2008 BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix

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The 2008 BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix is the second season of BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix with fourteen tournaments in contested. The season will start with German Open and ended with Vietnam Open.

Contents 1 Grand Prix Gold 1.1 India Open 1.2 European Badminton Championships 1.3 Thailand Open 1.4 Chinese Taipei Open 1.5 Macau Open 1.6 Dutch Open 2 Grand Prix 2.1 German Open 2.2 U.S. Open 2.3 New Zealand Open 2.4 Bitburger Open 2.5 Bulgaria Open 2.6 Russian Open 2.7 Vietnam Open 3 References

[edit] Grand Prix Gold

[edit] India Open

• Date: April 1 – April 6, 2008
• Venue: Kotla Vijay Bhaskar Reddy Indoor Stadium, Hyderabad, India
• Prize money: USD120,000^[1]

Category	Winners	Runners-up	Score
Men's singles	Boonsak Ponsana	Chetan Anand	21–16, 21–12
Women's singles	Zhou Mi	Lu Lan	21–14, 21–14
Men's doubles	Guo Zhendong & Xie Zhongbo	Chan Chong Ming & Chew Choon Eng	19–21, 21–14, 21–12
Women's doubles	Chien Yu Chin & Cheng Wen-Hsing	Miyuki Maeda & Satoko Suetsuna	21–17, 21–16
Mixed doubles	He Hanbin & Yu Yang	Kristof Hopp & Birgit Overzier	21–18, 21–9
Results

[edit] European Badminton Championships

Main article: 2008 European Badminton Championships

• Date: April 12 – April 20, 2008
• Venue: Messecenter Herning, Herning, Denmark

Category	Winners	Runners-up	Score
Men's singles	Kenneth Jonassen	Joachim Persson	21–13, 21–16
Women's singles	Xu Huaiwen	Tine Rasmussen	12–21, 21–12, 21–17
Men's doubles	Lars Paaske & Jonas Rasmussen	Jens Eriksen & Martin Lundgaard Hansen	21–19, 21–16
Women's doubles	Kamilla Rytter Juhl & Lena Frier Kristiansen	Gail Emms & Donna Kellogg	21–18, 21–18
Mixed doubles	Anthony Clark & Donna Kellogg	Robert Mateusiak & Nadiezda Kostiuczyk	16–21, 22–20, 21–15
Results

[edit] Thailand Open

• Date: June 24—June 29, 2008
• Venue: Nimibutr National Stadium, Bangkok, Thailand
• Prize money: USD120,000

[edit] Chinese Taipei Open

• Date: September 9—September 14, 2008
• Prize money: USD170,000

[edit] Macau Open

• Date: September 30—October 5, 2008
• Prize money: USD120,000

[edit] Dutch Open

• Date: October 14—October 19, 2008
• Prize money: USD50,000

[edit] Grand Prix

[edit] German Open

• Date: February 26 – March 2, 2008
• Venue: RWE Rhein-Ruhr Sporthalle, Mülheim, Germany
• Prize money: USD80,000^[2]

Category	Winners	Runners-up	Score
Men's singles	Lee Hyun-il	Sho Sasaki	22–20, 21–5
Women's singles	Jun Jae-youn	Wang Yihan	25–23, 21–10
Men's doubles	Lee Jae-jin & Hwang Ji-man	Jung Jae-sung & Lee Yong-dae	21–13, 21–19
Women's doubles	Lee Kyung-won & Lee Hyo-jung	Miyuki Maeda & Satoko Suetsuna	21–17, 21–16
Mixed doubles	Lee Yong-dae & Lee Hyo-jung	He Hanbin & Yu Yang	9–21, 27–25, 21–18
Results

[edit] U.S. Open

• Date: July 8—July 13, 2008
• Venue: Orange County Badminton Club, Orange, California, United States
• Prize money: USD50,000

[edit] New Zealand Open

• Date: July 15—July 20, 2008
• Prize money: USD50,000

[edit] Bitburger Open

• Date: September 30—October 5, 2008
• Venue: Saarbrücken, Germany
• Prize money: USD50,000

[edit] Bulgaria Open

• Date: October 7 – October 12, 2008
• Venue: Sofia, Bulgaria
• Prize money: USD50,000

[edit] Russian Open

• Date: November 4—November 9, 2008
• Venue: Moscow, Russia
• Prize money: USD50,000

[edit] Vietnam Open

• Date: December 2—December 7, 2008
• Venue: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
• Prize money: USD50,000

[edit] References

Preceded by 2007

BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix 2008

Succeeded by 2009