The 2016 Brazil Open Grand Prix was the twelfth Grand Prix's badminton tournament of the
2016 BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix The 2016 BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix was the tenth season of the BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix.
Schedule
Below is the schedule released by Badminton World Federation
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. The tournament was held at the
Costa Cavalcante
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in
Foz do Iguaçu
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, Brazil on 30 August – 4 September 2016 and had a total purse of $55,000.
Men's singles
Seeds
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Zulfadli Zulkiffli
Zulfadli bin Zulkiffli (born 11 February 1993) is a Malaysian badminton player. He was the boys' singles gold medalist at the 2011 Asian and World Junior Championships, also at the Commonwealth Youth Games.
In 2018, Zulkiffli was found guil ...
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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 ...
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Ygor Coelho
Ygor Coelho de Oliveira (; born 24 November 1996) is a Brazilian badminton player. He won the Pan Am Junior Badminton Championships six times in the boys' singles and four times in the mixed doubles event with Lohaynny Vicente. Oliveira placed ...
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Anand Pawar
Anand Pawar (born 18 July 1986) is a male Indian badminton player who has represented India in the Men's World Team Championships (Thomas Cup) & World Mixed Team Championships ( Sudirman Cup ) & Asian Badminton Championships. He is a Bronze Med ...
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Finals
Top half
Section 1
Section 2
Bottom half
Section 3
Section 4
Women's singles
Seeds
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Beatriz Corrales
Beatriz Corrales Ocaña (; born 3 December 1992) is a Spanish badminton player. She was the women's singles bronze medalist at the 2015 European Games, and the silver medalist at the 2018 Mediterranean Games.
Achievements
European Games
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(champion)
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Airi Mikkelä
AiRI (born September 13) (previously known under the stage name UR@N) is a Japanese singer signed to Lantis. She is best known for performing "Dreamer", the opening theme to the anime ''Tari Tari'', and the song "Dream Scramble", which is used ...
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Lohaynny Vicente ''(withdrew)''
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Fabiana Silva
Fabiana da Silva (born 27 July 1988) is a Brazilian badminton player. She was the women's singles champion at the 2018 South American Games. She also won the bronze medal in the women's doubles at the 2019 Pan American Games. Silva competed in th ...
''(semifinal)''
Finals
Top half
Section 1
Section 2
Bottom half
Section 3
Section 4
Men's doubles
Seeds
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Manu Attri
Manu Attri (born 31 December 1992) is an Indian badminton player who currently plays men's and mixed doubles. He partners with Jishnu Sanyal for men's doubles events and previously partnered with B. Sumeeth Reddy. For mixed doubles events, he p ...
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B. Sumeeth Reddy
B. Sumeeth Reddy (born 26 September 1991) is an Indian former badminton player. He was part of Indian team that clinched the gold medals in the Badminton at the 2016 South Asian Games, 2016 and Badminton at the 2019 South Asian Games, 2019 Sout ...
''(withdrew)''
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Matijs Dierickx
Mattijs Dierickx (born 18 November 1991) is a Belgian male badminton player.
Achievements BWF International Challenge/Series
''Men's Doubles''
: BWF International Challenge tournament
: BWF International Series tournament
: BWF Future Serie ...
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Freek Golinski
Freek Golinski (born 19 June 1991) is a Belgian badminton player. He competed in the 2015 European Games. Golinski has collected 12 Belgian National Championships title, 10 in the men's doubles, and 2 in the mixed doubles. He has won some intern ...
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Jones Ralfy Jansen
Jones Ralfy Jansen (born 28 April 1992) is an Indonesian-born German badminton player who currently represents Germany. He was a former PB Djarum players and has joined that club in 2007. In 2010, he awarded as the best Djarum player. He won his ...
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Josche Zurwonne
Josche Zurwonne (born 23 March 1989) is a German badminton player. He started playing badminton at age 8, and joined the Germany national badminton team in 2008.
Achievements
BWF Grand Prix
The BWF Grand Prix has two levels, the BWF Grand P ...
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Vilson Vattanirappel
Vilson James-Lukas Vattanirappel (born 4 November 1992) is an Austrian badminton player.
Achievements
BWF International Challenge/Series
''Men's singles''
''Men's doubles''
''Mixed doubles''
: BWF International Challenge tournament
: B ...
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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 ...
''(second round)''
Finals
Top half
Section 1
Section 2
Bottom half
Section 3
Section 4
Women's doubles
Seeds
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Barbara Bellenberg
Barbara Bellenberg (born 19 July 1993) is a German badminton player.
Achievements
BWF Grand Prix (1 title)
The BWF Grand Prix had two levels, the Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold. It was a series of badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Ba ...
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Eva Janssens
Eva Maria Joann Janssens (born 16 July 1996) is a German badminton player. In 2015, she won gold and bronze medals at the European Junior Badminton Championships in mixed & girls' doubles events.
Achievements
European Junior Championships
' ...
(champion)
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Daniela Macias /
Danica Nishimura ''(withdrew)''
Finals
Draws
Mixed doubles
Seeds
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Pranaav Jerry Chopra /
N. Sikki Reddy (champion)
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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 ...
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Rachel Honderich
Rachel Honderich (born 21 April 1996) is a Canadian badminton player from Toronto, Ontario. She has been one of the top ranked women's individual and doubles player on the continent and a contender in major international competitions. She is a vi ...
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Hugo Arthuso
Hugo Lemos Arthuso (born 4 May 1987) is a Brazilian male badminton player. He competed at the Pan American Games in 2011 and 2015.
Career
In 2011, he became the champion at the Bill Graham Miami International tournament in men's doubles event w ...
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Fabiana Silva
Fabiana da Silva (born 27 July 1988) is a Brazilian badminton player. She was the women's singles champion at the 2018 South American Games. She also won the bronze medal in the women's doubles at the 2019 Pan American Games. Silva competed in th ...
''(second round)''
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Diego Mini
Diego Mini Cuadros (born 13 April 1999) is a Peruvian badminton player. He won the bronze at the 2016 Pan Am Badminton Championships in the mixed doubles and team event. Teamed up with Zornoza, they lost in the semi-final round to Canadian pair ...
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Luz Maria Zornoza ''(withdrew)''
Finals
Top half
Section 1
Section 2
Bottom half
Section 3
Section 4
External links
Tournament Link
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