French Open (badminton)

The French Open is an annual Badminton tournament held in France since 1909 and hosted by the Fédération Française de Badminton (FFBa). The 2009 edition will be held from the 27th of October to the 1st of November.

The tournament was halted between 1915 and 1934, in 1965, 1970, 1972, 1994 and 2006. Not previously considered as one of the international badminton circuit's leading events, it was promoted to become part of the BWF Super Series in 2007 making the French Open one of the 12 major badminton tournaments in the world.

Past winners

Main article: List of French Open champions in badminton

21st century

Below is the list of the past winners in this 21st century.

Year	Men's singles	Women's singles	Men's doubles	Women's doubles	Mixed doubles
2010	Taufik Hidayat	Wang Yihan	Mathias Boe Carsten Mogensen	Duanganong Aroonkesorn Kunchala Voravichitchaikul	Sudket Prapakamol Saralee Thoungthongkam
2009	Lin Dan		Markis Kido Hendra Setiawan	Ma Jin Wang Xiaoli	Nova Widianto Lilyana Natsir
2008	Peter Gade	Wang Lin		Du Jing Yu Yang	He Hanbin Yu Yang
2007	Lee Chong Wei	Xie Xingfang	Fu Haifeng Cai Yun	Zhang Yawen Wei Yili	Flandy Limpele Vita Marissa
2006	No competition
2005	Stanislav Pukhov	Pi Hongyan	Simon Mollyhus Anders Kristiansen	Elodie Eymard Weny Rahmawati	Nabil Lasmari Eny Widiowati
2004	Chen Jin		Gan Tiek Chai Koo Kien Keat	Du Jing Yu Yang	Xie Yongbo Yu Yang
2003	Marc Zwiebler		Joachim Fischer Nielsen Carsten Mogensen	Yoshiko Iwata Miyuki Tai Mi	Jörgen Olsson Frida Andreasson
2002	Luo Yigang	Xie Xingfang	Cheng Rui Wang Wei	Zhang Yawen Zhao Tingting	Zheng Bo Zhang Yawen
2001	Abynshyam Gupta	Brenda Beenhakker	Vincent Laigle Svetoslav Stoyanov	Erica van den Heuvel Nicole van Hooren	Chris Bruil Lotte Jonathans

Full list

• Men's singles
• Women's singles
• Men's doubles
• Women's doubles
• Mixed doubles

References

• Badminton Europe: Fédération Française de Badminton (PDF)
• Badminton.de: French Open
• Smash: French Open

External links

• Official website