The All England Open Badminton Championships is the world’s oldest and most prestigious badminton tournament. It is played annually. This tournament is being organised since April 4, 1899. This tournament is played Arena Birmingham, Birmingham, England. In the current year 2019 the prize money for this tournament is USD 1,000,000.
List of badminton players with most titles is;
Player | Country | No. of Titles |
1. Rudy Hartono | Indonesia | 8 |
2. Erland Kops | Denmark | 7 |
3. Frank Devlin 4. Lin Dan | Ireland China |
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5. Ralph C.F. Nichols | England | 5 |
6. George Alan Thomas 7. Wong Peng Soon 8. Eddy B. Choong 9. Morten Frost 10. Lee Chong Wei | England Malaysia Malaysia Denmark Malaysia |
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11. Henry Norman Marrett 12. Frank Chesterton 13. Guy A. Sautter 14. Liem Swie King | England England Switzerland Indonesia |
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15. Ralph Watling 16. Norman Wood 17. Raymond White 18. Zhao Jianhua 19. Heryanto Arbi 20. Poul-Erik Høyer Larsen 21. Chen Hong 22. Chen Long | England England England China Indonesia Denmark China China
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The above list shows that Rudy Hartono of Indonesia is the only player who has won the most (8) All England titles so far. Erland Kops of the Denmark is on the second spot who has won 7 titles followed by the Frank Devlin of Ireland and great Lin Dan of China who won 6 titles each.
It’s a like a question mark on the face of all Indians that no Indian could won 2 All England badminton titles so far. There are just two Indians Prakash Padukone and Pullela Gopichand could won single All England badminton title so far.
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