Syed Modi International Badminton Championships 2018

The Syed Modi International Badminton Championship is an HSBC BWF World Tour Super 300 tournament and is named in memory of the 1982 Commonwealth Games men’s singles champion Syed Modi.  

The Syed Modi International Badminton Championship is an HSBC BWF World Tour Super 300 tournament.  The tournament was inaugurated by the Uttar Pradesh Badminton Association (UPBA) in 1991 as the ‘Syed Modi Memorial Badminton Tournament' in memory of the 1982 Commonwealth Games men’s singles champion Syed Modi.  Held from 1991 to 2003 as a national level tournament, it was then hosted as an international tournament in 2004 but did not continue being hosted until it became part of the BWF Grand Prix level series in 2009. From then on it was hosted annually as an international tournament and was upgraded to a BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament in 2011 where it has been hosted in Lucknow since then.   

The tournament is one of two HSBC BWF World Tour tournaments being hosted in India, with the other being the India Open, a Super 500 level tournament.   Local heroes have won events in the international since 2009. Saina Nehwal, the Commonwealth Games Champion won the women’s singles in the 2009, 2014 & 2015 editions. In 2017, the tournament had an all-Indian semi-final with Sameer Verma taking the men’s singles title.   

In 2017, P. V. Sindhu continued her world-class performances and took the women’s singles title and Pranaav Chopra/Reddy N. Sikki took the mixed doubles title.

Prize money :

The total prize money for this tournament is US$150,000. Distribution of prize money will be in accordance with BWF regulations.

Men's singles	Women's singles	Men's doubles	Women's doubles	Mixed doubles
Srikanth Kidambi (Withdrew)	P. V. Sindhu (Withdrew)	Kim Astrup / Anders Skaarup Rasmussen	Misaki Matsutomo / Ayaka Takahashi	Pranav Chopra / N. Sikki Reddy
Prannoy Kumar	Saina Nehwal	Fajar Alfian / Muhammad Rian Ardianto	Della Destiara Haris / Rizki Amelia Pradipta	Evgenij Dremin / Evgenia Dimova
Sameer Verma	Sayaka Takahashi (Withdrew)	Takuto Inoue / Yuki Kaneko (Withdrew)	Chow Mei Kuan / Lee Meng Yean	Chen Tang Jie / Peck Yen Wei (Withdrew)
B. Sai Praneeth	Han Yue	Hiroyuki Endo / Yuta Watanabe	Ashwini Ponnappa / N. Sikki Reddy	Rinov Rivaldy / Pitha Haningtyas Mentari
Misha Zilberman (Withdrew)	Zhang Yiman	Mathias Boe / Carsten Mogensen	Ekaterina Bolotova / Alina Davletova	Alfian Eko Prasetya / Marsheilla Gischa Islami
Lu Guangzu	Dinar Dyah Ayustine	Han Chengkai / Zhou Haodong	Vivian Hoo Kah Mun / Yap Cheng Wen	Satwiksairaj Rankireddy / Ashwini Ponnappa
Sourabh Verma	Li Xuerui	Vladimir Ivanov / Ivan Sozonov	Meghana Jakkampudi / Poorvisha S. Ram	Nipitphon Phuangphuapet / Savitree Amitrapai
Sitthikom Thammasin	Rituparna Das	Satwiksairaj Rankireddy / Chirag Shetty	Ni Ketut Mahadewi Istirani / Virni Putri	Tontowi Ahmad / Della Destiara Haris (Withdrew)