The 2012
Swiss Open Grand Prix Gold in
badminton
Badminton is a racquet sport played using racket (sports equipment), racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net (device), net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per s ...
was the second grand prix gold and grand prix tournament of the
2012 BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix. The tournament was held in
St. Jakobshalle,
Basel
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,
Switzerland
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from March 13 until March 18, 2012 and had a total purse of $125,000.
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Men's singles
Seeds
# Lee Chong Wei
Lee Chong Wei (; born 21 October 1982) is a Malaysian former professional badminton player. As a singles player, Lee was ranked first worldwide for 349 weeks, including a 199-week streak from 21 August 2008 to 14 June 2012. He is the fifth ...
''(withdrew)''
# Chen Long
Chen Long (; ; born 18 January 1989), is a Chinese former professional badminton player. He is the 2016 Badminton at the Summer Olympics, Olympic champion, two-time BWF World Championships, World champion, and an Badminton Asia Championships, ...
''(semi-final)''
# ''(second round)''
# Chen Jin (champion)
# Lee Hyun-Il
Lee Hyun-il (; born 17 April 1980) is a former badminton player from South Korea. He is a former World and Asian Championships bronze medalist, and was part of South Korean team that won the 2003 Sudirman Cup as well the gold medals at the ...
''(final)''
# Kenichi Tago
is a Japanese former professional badminton player. He is the son of former badminton player Yoshiko Yonekura. In 2010, he reached the final of the All England Open Badminton Championships. En route to the final, he beat three seeded players, i ...
''(withdrew)''
# Nguyen Tien Minh
Nguyễn (阮) (sometimes abbreviated as Ng̃) is the most common surname of the Vietnamese people.
Outside of Vietnam, the surname is commonly rendered without diacritics as ''Nguyen''.
By some estimates 30 to 39 percent of Vietnamese peopl ...
''(third round)''
# Du Pengyu
Du Pengyu (born 22 January 1988) is a Chinese former badminton player. Du specializes in men's singles where he has distinguished himself as one of China's top ranked male players. His earliest major success came at the 2010 Swiss Open Super S ...
''(third round)''
# Simon Santoso
Simon Santoso (born 29 July 1985) is an Indonesian former badminton player. He was two-time SEA Games men's singles champion winning in 2009 and 2011, also featured in Indonesia team that won the men's team title in 2003, 2007, 2009, and 2011. ...
''(withdrew)''
# Taufik Hidayat
Taufik Hidayat (born 10 August 1981) is an Indonesian retired badminton player who is the current Deputy Minister for Youth and Sport of Indonesia. He is a former BWF World Championships, World champion, Badminton at the Summer Olympics, Olymp ...
''(semi-final)''
# Jan Ø. Jørgensen
Jan Østergaard Jørgensen (born 31 December 1987) is a Danish retired badminton player who played for SIF (Skovshoved) in the national league. He won the men's singles title at the 2014 European Badminton Championships, 2014 European Championshi ...
''(third round)''
# Marc Zwiebler
Marc Zwiebler (, born 13 March 1984) is a German former professional badminton player. His highest ranking is 10 in the world. He is a seven-time German National Badminton Championships, German national champion in men's singles. He won gold at ...
''(withdrew)''
# Shon Wan-Ho ''(quarter-final)''
# Hans-Kristian Vittinghus
Hans-Kristian Solberg Vittinghus (born 16 January 1986) is a retired Danish badminton player. He was a member of the winning Denmark team at the 2016 Thomas Cup in Kunshan, China.
Career
Junior
He won 4 junior national titles, 2 in singles ...
''(quarter-final)''
# Tommy Sugiarto ''(second round)''
# Boonsak Ponsana
Boonsak Ponsana (; ; born 22 February 1982) is a Thai badminton player. His younger sister Salakjit Ponsana is also part of the Thailand badminton team. He got a Bachelor of Laws from Sripatum University.
Career
Ponsana competed at the Badmin ...
''(second round)''
Finals
Top half
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Bottom half
Section 5
Section 6
Section 7
Section 8
Women's singles
Seeds
# Wang Yihan
Wang Yihan (born 18 January 1988) is a retired Chinese professional badminton player and former women's singles world champion and Olympic silver medalist. Wang started her career with her coach Wang Pengren at only nine years of age. She w ...
''(second round)''
# Wang Shixian ''(final)''
# Saina Nehwal
Saina Nehwal (; born 17 March 1990) is an Indian badminton player. A former world no. 1, she has won 24 international titles, which includes ten Superseries titles. Although she reached the world's 2nd in 2009, it was only in 2015 that she was ...
(champion)
# Jiang Yanjiao
Jiang Yanjiao (; born 26 June 1986), is a Chinese badminton player from Changzhou. She graduated from the Huaqiao University.
Career
A winner of both the BWF World Junior Championships (2002) and the Asian Junior Championships (2004), Jiang ha ...
''(second round)''
# Juliane Schenk
Juliane Schenk (born 26 November 1982) is a German badminton player. In March 2014 she retired from international play.
Career
In 2001, she won the European Junior Championships in women's singles. 2003 saw her win the women's doubles with N ...
''(quarter-final)''
# Liu Xin ''(quarter-final)''
# Cheng Shao-Chieh
Cheng Shao-chieh (; born 4 January 1986) is a badminton player from Taiwan.
Cheng played badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics for the Republic of China as Chinese Taipei. In women's singles, she defeated Ling Wan Ting of Hong Kong and Jun J ...
''(second round)''
# Ratchanok Inthanon ''(semi-final)''
Finals
Top half
Section 1
Section 2
Bottom half
Section 3
Section 4
Men's doubles
Seeds
# Chai Biao / Guo Zhendong
Guo Zhendong (; born 4 August 1984) is a badminton player from China. , he (along with his partner Xu Chen) was ranked within the top 10 male badminton doubles teams in the world. He competed at the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games.
Career
A men's ...
''(second round)''
# Mohammad Ahsan
Mohammad Ahsan (born 7 September 1987) is an Indonesian retired badminton player affiliated with Djarum club who specializes in the men's doubles. He is a three-time World Champion, three-time season ending finals champion, and Asian Games go ...
/ Bona Septano
Bona Septano (born 22 September 1987) is an Indonesian former badminton player. He currently works as pilot in Indonesian airlines.
Bona Septano concentrates on men's doubles with Mohammad Ahsan. They have competed successfully on the internat ...
''(withdrew)''
# Hirokatsu Hashimoto / Noriyasu Hirata ''(quarter-final)''
# Markis Kido
Markis Kido (11 August 1984 – 14 June 2021) was an Indonesian badminton player specializing in men's doubles. As a former world number 1, he won the discipline's gold medal at the 2006 Badminton World Cup, 2006 World Cup, 2007 BWF World Cham ...
/ Hendra Setiawan
Hendra Setiawan (born 25 August 1984) is an Indonesian retired badminton player. He is an Olympic Games gold medalist, four-time World Champion, two-time Asian Games gold medalist, and two-time All England champion. With these achievements, Se ...
''(second round)''
# Alvent Yulianto
Alvent Yulianto Chandra (born 11 July 1980) is an Indonesian badminton player. Born in Glenmore, Banyuwangi, East Java, he has been playing badminton since he was 10 years old in a club named Suryanaga Gudang Garam Surabaya.
Personal life
On ...
/ Hendra Aprida Gunawan ''(semi-final)''
# Naoki Kawamae / Shoji Sato
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(champion)
# Fang Chieh-Min
Fang Chieh-min (; born 31 January 1986) is a Taiwanese badminton player. He paired with Lee Sheng-mu in men's doubles. The pair won 3 BWF Super Series titles including 2010 Singapore Super Series, 2010 Indonesia Super Series and 2012 Malaysia ...
/ Lee Sheng-Mu ''(final)''
# Hiroyuki Endo
is a retired Japanese badminton player. He competed at the Badminton at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's doubles, 2016 Rio and Badminton at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's doubles, 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics. In 2009, he joined the Unisys ...
/ Kenichi Hayakawa
is a retired Japanese badminton player. He has been a runner-up of the All England three times (2013, 2014 and 2016) along with his partner, Hiroyuki Endo. He competed at the 2010 and 2014 Asian Games.
Career
Hayakawa won the first point in ...
''(semi-final)''
Finals
Top half
Section 1
Section 2
Bottom half
Section 3
Section 4
Women's doubles
Seeds
# Ha Jung-Eun
Ha Jung-eun (; born 26 April 1987) is a women's and mixed doubles badminton player from South Korea. Ha was competed at the 2006, 2010 Asian Games, 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics. Together with the Korean national women's team, they won the Ube ...
/ Kim Min-Jung ''(semi-final)''
# Mizuki Fujii / Reika Kakiiwa ''(quarter-final)''
# Shizuka Matsuo / Mami Naito ''(quarter-final)''
# Miyuki Maeda
is a Japanese international badminton player from the Renesas badminton club and later affiliated with Saishunkan team. She participated at the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games, and also in three Asian Games editions from 2006 to 2014.
Career
Maed ...
/ Satoko Suetsuna ''(first round)''
# Christinna Pedersen
Christinna Pedersen (born 12 May 1986) is a Danish badminton player.
Career
Christinna Pedersen is a right-handed doubles specialist.
From 2008 onwards, Pedersen paired with Joachim Fischer Nielsen in mixed doubles. The pair gained two Euro ...
/ Kamilla Rytter Juhl
Kamilla Rytter Juhl (born 23 November 1983) is a retired Danish badminton player. Juhl is an Olympic silver medalist, World Championship gold medalist and seven times European champion as well.
Career
Rytter Juhl played as a left-handed doub ...
''(quarter-final)''
# Bao Yixin / Zhong Qianxin ''(final)''
# Cheng Wen-Hsing / Chien Yu-Chin ''(quarter-final)''
# Meiliana Jauhari / Greysia Polii
Greysia Polii (; born 11 August 1987) is an Indonesian badminton player specializing in doubles. She won gold medals in the women's doubles at the 2014 Asian Games, at the 2019 SEA Games and at the 2020 Summer Olympics. She also won three bro ...
''(second round)''
Finals
Top half
Section 1
Section 2
Bottom half
Section 3
Section 4
Mixed doubles
Seeds
# Tontowi Ahmad
Tontowi Ahmad (born 18 July 1987) is a retired Indonesian badminton player. He plays for PB. Djarum, a badminton club in Kudus, Central Java and joined the club in 2005. Tontowi Ahmad rose to prominence in the world badminton in 2010 when he pa ...
/ Lilyana Natsir (champion)
# Chen Hung-Ling
Chen Hung-ling (; born 10 February 1986) is a Taiwanese former badminton player.
Chen Hung-ling is a doubles specialist. His best results have come with Cheng Wen-hsing in the mixed doubles, but he routinely competes in the men's doubles with ...
/ Cheng Wen-Hsing ''(quarter-final)''
# Sudket Prapakamol
Sudket Prapakamol (; ; born 8 February 1980) is a badminton player from Thailand. He is a police lieutenant and a sportsman like his brother. He has a Bachelor's degree from the University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce.
Career
He competed i ...
/ Saralee Thoungthongkam
Captain Saralee Thungthongkam (; ; born 13 June 1979) is a Thai retired badminton player. She graduated with a master's degree in Communication Arts from Bangkok University.
Career
Thungthongkam made her debut at the Badminton at the Summer Ol ...
''(final)''
# Thomas Laybourn / Kamilla Rytter Juhl
Kamilla Rytter Juhl (born 23 November 1983) is a retired Danish badminton player. Juhl is an Olympic silver medalist, World Championship gold medalist and seven times European champion as well.
Career
Rytter Juhl played as a left-handed doub ...
''(withdrew)''
# Chan Peng Soon
Chan Peng Soon (born 27 April 1988) is a Malaysian former badminton player specialised in the mixed doubles event. He has had a partnership with Goh Liu Ying where they have been consistently ranked among the top 10 mixed doubles pair in th ...
/ Goh Liu Ying
Goh Liu Ying (; born 30 May 1989) is a Malaysian former badminton player. She had been consistently ranked among the top 10 mixed doubles player in the world with her partner, Chan Peng Soon. Together, they were ranked as high as world No. ...
''(quarter-final)''
# Songphon Anugritayawon / Kunchala Voravichitchaikul
Kunchala Voravichitchaikul (; born 14 November 1984) is an internationally elite badminton player from Thailand. She competed at the 2006, 2010 and 2014 Asian Games.
Kunchala Voravichitchaikul is a doubles specialist who is paired with Duangano ...
''(second round)''
# Michael Fuchs / Birgit Michels
Birgit Michels ( Overzier; born 28 September 1984) is a German badminton player. She competed for Germany at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics
The 2012 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London ...
''(first round)''
# Valiyaveetil Diju / Jwala Gutta ''(first round)''
Finals
Top half
Section 1
Section 2
Bottom half
Section 3
Section 4
References
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Swiss Open (badminton)
Swiss Open Grand Prix Gold
Swiss Open Grand Prix Gold
Sports competitions in Basel
BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix