BWF World Tour Finals

The BWF World Tour Finals, officially HSBC BWF World Tour Finals, which succeeds BWF Super Series Finals, is an annual badminton tournament which is held every December of a year where the players with the most points from that calendar year's events of the BWF World Tour compete for total prize money of at least US$ 1,500,000.

Features

Prize money

The tournament offers minimum total prize money of USD$1,500,000.[1] The prize money is distributed via the following formula:[2]

Round Men's singles Women's singles Men's doubles Women's doubles Mixed doubles
Winner 8.00% 8.00% 8.40% 8.40% 8.40%
Runner-up 4.00% 4.00% 4.00% 4.00% 4.00%
Semi-finalist 2.00% 2.00% 2.00% 2.00% 2.00%
3rd in Group 1.10% 1.10% 1.30% 1.30% 1.30%
4th in Group 0.60% 0.60% 0.70% 0.70% 0.70%

World ranking points
Main article: BWF World Ranking

Below is the point distribution for each phase of the tournament based on the BWF points system for the BWF World Tour Final event.[3]

Winner(s) Runner(s)-up Semi-finalists 3rd in group stage 4th in group stage
12,000 10,200 8,400 6,600 4,800

Eligibility

At the end of the BWF World Tour circuit, top eight players/pairs in the BWF World Tour standing of each discipline, with the maximum of two players/pairs from the same member association, are required to play in a final tournament known as the BWF World Tour Finals.[4]

If two or more players are tie in ranking, the selection of players will based on the following criteria:[4]

  • The players who participated in the most BWF World Tour tournaments;
  • The players who collected the most points in BWF World Tour tournaments starting on 1 July that year.

Results
Edition Year Host city Men's singles Women's singles Men's doubles Women's doubles Mixed doubles
1st 2018 Guangzhou Shi Yuqi P. V. Sindhu Li Junhui
Liu Yuchen		 Misaki Matsutomo
Ayaka Takahashi		 Wang Yilü
Huang Dongping
2nd 2019 Kento Momota Chen Yufei Mohammad Ahsan
Hendra Setiawan		 Chen Qingchen
Jia Yifan		 Zheng Siwei
Huang Yaqiong
3rd 2020 Pak Kret, Nonthaburi Anders Antonsen Tai Tzu-ying Lee Yang
Wang Chi-lin		 Lee So-hee
Shin Seung-chan		 Dechapol Puavaranukroh
Sapsiree Taerattanachai
4th 2021


Performances by nation
Top nations
Pos Nation MS WS MD WD XD Total
1  China 1 1 1 1 2 6
2  Chinese Taipei 1 1 2
 Japan 1 1 2
4  Denmark 1 1
 India 1 1
 Indonesia 1 1
 South Korea 1 1
 Thailand 1 1
Total 3 3 3 3 3 15

See also

References
  1. "BWF Launches New Events Structure". 20 July 2018.
  2. "Distribution of Prize Money (All Levels)" (PDF). 20 July 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 December 2017. Retrieved 20 July 2018.
  3. "World Ranking System" (PDF). Badminton World Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 January 2018. Retrieved 20 July 2018.
  4. "BWF World Tour Regulations" (PDF). 20 July 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 December 2017. Retrieved 20 July 2018.
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