Boston Badminton Open
{{Short description|Annual badminton tournament in Cambridge, Massachusetts}}
File:Boston Open 1st Place.jpg
The Boston Open is an annual badminton tournament held in Cambridge, Massachusetts just across the Charles River from Boston. It has become the leading regularly held tournament in the Eastern United States.
History
The Boston Open was established in 1997 as regional tournament for Northeastern players, the first significant open badminton tournament in Massachusetts since the earlier New England Open which had been played from the mid 1930s to the late 1980s. When the tournament was created, the Rockwell Cage at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts was chosen as the location for the tournament. The Rockwell Cage is an athletic facility at MIT, and home of the university's basketball and volleyball teams.{{Cite web|url=https://mitathletics.com/facilities|title=Facilities|website=Massachusetts Institute of Technology}} The Boston Open has been held there ever since. Over time the tournament began to develop and gain popularity. It would soon become one of the top tournaments in North America, attracting badminton players from around the world.
Sponsorship
In order to operate the Boston Open relies upon aid from sponsors. The MIT Badminton Club has been the primary sponsor for the Boston Open since 1997. The club works hard every year to make sure the tournament runs smoothly. The MIT Badminton Club is partially responsible for getting the Boston Open to where it is today. In 2014 adidas became the official named sponsor of the tournament, helping the Boston Open gain even more recognition and further prove its significance.{{cite web |url=http://www.bostonopen.com/ |title=Home |website=bostonopen.com}} With the new sponsorship from adidas in 2014, the Boston Open was able to increase their total tournament prize money to $22,150.
Notable players
Howard Bach is a professional Vietnamese-American badminton player. He annually partakes in the Boston Open and has managed to win the championship for the men's doubles twice. Howard Bach is also one of the few American badminton players to participate in the Olympics.{{cite news|last1=Clement|first1=Bill|title=Badminton second to soccer in participation worldwide|url=https://www.espn.com/olympics/summer04/badminton/news/story?id=1845228|access-date=11 November 2014|work=ESPN|publisher=ESPN.com|date=July 23, 2004}}
Previous winners
= Open division=
| class=wikitable style="font-size:90%;"
!Year !Men's singles !Women's singles !Men's doubles !Women's doubles !Mixed doubles |
| 1997
|rowspan=3|Wu Chibing |
| 1998 |
| 1999
|rowspan=2|Evgenij Dremin |
| 2000 |
| 2001 |
| 2002 |
| 2003 |
| 2004
|rowspan=3|Lili Zhou |
| 2005
|Pascal Gagnon |
| 2006 |
| 2007
|rowspan=2|Joo Hyun Lee |Halim Haryanto |Angeline de Pauw |rowspan=3|Chandra Kowi |
| 2008
|rowspan=2|Joo Hyun Lee |
| [http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/winners.aspx?id=6BBE3C02-BB16-4174-80DC-0FEE598CAFBE 2009] |
| [http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/winners.aspx?id=9B495FBC-9B6D-4DF1-9184-547808D802F4 2010]
|rowspan=3|Holvy de Pauw |
| [http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/winners.aspx?id=84F46305-5EE7-4AEC-ABAB-9A9DF59ED8B9 2011]
|rowspan=2|Ilian Perez |
| [http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/winners.aspx?id=F02762BE-5E72-4A60-8F47-6D3972A1E772 2012]
| rowspan="7" |Beiwen Zhang |rowspan=2|Nicole Grether |
| [http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/winners.aspx?id=7427A027-7105-46DB-88B9-234F8B574130 2013] |
| [http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/winners.aspx?id=539A8C25-73FA-4308-92E3-B9E3DB0919A5 2014]
|rowspan=2|Howard Bach | rowspan="5" |Beiwen Zhang |
| [http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/winners.aspx?id=62010833-B314-4770-A922-B7B1AE40A84E 2015] |
| [http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/winners.aspx?id=374A1F33-DCEC-43A6-A8DB-09AAC10A6A29 2016]
| rowspan="2" |Chan Kwong Beng |
| [http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/winners.aspx?id=8D7B7063-8F71-4FE6-AF92-0BEFAF8C8264 2017] |
| [http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/winners.aspx?id=627FF962-CC46-4E6A-87AD-FFCA44A9C40F 2018] |
| [http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/winners.aspx?id=691588A2-595B-4C08-B3F3-3137FA16404A 2019]
|Arya Maulana Aldiartama |
=Senior division=
| class=wikitable style="font-size:90%;"
! Year !! Men's doubles !! Women's doubles !! Mixed doubles |
| 2008
|Pratap Joshi / Ravi Raveendran |Batool Kazim / Mette Ravn |Naruthum Surakkhaka / Daphne Chang |
| 2009
|Pratap Joshi / Anirudh Makarla |Batool Kazim / Ismat Shaikh |Phu Khuu / Daphne Chang |
2014 prize money
| class="wikitable"
! Event{{cite web |url=http://www.bostonopen.com/prizes |website=bostonopen.com |publisher=Adidas |title=2014 Boston Open (Badminton) > Prize Money|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141024045636/http://www.bostonopen.com/prizes |archive-date=Oct 24, 2014 |url-status=dead}} !! Winner !! Runner Up !! Semi-Finalists !! Cons. Winner |
| Men's Singles
|$1,700 |$850 |$350 each player |$100 |
| Ladies Singles
|$1,700 |$850 |$350 each player |$100 |
| Men's Doubles
|$1,200 each player |$600 each player |$225 each player |$100 each player |
| Ladies Doubles
|$1,200 each player |$600 each player |$225 each player |$100 each player |
| Mixed Doubles
|$1,200 each player |$600 each player |$225 each player |$100 each player |
| Senior Men's Doubles
|$150 each player |$75 each player | | |
| Senior Ladies Doubles
|$150 each player |$75 each player | | |
| Senior Mixed Doubles
|$150 each player |$75 each player | | |
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- [http://www.bostonopen.com Boston Open Official Site]
- [http://www.usabadminton.org/event/event/1165 2009 WILSON MIT BOSTON OPEN | Events | USA Badminton]
- [http://web.mit.edu/mitbac/www/index5.html MIT Badminton Club]
- [http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/tournament.aspx?id=6BBE3C02-BB16-4174-80DC-0FEE598CAFBE 2009 Tournament results]
Category:1997 establishments in Massachusetts
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