# Syed Modi International Badminton Championships

The Syed Modi International Badminton Championships is an international badminton tournament held annually in India.
It was introduced to the badminton circuit as a BWF Grand Prix event in 2009. Since then the tournament has been annually held in Lucknow at the Babu Banarasi Das Indoor Stadium, although it was temporarily shifted to Hyderabad in 2010. In 2011, it was upgraded to the Grand Prix Gold event. Badminton World Federation launched a new event structure in 2017. This tournament was then announced as a World Tour Super 300 event ever since 2018.

## History

The tournament was inaugurated by Uttar Pradesh Badminton Association in 1991 as the Syed Modi Memorial Badminton Tournament in memory of Commonwealth Games champion Syed Modi.
From its inauguration till 2003, it remained a national-level tournament. In 2004, it was organized as an international event for the first time, which saw some foreign participation.
The tournament was halted from 2005 to 2008 due to a political impasse between the UPBA and the Government of Uttar Pradesh, which ended with relocation of the Uttar Pradesh Badminton Academy.

## Winners

| Year | Men's singles | Women's singles | Men's doubles | Women's doubles | Mixed doubles | Ref |
| 2009 | Chetan Anand | Saina Nehwal | Fauzi Adnan Trikusuma Wardhana | Misaki Matsutomo Ayaka Takahashi | Arun Vishnu Aparna Balan | |
| 2010 | Dionysius Hayom Rumbaka | Zhou Hui | Mohammad Ahsan Bona Septano | Tang Jinhua Xia Huan | Liu Peixuan Tang Jinhua | |
| 2011 | Taufik Hidayat | Ratchanok Intanon | Naoki Kawamae Shoji Sato | Shinta Mulia Sari Yao Lei | Sudket Prapakamol Saralee Thungthongkam | |
| 2012 | Parupalli Kashyap | Lindaweni Fanetri | Ko Sung-hyun Lee Yong-dae | Savitree Amitrapai Sapsiree Taerattanachai | Fran Kurniawan Shendy Puspa Irawati | |
| 2013 | No competition | No competition | No competition | No competition | No competition | No competition |
| 2014 | Xue Song | Saina Nehwal | Li Junhui Liu Yuchen | Chen Qingchen Jia Yifan | Wang Yilyu Huang Yaqiong | |
| 2015 | Parupalli Kashyap | Saina Nehwal | Mathias Boe Carsten Mogensen | Amelia Alicia Anscelly Soong Fie Cho | Riky Widianto Richi Puspita Dili | |
| 2016 | Srikanth Kidambi | Sung Ji-hyun | Goh V Shem Tan Wee Kiong | Jung Kyung-eun Shin Seung-chan | Praveen Jordan Debby Susanto | |
| 2017 | Sameer Verma | P. V. Sindhu | Mathias Boe Carsten Mogensen | Christinna Pedersen Kamilla Rytter Juhl | Pranav Chopra N. Sikki Reddy | |
| 2018 | Sameer Verma | Han Yue | Fajar Alfian Muhammad Rian Ardianto | Chow Mei Kuan Lee Meng Yean | Ou Xuanyi Feng Xueying | |
| 2019 | Wang Tzu-wei | Carolina Marín | He Jiting Tan Qiang | Baek Ha-na Jung Kyung-eun | Rodion Alimov Alina Davletova | |
| 2020 | Cancelled | Cancelled | Cancelled | Cancelled | Cancelled | |
| 2021 | Cancelled | Cancelled | Cancelled | Cancelled | Cancelled | |
| 2022 | Not awarded | P. V. Sindhu | Man Wei Chong Tee Kai Wun | Anna Cheong Teoh Mei Xing | Ishaan Bhatnagar Tanisha Crasto | |
| 2023 | Chi Yu-jen | Nozomi Okuhara | Choong Hon Jian Muhammad Haikal | Rin Iwanaga Kie Nakanishi | Dejan Ferdinansyah Gloria Emanuelle Widjaja | |
| 2024 | Lakshya Sen | P. V. Sindhu | Huang Di Liu Yang | Treesa Jolly Gayatri Gopichand | Dechapol Puavaranukroh Supissara Paewsampran | |
* ↑ This tournament, originally to be played from 17 to 22 November, was later cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic in India.
* ↑ This tournament, originally to be played from 12 to 17 October, was later cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic in India.

## Performance by nations

    As of the finals of the 2024 edition
| Pos. | Nation | MS | WS | MD | WD | XD | Total |
| 1 | India | 7 | 6 | | 1 | 3 | 17 |
| 2 | China | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 11 |
| 3 | Indonesia | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 4 | 10 |
| 4 | Malaysia | | | 3 | 3 | | 6 |
| 5 | Japan | | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 4 |
| 5 | South Korea | | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 4 |
| 5 | Thailand | | 1 | | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 6 | Denmark | | | 2 | 1 | | 3 |
| 7 | Chinese Taipei | 2 | | | | | 2 |
| 8 | Russia | | | | | 1 | 1 |
| 8 | Singapore | | | | 1 | | 1 |
| 8 | Spain | | 1 | | | | 1 |
| Total | Total | 12* | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 64 |
* 2022 not awarded for men's singles because of Covid-19 during the tournament