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Only the top eight players and pairs on the World Tour rankings are invited to participate in the BWF World Tour Finals every year.

The BWF World Tour Finals is the annual season-ending competition on the badminton calendar, featuring only the best players of the year. It was first organised in 2018 as the successor to the BWF Super Series Finals.

Held in December, the BWF World Tour Finals invites the top eight players and pairs on the World Tour rankings. Only specific events award qualifying points in a calendar year to enable players make the cut.

These events are divided into Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300 and Super 100, with the most points on offer in the Super 1000 tournaments.

The All England Open, Indonesia Open and China Open are the original Super 1000 events. However, the Malaysia Open has been upgraded from a Super 750 to a Super 1000 competition from 2023.

Players and pairs collect points throughout the year by participating in these events and the top eight from each category on the cut-off date are invited to the World Tour Finals.

The world badminton rankings and World Tour rankings are not the same. The World Tour rankings take into account only performances in a specific year and are reset at the end of each year.

At the World Tour Finals, competitions are held across five categories - men’s and women’s singles and men’s, women’s and mixed doubles.

The eight players and pairs are divided into two groups of four, starting with a round-robin format in the first stage. The top two from each group advance to the semi-finals.

The first BWF World Tour Finals tournament was held in Guangzhou, the People's Republic of China in 2018.

China’s Shi Yuqi was the first men’s singles champion at the BWF World Tour Finals held in 2018, while PV Sindhu from India clinched the maiden women’s singles title.

The Chinese duo of Li Junhui and Liu Yuchen claimed the men’s doubles top prize during the inaugural edition staged in Guangzhou. Misaki Matsutomo and Ayaka Takahashi of Japan were crowned the women’s doubles champions while Wang Yilu and Huang Dongping from China won the mixed doubles event.

In the six editions held so far, China have been the most successful nation at the BWF World Tour Finals.

BWF World Tour Finals winners list

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Tai Tzu-ying wins BWF World Tour Finals title with comeback victory over Carolina Marin

HANGZHOU – Eleven wins apiece in their head-to-head record, that was how evenly matched Chinese Taipei’s world No. 4 Tai Tzu-ying and world No. 5 Spaniard Carolina Marin were heading into the title-decider of the Badminton World Federation (BWF) World Tour Finals on Dec 17.

The final showdown at the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Expo Centre did not disappoint either, as Tai edged ahead to her 12th victory after yet another sensational fightback to win 12-21, 21-14, 21-18.

The 29-year-old also lost the first game of her semi-final clash with South Korean world No. 1 An Se-young a day earlier before saving four match points to clinch the tie.

“I’m of course very happy,” said Tai. “To become the champion of this tournament, it just shows what I worked hard for the entire year and it paid off.

“However, before I came here, I felt that I did not train as well as I would have liked, therefore my performance did not live up to my own expectations.”

Tai’s victory means she has clinched the season-ending event for the fourth time – she last won in 2020, also against Marin.

She triumphed in 2014 and 2016 as well, when it was known as the BWF Super Series Finals.

When asked if it would be a boost for the season ahead and for the 2024 Paris Olympics, she added: “I believe so. Moreover, I wasn’t in the best of conditions, but to match up to these players (in Hangzhou), I will cherish it a lot.

“Also, the fans here have encouraged me, given me a lot of support, so I have confidence to carry on.”

Tai has shown her resilience in Hangzhou and it was once again evident when she rallied from a game and 4-1 down against her 30-year-old opponent.

Marin had won their last meeting, in the quarter-finals of the Denmark Open in October, and she built on that by wrapping up the first game in just 21 minutes.

In the second game, the 2016 Olympic champion went into the mid-game break 11-9 up, and that was when Tai picked up the pace and made Marin work around the court. The Taiwanese star won six points in a row and eventually levelled the contest.

In the decider, both players committed errors but Tai then scored eight of the next 11 points at 11-10 up and with momentum on her side, converted her third championship point to the delight of her fans.

A disappointed Marin said: “I have to be proud of myself after a tough year with ups and downs.”

In the men’s final, defending champion Viktor Axelsen claimed his fifth title and the best form of revenge after defeating home favourite Shi Yuqi 21-11, 21-12.

The Danish world No. 1 had lost to his Chinese opponent 21-19, 21-19 in a tight match in the group stage, but faced little difficulty this time round in a dominant victory.

In the men’s doubles, South Korean world champions Kang Min-hyuk and Seo Seung-jae defeated China’s Liang Weikeng and Wang Chang 21-17, 22-20.

China won the women’s doubles via Chen Qingchen and Jia Yifan, who clinched a 21-16, 21-16 victory over South Korea’s Baek Ha-na and Lee So-hee.

In the all-China mixed doubles final, Zheng Siwei and Huang Yaqiong pipped Feng Yanzhe and Huang Dongping 21-11, 21-18.

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