The 2016 Scottish Open Grand Prix was the 20th 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 The Badminton World Federation (BWF) is the international governi ...

. The tournament was held at

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23–27 November 2016 and had a total purse of $55,000.

Men's singles

Seeds

Hsu Jen-hao Hsu Jen-hao ( Chinese: 許仁豪; born 26 October 1991) is a Taiwanese badminton player. Career In 2012, he competed at the London 2012 Olympic Games in the men's singles event, but he did not advance to the next round after being defeated i ...

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Anders Antonsen Anders Antonsen (born 27 April 1997) is a Danish badminton player. He won the gold medal at the 2015 European Junior Championships in the boys singles event, and at the same year was awarded the European Young Player of the Year. Together with th ...

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Emil Holst Emil Holst (born 9 January 1991) is a Danish badminton player. He competed at the 2015 European Games and won a silver medal in the men's singles. Achievements European Games ''Men's singles'' European Junior Championships ''Boys' singl ...

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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 ...

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Raul Must Raul Must (born November 9, 1987) is a badminton player from Estonia. He is a four time Olympian representing Estonia at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, 2012 London Olympics, 2016 Rio Olympics and also at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. Must was a me ...

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Sourabh Varma Sourabh Verma (born 30 December 1992) is an Indian badminton player. He is a three time men's singles title Champion at the Indian National Championships. Verma reached a career high world ranking of no. 28 in December 2019. Career overview S ...

''(quarterfinals)'' # Lucas Corvee ''(third round)'' #

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 ...

''(first round)'' # Lucas Claerbout ''(third round)'' #

Thomas Rouxel Thomas Rouxel (born 26 May 1991) is a French badminton player affiliated with Chambly Oise club. In 2016, he won the silver medal at the European Men's Team Championships in Kazan, Russia. Career Rouxel helped the team to win silver in the ...

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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 ...

''(withdrew)'' # Kim Bruun ''(third round)'' #

Kieran Merrilees Kieran Merrilees (born 12 September 1989) is a Scottish badminton player from BC Adliswil Zurich. He represented his country at the 2010, 2014, and 2018 Commonwealth Games. Merrilees educated retail management and marketing at the Open Univers ...

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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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Soong Joo Ven Soong Joo Ven (; born 19 May 1995) is a Malaysian badminton player. He was part of the Malaysian team that won gold in the 2011 BWF World Junior Championships mixed team event. Career 2011-2017 He won silver medal at the 2012 Asia Junior ...

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Nick Fransman Nick Fransman (born 28 February 1992) is a Dutch badminton player. Plays for BC Smashing in Wijchen, he won the 2009 national junior titles in singles, men's doubles and mixed doubles. Fransman represented his country compete at the 2010 Summer Y ...

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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

Natalia Koch Rohde Natalia Koch Rohde (born 1 August 1995) is a Danish badminton player. Achievements BWF International Challenge/Series ''Women's singles'' : BWF International Challenge tournament : BWF International Series tournament : BWF Future Series ...

''(quarterfinals)'' # Delphine Lansac ''(withdrew)'' #

Mette Poulsen Mette Poulsen (born 14 June 1993) is a Danish badminton player. She was the girls' doubles gold medalist at the 2011 European Junior Championships, and the women's singles bronze medalist at the 2017 European Championships. Poulsen helped the n ...

(champion) # Tanvi Lad ''(first round)'' #

Mia Blichfeldt Mia Blichfeldt (born 19 August 1997) is a Danish badminton player. She won the gold medals at the 2015 European Junior Championships in the girls' singles event, and later at the 2019 Minsk European Games in the women's singles event. Caree ...

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Sabrina Jaquet Sabrina Jaquet (born 21 June 1987) is a former Swiss badminton player. She won a bronze medal at the 2017 European Championships. Jaquet competed at the 2012, 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics. Jaquet retired after the 2020 Olympics. Achievement ...

''(final)'' # Elisabeth Baldauf ''(quarterfinals)'' # Julie Finne-Ipsen ''(semifinals)''

Finals

Top half

Section 1

Section 2

Bottom half

Section 3

Section 4

Men's doubles

Seeds

# Mathias Christiansen / David Daugaard (champion) #

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 Series ...

/ Freek Golinski ''(first round)'' # Raphael Beck /

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Liao Kuan-hao Liao Kuan-hao (; born 7 October 1990) is a male Taiwanese badminton player. He competed at the 2014 Asian Games. Achievements BWF Grand Prix (1 runner-up) The BWF Grand Prix has two levels: Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold. It is a series ...

Lu Chia-pin Lu Chia-pin (; born 24 February 1990) is a Taiwanese badminton player. In 2013, he competed at the Summer Universiade in Kazan, Russia, and won a bronze medal in the team event. Achievements East Asian Games ''Men's doubles'' BWF World ...

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Akshay Dewalkar Akshay Dewalkar (born 2 July 1988) is an Indian badminton player. He was the men's doubles National Champion together with Pranav Chopra in 2013 and 2015. Dewalkar was the men's team gold medalists at the 2006 and 2016 South Asian Games, also ...

/ Kona Tarun ''(first round)'' #

Joshua Magee Joshua Magee (born 3 November 1994) is an Irish badminton player. He started playing badminton at the age of six in Raphoe club, and was selected to join the national team in 2014. He competed at the 2015 and 2019 European Games, and in 2015, h ...

Sam Magee Samuel Magee (born 9 January 1990) is a retired Irish badminton player. He won the 2009 European Junior Championships in the boys' doubles event at Milan, Italy with his partner Sylvain Grosjean of France. Sam Magee was a bronze medalists at th ...

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/ Shivam Sharma ''(second round)'' # Matthew Nottingham /

Harley Towler Harley Towler (born 11 December 1992) is a badminton player from England. He started playing badminton at age 7. In 2012 and 2013, he became Loughborough Sportsman of the Year. He was educated at the William Farr School and graduated from Loug ...

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Finals

Top half

Section 1

Section 2

Bottom half

Section 3

Section 4

Women's doubles

Seeds

Eefje Muskens Eefje Muskens (born 17 June 1989), is a Dutch badminton player who specializes in doubles. Her current partner for women's doubles is Selena Piek. She won the 2014 and 2015 editions of Dutch National Badminton Championships with Piek. In 2016, sh ...

Selena Piek Selena Piek (born 30 September 1991) is a Dutch badminton player who specializes in doubles. Her current partner is Cheryl Seinen for women's doubles and Robin Tabeling for mixed doubles. She won the 2014 and 2015 editions of Dutch National Bad ...

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Setyana Mapasa Setyana Daniella Florensia Mapasa (born 15 August 1995) is an Indonesian-born Australian badminton player. Mapasa won a silver medal at the 2013 BWF World Junior Championships mixed team when she represented Indonesia. She officially became an ...

Gronya Somerville Gronya Somerville (born 10 May 1995) is an Australian badminton player specializing in doubles. She has won nine Oceania Championships titles, six in the women's doubles and three in the mixed doubles. Personal life Somerville, born to an A ...

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Maiken Fruergaard Maiken Fruergaard Sørensen (born 11 May 1995) is a Danish badminton player, specializing in doubles play. As a junior player, she was the gold medalists at the 2013 European Junior Championships in the team and mixed doubles events, and in 2014 ...

Sara Thygesen Sara Thygesen (born 20 January 1991) is a Danish badminton player, specializing in doubles. She started playing badminton at Gårslev in 2002. She got an award for the best female athlete of the year 2007 in her hometown Fredericia. In 2014, she ...

''(quarterfinals)'' # Julie Finne-Ipsen /

Rikke Søby Hansen Rikke Søby Hansen (born 1 February 1995) is a Danish badminton player affiliated with Greve team. She won silver medal at the 2013 European Junior Championships in the girls' doubles event. Achievements European Championships ''Mixed doub ...

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Finals

Top half

Section 1

Section 2

Bottom half

Section 3

Section 4

Mixed doubles

Seeds

# Pranaav Jerry Chopra /

N. Sikki Reddy Nelakurihi Sikki Reddy (born 18 August 1993) is an Indian badminton player who plays doubles and mixed doubles. In 2016, she won the 2016 Brazil Open Grand Prix, Brazil and 2016 Russia Open Grand Prix, Russia Open Grand Prix title in the mixed ...

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Nico Ruponen Nico Mikael Ruponen (born 3 February 1989) is a Swedish badminton player. In 2012, he won the Kharkiv International in the mixed doubles event partnered with Amanda Högström. In 2016, he and Richard Eidestedt had to battle through the qualif ...

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Chloe Magee Chloe Noelle Magee (born 29 November 1988) is an Irish professional badminton player. She represented her country at the Olympic Games for three consecutive times in 2008 Beijing, 2012 London, and 2016 Rio de Janeiro. At the 2008 Summer Olym ...

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Sawan Serasinghe Sawan Serasinghe (born 21 February 1994) is a former badminton player from Australia. He won seven Oceania Championships titles, five in the men's doubles and two in the mixed doubles. Serasinghe competed in the men's doubles event at the 2016 ...

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Ronan Labar Ronan Labar (born 3 May 1989) is a French badminton player. He won the French National Badminton Championships in the mixed doubles event in 2013, 2015 and 2017; also in the men's doubles event in 2014, 2015 and 2020. Achievements European ...

/ Audrey Fontaine ''(quarterfinals)'' # Chang Ko-chi /

Chang Hsin-tien Chang Hsin-tien (; born 11 April 1996) is a Taiwanese badminton player. Career She plays mixed doubles with Chang Ko-chi. Together they were the runner up at the 2015 Chinese Taipei Masters Grand Prix losing there to the Indonesian pair Ron ...

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Ben Lane Ben Lane (born 13 July 1997) is an English badminton player. He won the men's doubles silver medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games and a bronze medal in the European Championships. Personal life Ben's mother Suzanne Louis-Lane, represented En ...

/ Jessica Pugh ''(quarterfinals)''

Finals

Top half

Section 1

Section 2

Bottom half

Section 3

Section 4

References

External links

* {{2016 BWF Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold Scottish Open (badminton) BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix Scottish Open Grand Prix Scottish Open Grand Prix Scottish Open Grand Prix