The 2023 Canada Open (officially known as the Yonex Canada Open 2023 for sponsorship reasons) was a badminton tournament which took place at
Markin-MacPhail Centre in
Calgary
Calgary ( ) is the largest city in the western Canadian province of Alberta and the largest metro area of the three Prairie Provinces. As of 2021, the city proper had a population of 1,306,784 and a metropolitan population of 1,481,806, maki ...
,
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tota ...
, from 4 July to 9 July 2023 and had a total purse of $420,000.
Tournament
The 2023 Canada Open will be the fourth Super 500 tournament of the
2023 BWF World Tour and also part of the
Canada Open The Canada Open (french: Open du Canada) in badminton is an international open held in Canada since 1957. The tournament is traditionally held every year in September.
In 1957 the Canadian Badminton Federation decided to open the Canadian Nation ...
championships, which has been held since 1957. This tournament is organized by the Badminton Alberta and
Badminton Canada
Badminton Canada is the national governing body for the sport of badminton in Canada. The association is composed of 13
member associations representing all of the provinces and territories of Canada.
History
The association was founded as Cana ...
and sanctioned by the
BWF.
Started from 2023, the Canada Open has moved from the entry level of BWF World Tour Super 100 up two levels to Super 500.
Venue
This international tournament was held at the Markin-MacPhail Centre,
WinSport
The Calgary Olympic Development Association (CODA), operating as WinSport, is a non-profit organization based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada whose mandate is to provide training and development to Canada's Olympic athletes, and to maintain the facili ...
in
Calgary
Calgary ( ) is the largest city in the western Canadian province of Alberta and the largest metro area of the three Prairie Provinces. As of 2021, the city proper had a population of 1,306,784 and a metropolitan population of 1,481,806, maki ...
,
Alberta
Alberta ( ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is part of Western Canada and is one of the three prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to the west, Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Ter ...
, Canada.
Point distribution
Below is the point distribution table for each phase of the tournament based on the
BWF points system for the
BWF World Tour Super 500
The BWF World Tour is a Grade 2 badminton tournament series, sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF). It is a competition open to the top world ranked players in singles (men's and women's) and doubles (men's, women's and mixed). The competi ...
event.
Prize pool
The total prize money was US$420,000 with the distribution of the prize money in accordance with BWF regulations.
Men's singles
Seeds
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Viktor Axelsen
Viktor Axelsen (born 4 January 1994) is a Danish badminton player. He is the 2017 and 2022 World champion and the 2020 Olympic champion. He won the 2010 World Junior Championships, beating South Korea's Kang Ji-wook in the final to become th ...
''(Withdrew)''
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Kunlavut Vitidsarn
Kunlavut Vitidsarn ( th, กุลวุฒิ วิทิตศานต์; simply known as View ( th, วิว); born 11 May 2001) is a Thai badminton player. He was three-times World Junior champion, winning in 2017, 2018 and 2019. Vitidsa ...
''(First round)''
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Kodai Naraoka
is Japanese badminton player from Aomori. He started playing badminton at the age of 5 with the influence of his father. Naraoka represented his country competed at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, Argentina, won the bronze medal ...
''(Semi-finals)''
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Kenta Nishimoto
is a Japanese badminton player. He won a silver medal in the men's singles at the 2017 Summer Universiade and a bronze medal at the 2018 Asian Games. Nishimoto was part of Japan winning team at the 2012 Asian Junior Championships and at the ...
''(Semi-finals)''
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Li Shifeng ''(Final)''
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Lee Cheuk Yiu
Lee Cheuk Yiu (; born 28 August 1996) is a Hong Kong badminton player.
Career
Lee reached the final of the 2019 Hong Kong Open, after quarter- and semi-final wins against former world champion Viktor Axelsen and former world number one Srika ...
''(Second round)''
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Kanta Tsuneyama
is a Japanese badminton player.
Achievements
Youth Olympic Games
''Mixed doubles''
Asia Junior Championships
''Boys' singles''
''Boys' doubles''
BWF World Tour (3 titles)
The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 ...
''(First round)''
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Ng Ka Long
Angus Ng Ka-long (born 24 June 1994) is a badminton player from Hong Kong. He has a career-high ranking of 6th in the men's singles discipline. He won the 2016 Hong Kong Super Series and the 2020 Thailand Masters.
Early life and education ...
''(Second round)''
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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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Akane Yamaguchi
is a Japanese badminton player who is the reigning two-time World Champion, winning gold in the women's singles at the 2021 and 2022 World Championships. She was on the winning Japanese team at the Asian Junior Championships in 2012 and won var ...
(Champion)
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Ratchanok Intanon
Ratchanok Intanon ( th, รัชนก อินทนนท์, , ; born 5 February 1995) is a Thai badminton player who became the first Thai to become No.1 in women's singles. She is known for her relaxed hitting motion and light footwork, w ...
''(Final)''
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Busanan Ongbamrungphan
Busanan Ongbamrungphan (Thai: บุศนันท์ อึ๊งบำรุงพันธ์; born 22 March 1996) is a Thai badminton player who specializes in singles. She competed at the 2014 and 2018 Asian Games as well as the 2020 Summ ...
''(First round)''
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P. V. Sindhu ''(Semi-finals)''
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Michelle Li
Michelle Li (born November 3, 1991) is a Canadian badminton player from Markham, Ontario. Li is the 2014 Commonwealth Games champion and the first Canadian to win an individual gold medal in women's singles badminton at the Commonwealth Games. S ...
''(Second round)''
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Beiwen Zhang ''(Semi-finals)''
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Hsu Wen-chi ''(Quarter-finals)''
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Nozomi Okuhara
is a Japanese badminton player. A former World's number 1 in the BWF rankings for the women's singles, she is well known for her speed, agility and endurance. She won a bronze at the 2016 Summer Olympics, and gold medal at the 2017 World Cha ...
''(Withdrew)''
Finals
Top half
Section 1
Section 2
Bottom half
Section 3
Section 4
Men's doubles
Seeds
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Takuro Hoki
is a Japanese badminton player affiliated with Tonami team. He was the men's doubles silver medalist at the 2019 World Championships and the men's doubles gold medalist at the 2021 World Championships, being first ever Japanese men's doubles ...
/
Yugo Kobayashi
is a Japanese badminton player affiliated with Tonami team. He was the men's doubles silver medalist at the 2019 World Championships and the men's doubles gold medalist at the 2021 World Championships, being first ever Japanese men's double ...
''(Quarter-finals)''
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Mohammad Ahsan
Mohammad Ahsan (born 7 September 1987) is an Indonesian badminton player affiliated with Djarum club who specializes in the men's doubles. He is three-time World Champion, three-time season ending finals champion, and Asian Games gold medalist ...
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Hendra Setiawan
Hendra Setiawan (born 25 August 1984) is an Indonesian 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, Setiawan has ...
''(Quarter-finals)''
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Kim Astrup
Kim Astrup Sørensen (born 6 March 1992) is a Danish badminton player. As junior player, he won the bronze medal at the 2010 World Junior Championships in the boys' doubles. He later won a gold in the mixed doubles and bronze medals in the boys' ...
/
Anders Skaarup Rasmussen
Anders Skaarup Rasmussen (born 15 February 1989) is a Danish badminton player. He joined the Denmark winning team at the 2016 Thomas Cup in Kunshan, China, where he and his teammates beating Indonesia 3–2 in the final. Rasmussen won the men's ...
(Champions)
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Lu Ching-yao
Lu Ching-yao (; born 7 June 1993) is a Taiwanese badminton player. He was the silver medalist at the 2011 Asian Junior Championships, and 2015 Summer Universiade. He won his first senior international title at the 2014 Singapore International ...
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Yang Po-han ''(Second round)''
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Lee Yang
Lee Yang (; born 12 August 1995) is a Taiwanese badminton player and 2020 Olympics men's doubles champion.
Career
Lee played in the men's doubles with Lee Jhe-huei. They were champions in 2016 at the Vietnam Open Grand Prix. In 2015, toget ...
/
Wang Chi-lin
Wang Chi-lin (; born 18 January 1995) is a Taiwanese badminton player who specializes in doubles. He is the 2020 Olympics men's doubles champion.
Career
In 2021, at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, he and his partner Lee Yang defeated the 2018 World ...
''(Semi-finals)''
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Lee Jhe-huei
Lee Jhe-huei (; born 20 March 1994) is a Taiwanese badminton player.
Career
He plays in the men's doubles with Lee Yang. They were the champions at the 2016 Vietnam Open Grand Prix. In 2015, together they entered the 2015 Chinese Taipei M ...
/
Yang Po-hsuan
Yang Po-hsuan (; born 23 August 1996) is a Taiwanese badminton player. He was part of the national university team that won the gold medal at the 2017 Summer Universiade.
Achievements
BWF World Tour (2 title, 4 runners-up)
The BWF World To ...
''(Second round)''
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Akira Koga
is a Japanese badminton player who also play for the NTT East club. In 2012, his last year as a junior, he was instrumental in Japan's first ever mixed team title at the 2012 Asian Junior Badminton Championships. He and Akane Yamaguchi beat Pei ...
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Taichi Saito ''(Semi-finals)''
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Ayato Endo /
Yuta Takei ''(First round)''
Finals
Top half
Section 1
Section 2
Bottom half
Section 3
Section 4
Women's doubles
Seeds
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Nami Matsuyama
is a Japanese badminton player from the Saishunkan team. She was the girls' doubles gold medalist at the 2016 World Junior Championships in Bilbao, Spain partnered with Sayaka Hobara. Matsuyama won her first senior international title in Thail ...
/
Chiharu Shida
is a Japanese badminton player from the Saishunkan team. She was the bronze medalists at the Badminton Asia Junior Championships, Asian and BWF World Junior Championships, World Junior Championships in 2014 and 2015. Shida won her first internati ...
(Champions)
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Jongkolphan Kititharakul
Jongkolphan Kititharakul ( th, จงกลพรรณ กิติธรากุล; born 1 March 1993) is a Thai badminton player who specializes in doubles. She was the women's doubles gold medalist at the 2017 Southeast Asian Games, also ...
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Rawinda Prajongjai
Rawinda Prajongjai ( th, รวินดา ประจงใจ; born 29 June 1993) is a Thai badminton player. She was part of the national women's team that clinched the gold medal at the 2015, 2017 and 2019 Southeast Asian Games, also won th ...
''(Semi-finals)''
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Yuki Fukushima
is a Japanese badminton player affiliated with Marusugi Bluvic. She and her partner Sayaka Hirota won the 2017 Most Improved Player of the Year award. The duo were ranked as world No. 1 at the BWF World Ranking in 21 June 2018.
Achievements
...
/
Sayaka Hirota
is a Japanese badminton player affiliated with Saishunkan team. She and her partner Yuki Fukushima won the 2017 Most Improved Player of the Year award. Hirota and Fukushima were ranked world No. 1 at the BWF World Ranking in 21 June 2018.
Ach ...
''(Semi-finals)''
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Mayu Matsumoto
is a Japanese badminton player. Born in Hokkaido, she graduated from Shiritsu Towanomorisanai High School. She was part of the Hokuto Bank team. Matsumoto was awarded as the 2018 Most Improved Player of the Year by the BWF together with her p ...
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Wakana Nagahara
is a Japanese badminton player. She is a two-time world champion in the women's doubles. Nagahara attended Aomori Yamada High School, and was part of the Japanese national junior team that won the bronze medals at the 2013, 2014 Asian and 201 ...
''(Final)''
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Benyapa Aimsaard
Benyapa Aimsaard ( th, เบญญาภา เอี่ยมสอาด; born 29 August 2002) is a Thai badminton player.
Career
Aimsaard educated at the Demonstration School of Bansomdejchaopraya Rajabhat University. She entered the inter ...
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Nuntakarn Aimsaard
Nuntakarn Aimsaard ( th, นันทกานต์ เอี่ยมสอาด; born 23 May 1999) is a Thai badminton player. Aimsaard entered the international badminton circuit in 2015. She was part of the Thailand team that won the mixed ...
''(Quarter-finals)''
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Rena Miyaura Renas may refer to:
Places
*Rena, Badajoz, a municipality in Extremadura, Spain
*Rena, Norway, a village in Innlandet county, Norway
*Rena, Washington, a community in Clallam County, Washington, United States
People
*Rena (given name), list of pe ...
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Ayako Sakuramoto ''(Quarter-finals)''
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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 ...
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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 ...
''(Second round)''
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Rui Hirokami /
Yuna Kato
Yuna may refer to:
Geography
*Yuna River, Dominican Republic
*Yuna, Western Australia
Music
*Yuna (album), ''Yuna'' (album), a 2012 album by Malaysian singer Yuna
*Yuna (EP), ''Yuna'' (EP), a 2008 album by Malaysian acoustic singer Yuna
People ...
''(First round)''
Finals
Top half
Section 1
Section 2
Bottom half
Section 3
Section 4
Mixed doubles
Seeds
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Yuta Watanabe
is a Japanese professional basketball player for the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball in the United States for the George Washington Colonials, becoming the first Japanese-born student a ...
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Arisa Higashino
is a Japanese badminton player. She won bronze in the mixed team at the Asian Junior Championships in 2013 and 2014, and competed at the 2014 World Junior Championships, winning two bronzes in the mixed doubles and team event. Higashino won h ...
''(Quarter-finals)''
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Kyohei Yamashita
is a Japanese badminton player who specializes in doubles.
Yamashita, together with his partner Naru Shinoya, won the mixed doubles bronze medal at the 2021 World Championships after losing in the semifinals to compatriots Yuta Watanabe and A ...
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Naru Shinoya
is a Japanese badminton player. She is affiliated with the NTT East team.
Shinoya, together with her partner Kyohei Yamashita, won the mixed doubles bronze medal at the 2021 World Championships after losing in the semifinals to compatriots Yu ...
''(Semi-finals)''
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Yuki Kaneko /
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 ...
''(Quarter-finals)''
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Ye Hong-wei
Ye Hong-wei (; born 1 November 1999) is a Taiwanese badminton player.
Achievements Summer Universiade
''Mixed doubles''
BWF World Tour (2 titles, 2 runners-up)
The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented i ...
/
Lee Chia-hsin
Lee Chia-hsin (; born 14 May 1997) is a Taiwanese badminton player. She won her first international title at the 2013 Polish International in the women's doubles event partnered with Wu Ti-jung. Lee was the gold medalists at the 2017 Summer Un ...
''(Second round)''
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Hiroki Midorikawa
is a Japanese badminton player.
Achievements BWF World Tour (1 title, 2 runners-up)
The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018, is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton Wo ...
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Natsu Saito
is a Japanese badminton player. Saito is affiliated with the ACT SAIKYO badminton team.
Saito won her first BWF World Tour title at the 2023 Canada Open in mixed doubles with her partner Hiroki Midorikawa. Saito also played women's doubles wi ...
(Champions)
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Chang Ko-chi /
Lee Chih-chen
Lee may refer to:
Name
Given name
* Lee (given name), a given name in English
Surname
* Chinese surnames romanized as Li or Lee:
** Li (surname 李) or Lee (Hanzi ), a common Chinese surname
** Li (surname 利) or Lee (Hanzi ), a Chinese s ...
''(First round)''
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Mathias Thyrri
Mathias, a given name and a surname which is a variant of Matthew (name), may refer to:
Places
* Mathias, West Virginia
* Mathias Township, Michigan
People with the given name or surname ''Mathias'' In music
* Mathias Eick, Norwegian Jazz Musici ...
/
Amalie Magelund
Amalie Magelund Krogh (born 13 May 2000) is a Danish badminton player, specializing in doubles play. As a junior player, she was a silver medalist at the 2018 European Junior Championships in both the team and girls' doubles events.
Achievemen ...
''(Final)''
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Gregory Mairs
Gregory Mairs (born 7 December 1994) is an English badminton player.
Career
Mairs started playing badminton at the age of six in Weaverham Leisure Centre.
In 2023, he won his second national doubles title at the English National Badminton C ...
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Jenny Moore
Jennifer Mairs ( Moore; born 31 August 1995) is an English badminton player.
Career
In 2023, she won her first national doubles title at the English National Badminton Championships, at the David Ross Sports Village in Nottingham.
Personal l ...
''(Withdrew)''
Finals
Top half
Section 1
Section 2
Bottom half
Section 3
Section 4
References
External links
Tournament Link
{{Canadian Open (badminton)
Canadian Open (badminton)
Canada Open The Canada Open (french: Open du Canada) in badminton is an international open held in Canada since 1957. The tournament is traditionally held every year in September.
In 1957 the Canadian Badminton Federation decided to open the Canadian Nation ...
Sports competitions in Calgary
Canada Open The Canada Open (french: Open du Canada) in badminton is an international open held in Canada since 1957. The tournament is traditionally held every year in September.
In 1957 the Canadian Badminton Federation decided to open the Canadian Nation ...
Canada Open The Canada Open (french: Open du Canada) in badminton is an international open held in Canada since 1957. The tournament is traditionally held every year in September.
In 1957 the Canadian Badminton Federation decided to open the Canadian Nation ...