The 2012 U.S. Open Grand Prix Gold was the seventh grand prix gold and grand prix tournament of the

2012 BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix The 2012 BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix was the sixth season of BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix. Schedule Below is the schedule released by Badminton World Federation: Results Winners Performances by countries Tabulated below are the ...

. The tournament was held in Orange County Badminton Club,

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, United States July 2 until July 7, 2012 and had a total purse of $120,000.

Men's singles

Seeds

Takuma Ueda is a male Japanese badminton player from the Unisys team. He was the victor of the final match against Malaysia over Liew Daren in the 2014 Thomas Cup, which saw Japan win the tournament for the first time and in their debut final. He compete ...

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Henri Hurskainen Henri Mikael Hurskainen (born 13 September 1986) is a Swedish badminton player who competed for Sweden at the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics. Hurskainen has won several gold and silver medals in badminton championships. Hurskainen was born in Em ...

''(second round)'' # Vladimir Ivanov (champion) #

Tan Chun Seang Tan Chun Seang (born 22 August 1986) is a Malaysian badminton player specializing in men's singles. His best achievement was won the BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix, Grand Prix title at the 2013 Canada Open Grand Prix, 2013 Canada Open by ...

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Niluka Karunaratne Niluka Karunaratne ( Sinhala: නිලූක කරුණාරත්න; Tamil: நிலுக கருணாரத்ன) (born 13 February 1985) is a Sri Lankan badminton player who has competed at the Olympics in 2012, 2016 and 2020. His ...

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Chou Tien-chen Chou Tien-chen (; born 8 January 1990) is a Taiwanese badminton player. He became the first local shuttler in 17 years to win the men's singles title of the Chinese Taipei Open in 2016 since Indonesian-born Fung Permadi won it in 1999. He wo ...

''(quarter-final)'' # Michael Lahnsteiner ''(third round)'' # Chetan Anand ''(third round)'' #

Misha Zilberman Misha Zilberman (; ; born 25 January 1989) is an Olympic badminton player. Born in Russia, he competed for Israel at the 2012, 2016, 2020 and 2024 Summer Olympics, coming in 33rd, 14th, and 15th respectively, with his 2024 results still to be ...

''(first round)'' # Christian Lind Thomsen ''(first round)'' #

Ivan Sozonov Ivan Andreyevich Sozonov (; born 6 July 1989) is a Russian badminton player. He competed for Russia at the 2012, 2016, and 2020 Summer Olympics. His current partner is Vladimir Ivanov. The duo's victories at the 2014 European Championships and ...

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Arvind Bhat Arvind Bhat (born 7 June 1979) is a male badminton player from Bangalore, India. Career Arvind started his career in Youth centre at the age of 11 in 1991. He proved his mettle at a young age by winning many age group level events at the state ...

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Joachim Persson Joachim Persson (born 23 May 1983) is a former badminton player from Denmark. Career Persson was born in Denmark but his family moved to Germany in his early years. He began to playing badminton in Trittau, Germany together with his parents. ...

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Sattawat Pongnairat Sattawat Pongnairat (; ; born May 8, 1990) is an American badminton player who competed at 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He trained at the Orange County Badminton club, and in 2015, he won a gold medal in men's doubles with tea ...

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Luka Wraber Luka Wraber (born 7 September 1990) is an Austrian badminton player, affiliated with the ASKÖ Neudörfl club. He started playing badminton at aged 8, and joined the Austrian national badminton team in 2008. He competed at the 2015 and 2019 Eur ...

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Edwin Ekiring Edwin Ekiring (born 22 December 1986) is a Ugandan badminton player, nicknamed "The Black Pearl". He is tall and weighs . Career At the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia, Ekiring competed in the men's singles as well as the mix ...

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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

Pai Hsiao-ma Pai Hsiao-ma (; born 7 May 1986), formerly known as Pai Min-jie, is a Taiwanese badminton player. She competed at the 2006, 2010 and 2014 Asian Games. She presented United States at her debut on 2023 BWF World Senior Championships hold in Jeonju, ...

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Neslihan Yigit Neslihan is a Turkish feminine given name that means 'noble'. Notable people with the name include: * Neslihan Arın (born 1994), Turkish badminton player * Neslihan Atagül (born 1992), Turkish actress * Neslihan Çalışkan (born 1997), Turkish h ...

''(withdrew)'' # Michelle Chan Ky ''(first round)'' #

Anastasia Prokopenko Anastasia Prokopenko (; born 17 May 1986) is a Russian badminton player. She competed for Russia at the Badminton at the 2012 Summer Olympics, 2012 Summer Olympics in the women's singles event. Achievements BWF International Challenge/Series ...

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Finals

Top half

Section 1

Section 2

Bottom half

Section 3

Section 4

Men's doubles

Seeds

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 ...

(champion) # Vladimir Ivanov /

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Tony Gunawan Tony Gunawan (; born April 9, 1975) is an Indonesian-born American former badminton player. He gained several international achievements for Indonesia and later for the United States, including an Olympic gold medal and world champion title. Ca ...

Howard Bach Howard Bach (born February 22, 1979) is a Vietnamese-American male badminton player from the United States. He was the 2005 world champion in the men's doubles with Tony Gunawan. Early life He was born in Vietnam, Howard Bach came to the U.S. ...

''(semi-final)'' # Yoshiteru Hirobe / Kenta Kazuno ''(final)''

Finals

Top half

Section 1

Section 2

Bottom half

Section 3

Section 4

Women's doubles

Seeds

Misaki Matsutomo is a Japanese badminton player who is a doubles specialist. She won the gold medal at the 2016 Summer Olympic women's doubles alongside Ayaka Takahashi. Despite playing doubles, she was also a finalist in girls' singles at the 2010 BWF World ...

Ayaka Takahashi is a retired Japanese badminton player who was affiliated with Unisys badminton team. She is an Olympic Games gold medalist, two-time Asian Champion, two-time Asian Games silver medalist, and World Championship bronze medalist. Playing for the ...

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Valeria Sorokina Valeria Mihailovna Sorokina (; born 29 March 1984) is a badminton player from Russia. Together with her doubles partner Nina Vislova, she is the only Russian Olympic medalist in badminton. Career She won the gold medal at the 2010 European Badmi ...

Nina Vislova Nina Gennadyevna Vislova (; born 4 October 1986) is a badminton player from Russia. Along with her partner Valeria Sorokina, she is the only Russian Olympic medalist in badminton. Career Vislova won four medals at the European Junior Badminton ...

''(final)'' # Eva Lee /

Paula Lynn Obanana Paula Lynn Cao Hok (née Obañana; born March 19, 1985) is a Filipino-American badminton player who was originally from Dumaguete, Philippines. In 2015, she won the women's doubles gold medals at the Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada partnere ...

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Nicole Grether Nicole Grether (born 17 October 1974) is a badminton player from Germany. She competed at the 2000 Sydney and 2004 Athens Summer Olympics. Career Grether competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in women's doubles with partner Juliane ...

Charmaine Reid Charmaine Reid (born November 3, 1973) is a Canadian badminton player from Calgary. She competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens in both singles and doubles. Reid won five Canadian National Championships between 2005 and 2007, two of them ...

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Finals

Top half

Section 1

Section 2

Bottom half

Section 3

Section 4

Mixed doubles

Seeds

# Alexandr Nikolaenko /

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Toby Ng Tobias Ng (born 8 October 1985) is a Canadian badminton player. Born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, Ng's father is from Hong Kong and his mother from Macau. He started playing badminton at the Kensington Community Centre, when he was ...

/ Grace Gao ''(semi-final)'' #

''(final)'' # Roman Zirnwald / Elisabeth Baldauf ''(second round)''

Finals

Top half

Section 1

Section 2

Bottom half

Section 3

Section 4

References

{{U.S. Open Badminton Championships U.S. Open Badminton Championships U.S. Open Grand Prix Gold BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix U.S. Open Grand Prix