived from the original on 26 June 2007. Retrieved 2007-06-15.
- ^ International Badminton … the first 75 years. Badminton World Federation. p. 80. Archived from the original on 24 April 2016. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
- ^ "All England Open History: long trousers to Lin Dan". www.allenglandbadminton.com. 25 February 2015. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
- ^ Brahms, Bernd-Volker (17 January 2014). Badminton Handbook. Bernd-Volker Brahms. p. 1972. ISBN 9781782553540. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
External links[]
- All England Champions 1899-2007
- BadmintonEngland.co.uk
- badmintoneurope.com
- Pat Davis: The Encyclopaedia of Badminton. Robert Hale, London, 1987, ISBN 0-7090-2796-6
- All England Open Badminton Championships