List of Malaysia Open mixed doubles champions

Malaysia Open is an annual Malaysian badminton tournament created in 1937 and played at the Axiata Arena in the Bukit Jalil suburb of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Malaysia Open Mixed Doubles Champions
LocationKuala Lumpur
Malaysia
VenueAxiata Arena
Governing bodyBAM
Created1937
Editions64 (2024)
Open Era (1980): 39
Prize money$1,300,000 (2024)
TrophyMixed doubles trophy
Websitebam.org.my
Most titles
Amateur era5: Tan Gaik Bee
Open era5: Zheng Siwei
Most consecutive titles
Amateur era4: Lim Say Hup
4: Tan Gaik Bee
Open era5: Zheng Siwei
Current champion
Yuta Watanabe
Arisa Higashino2024
(First title)

History edit

The Malaysia Open is played in the second week of January (prior to this it was first week in April or first week in July) and is chronologically the first of the four BWF World Tour Super 1000 tournaments of the badminton season.[1] In between 2014 and 2017, it has been chronologically the first or second (after the All England Open Badminton Championships) of the five BWF Super Series Premier tournaments. The event was not held from 1942 to 1946 because of World War II, from 1961, 1964, 1969 to 1982, 1985, and from 2020 to 2021, because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Below is the list of the winners at the Malaysia Open in mixed doubles.[2]

Finalists edit

Amateur era edit

Year Country Champion Country Runner-up Score
1937   SGP
  SGP
Wong Peng Soon
Waileen Wong
  SGP
  SGP
Koh Keng Siang
Alice Pennefather
21–11, 21–12
1938   SGP
  SGP
Wong Peng Soon
Waileen Wong
  MAS
  MAS
A. S. Samuel
Ida Lim
20–23, 21–11, 21–7
1939   MAS
  MAS
Ooi Teik Hock
Cecilia Chan
  MAS
  MAS
Chan Kon Leong
Chung Kon Yoong
15–4, 15–11
1940   SGP
  MAS
Wong Peng Soon
Lee Chee Neo
  MAS
  MAS
Ooi Teik Hock
Cecilia Chan
15–9, 15–11
1941   MAS
  MAS
Chee Choon Wah
Ong Eak Eam
  SGP
  SGP
S. A. Durai
Yoong Sook Lian
15–9, 15–1
1942 No competition (due to World War II)
1943
1944
1945
1946
1947   MAS
  MAS
Chan Kon Leong
Cecilia Samuel
  MAS
  MAS
S. M. Omar
Molly Chin
15–6, 15–3
1948   MAS
  MAS
Chan Kon Leong
Lee Keng Sim
  MAS
  MAS
Lee Mun Kong
Mary Yap
15–7, 13–15, 15–2
1949   MAS
  MAS
Eddy Choong
Amy Choong
  MAS
  MAS
Chan Kon Leong
Valentine Chan
15–9, 11–15, 15–7
1950   MAS
  MAS
Goh Chong Hong
Valentine Chan
  MAS
  MAS
Chan Kon Leong
Cecilia Samuel
15–6, 5–15, 15–10
1951   MAS
  MAS
Goh Chong Hong
Valentine Chan
  MAS
  MAS
Chan Kon Leong
Cecilia Samuel
15–12, 11–15, 15–11
1952   SGP
  MAS
Ong Poh Lim
Cecilia Samuel
  MAS
  MAS
Abdullah Priuz
Cheah Kooi See
15–4, 1–2 (retired)
1953   MAS
  MAS
Lee Yew Seng
Chia Peck Sim
  MAS
  MAS
Chan Kon Leong
Lim Ee Lian
9–15, 15–3, 15–8
1954   MAS
  MAS
Chan Kon Leong
Cecilia Samuel
  MAS
  MAS
Tan Jin Eong
Tan Eng Looi
15–10, 10–15, 18-16
1955   DEN
  MAS
Jörgen Hammergaard Hansen
Amy Choong
  MAS
  MAS
Chan Kon Leong
Cecilia Samuel
17–15, 15–11
1956   MAS
  MAS
Abdullah Piruz
Chia Peck Sim
  MAS
  SGP
Chan Kon Leong
Jessie Ong
15–3, 12–15, 15-12
1957   MAS
  MAS
Lim Say Hup
Tan Gaik Bee
  MAS
  MAS
Eddy Choong
Lam Kit Lin
15–3, 6–15, 15–12
1958   MAS
  MAS
Lim Say Hup
Tan Gaik Bee
  MAS
  MAS
Johnny Heah
Amy Heah
12–15, 15–4, 18–14
1959   MAS
  MAS
Lim Say Hup
Tan Gaik Bee
  IND
  MAS
Nandu Natekar
Alice Lim
15–8, 15–3
1960   MAS
  MAS
Lim Say Hup
Tan Gaik Bee
  MAS
  MAS
Bobby Chee
Ng Mei Ling
17–14, 15–6
1961 No competition
1962   MAS
  MAS
Teh Kew San
Ng Mei Ling
  MAS
  MAS
Ng Boon Bee
Tan Gaik Bee
15–11, 15–12
1963   MAS
  MAS
Eddy Choong
Tan Gaik Bee
  MAS
  MAS
Bobby Chee
Ewe Choon Ghee
4–15, 15–4, 15–6
1964 No competition
1965   MAS
  MAS
Teh Kew San
Ng Mei Ling
  MAS
  MAS
Eddy Choong
Rosalind Singha Ang
15–10, 15–7
1966   INA
  INA
Abdul Patah Unang
Retno Koestijah
  MAS
  MAS
Eddy Choong
Rosalind Singha Ang
10–8 (retired)
1967   INA
  INA
Tan Joe Hock
Retno Koestijah
  INA
  INA
Darmadi
Minarni
15–9, 15–8
1968   DEN
  SWE
Svend Andersen
Eva Twedberg
  MAS
  MAS
Teh Kew San
Ng Mei Ling
18–17, 15-13
1969 No competition
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979

Open era edit

1980 No competition
1981
1982
1983   ENG
  ENG
Martin Dew
Nora Perry
  INA
  INA
Christian Hadinata
Ivana Lie
5–15, 15–10, 15–6
1984   ENG
  ENG
Martin Dew
Gillian Clark
  ENG
  ENG
Nigel Tier
Gillian Gowers
15–6, 15–5
1985 No competition
1986   INA
  INA
Bobby Ertanto
Verawaty Fadjrin
  DEN
  ENG
Steen Fladberg
Gillian Clark
15–7, 18–15
1987   DEN
  ENG
Steen Fladberg
Gillian Clark
  SCO
  ENG
Billy Gilliland
Gillian Gowers
15–7, 15-6
1988   INA
  INA
Eddy Hartono
Verawaty Fadjrin
  CHN
  CHN
Wang Pengren
Shi Fangjing
15–9, 15-7
1989   KOR
  KOR
Park Joo-bong
Chung So-young
  DEN
  DEN
Thomas Lund
Pernille Dupont
15–7, 15–13
1990   KOR
  KOR
Park Joo-bong
Chung Myung-hee
  DEN
  ENG
Jan Paulsen
Gillian Gowers
15–12, 15–1
1991   KOR
  KOR
Lee Sang-bok
Chung So-young
  DEN
  DEN
Thomas Lund
Pernille Dupont
15–11, 15–8
1992   DEN
  DEN
Thomas Lund
Pernille Dupont
  DEN
  DEN
Jon Holst-Christensen
Lotte Olsen
15–8, 15–12
1993   DEN
  ENG
Michael Søgaard
Gillian Gowers
  INA
  INA
Paulus Firman
S. Herawati
18–13, 15–13
1994   SWE
  SWE
Jan-Eric Antonsson
Astrid Crabo
  CHN
  CHN
Liu Jianjun
Ge Fei
15–9, 15–11
1995   KOR
  KOR
Kim Dong-moon
Gil Young-ah
  CHN
  CHN
Tao Xiaoqiang
Wang Xiaoyuan
15–7, 15–9
1996   INA
  INA
Tri Kusharjanto
Minarti Timur
  DEN
  DEN
Michael Søgaard
Rikke Olsen
15–7, 15–5
1997   CHN
  CHN
Liu Yong
Ge Fei
  DEN
  DEN
Jens Eriksen
Marlene Thomsen
15–12, 15–1
1998   INA
  INA
Tri Kusharjanto
Minarti Timur
  DEN
  DEN
Michael Søgaard
Rikke Olsen
8–15, 18–15, 18–15
1999   DEN
  DEN
Michael Søgaard
Rikke Olsen
  INA
  INA
Tri Kusharjanto
Minarti Timur
15–4, 15–7
2000   KOR
  KOR
Kim Dong-moon
Ra Kyung-min
  INA
  INA
Tri Kusharjanto
Minarti Timur
15–7, 15–8
2001   INA
  INA
Bambang Suprianto
Emma Ermawati
  CHN
  CHN
Liu Yong
Zhang Jiewen
7–8, 6–8, 7–2
2002   ENG
  ENG
Nathan Robertson
Gail Emms
  CHN
  CHN
Wang Wei
Zhang Yawen
11–9, 11–4
2003   KOR
  KOR
Kim Dong-moon
Ra Kyung-min
  ENG
  ENG
Nathan Robertson
Gail Emms
15–6, 15–5
2004   CHN
  CHN
Zhang Jun
Gao Ling
  KOR
  KOR
Kim Yong-hyun
Lee Hyo-jung
15–2, 15–11
2005   KOR
  KOR
Lee Jae-jin
Lee Hyo-jung
  CHN
  CHN
Chen Qiqiu
Zhao Tingting
15–12, 15–11
2006   CHN
  CHN
Zhang Jun
Gao Ling
  DEN
  DEN
Jonas Rasmussen
Britta Andersen
19–21, 21–14, 21–15
2007   CHN
  CHN
Zheng Bo
Gao Ling
  ENG
  ENG
Nathan Robertson
Gail Emms
21–12, 14–21, 21–15
2008   CHN
  CHN
He Hanbin
Yu Yang
  KOR
  KOR
Lee Yong-dae
Lee Hyo-jung
21–14, 21–15
2009   INA
  INA
Nova Widianto
Liliyana Natsir
  KOR
  KOR
Lee Yong-dae
Lee Hyo-jung
21–14, 21–19
2010   CHN
  CHN
Tao Jiaming
Zhang Yawen
  DEN
  DEN
Thomas Laybourn
Kamilla Rytter Juhl
19–21, 21–18, 21–15
2011   CHN
  CHN
He Hanbin
Ma Jin
  CHN
  CHN
Tao Jiaming
Tian Qing
21–13, 13–21, 21–16
2012   CHN
  CHN
Zhang Nan
Zhao Yunlei
  CHN
  CHN
Xu Chen
Ma Jin
21–12, 21–9
2013   DEN
  DEN
Joachim Fischer Nielsen
Christinna Pedersen
  MAS
  MAS
Chan Peng Soon
Goh Liu Ying
21–13, 21–18
2014   CHN
  CHN
Xu Chen
Ma Jin
  DEN
  DEN
Joachim Fischer Nielsen
Christinna Pedersen
21–11, 17–21, 21–13
2015   CHN
  CHN
Zhang Nan
Zhao Yunlei
  CHN
  CHN
Xu Chen
Ma Jin
21–16, 21–14
2016   INA
  INA
Tontowi Ahmad
Liliyana Natsir
  MAS
  MAS
Chan Peng Soon
Goh Liu Ying
23–21, 13–21, 21–16
2017   CHN
  CHN
Zheng Siwei
Chen Qingchen
  CHN
  CHN
Lu Kai
Huang Yaqiong
21–15, 21–18
2018   CHN
  CHN
Zheng Siwei
Huang Yaqiong
  CHN
  CHN
Wang Yilyu
Huang Dongping
21–19, 21–18
2019   CHN
  CHN
Zheng Siwei
Huang Yaqiong
  CHN
  CHN
Wang Yilyu
Huang Dongping
21–17, 21–13
2020 No competition
2021
2022   CHN
  CHN
Zheng Siwei
Huang Yaqiong
  THA
  THA
Dechapol Puavaranukroh
Sapsiree Taerattanachai
21–13, 21–18
2023   CHN
  CHN
Zheng Siwei
Huang Yaqiong
  JPN
  JPN
Yuta Watanabe
Arisa Higashino
21–19, 21–11
2024   JPN
  JPN
Yuta Watanabe
Arisa Higashino
  KOR
  KOR
Kim Won-ho
Jeong Na-eun
21–18, 21–15

Statistics edit

Multiple champions edit

Player Open Era Amateur Era All-time Years
  Siwei Zheng (CHN) 5 0 5 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023
  Gaik Bee Tan (MAS) 0 5 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1963
  Yaqiong Huang (CHN) 4 0 4 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023
  Say Hup Lim (MAS) 0 4 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960
  Cecilia Samuel (MAS) 1939, 1947, 1952, 1954
  Ling Gao (CHN) 3 0 3 2004, 2006, 2007
  Dong-moon Kim (KOR) 1995, 2000, 2003
  Minarti Timur (INA) 1996, 1998, 2000
  Tri Kusharjanto (INA) 1996, 1998, 2000
  Kon Leong Chan (MAS) 0 3 1947, 1948, 1954
  Peng Soon Wong (SGP) 1937, 1938, 1940
  So-young Chung (KOR) 2 0 2 1989, 1991
  Gillian Clark (ENG) 1984, 1987
  Hanbin He (CHN) 2008, 2011
  Kyung-min Ra (KOR) 2000, 2003
  Liliyana Natsir (INA) 2009, 2016
  Jin Ma (CHN) 2011, 2014
  Martin Dew (ENG) 1983, 1984
  Michael Søgaard (DEN) 1993, 1999
  Joo-bong Park (KOR) 1989, 1990
  Verawaty Fadjrin (INA) 1986, 1988
  Jun Zhang (CHN) 2004, 2006
  Nan Zhang (CHN) 2012, 2015
  Yunlei Zhao (CHN) 2012, 2015
  Amy Choong (MAS) 0 2 1949, 1955
  Peck Sim Chia (MAS) 1953, 1956
  Ewe Beng Choong (MAS) 1949, 1963
  Chong Hong Goh (MAS) 1950, 1951
  Mei Ling Ng (MAS) 1962, 1965
  Retno Koestijah (INA) 1966, 1967
  Kew San Teh (MAS) 1962, 1965
  Valentine Chan (MAS) 1950, 1951
  Waileen Wong (SGP) 1937, 1938

Championships by country edit

Country Amateur Era Open Era All-time First title Last title
  Malaysia (MAS) 18.5 0 18.5 1939 1965
  China (CHN) 0 15 15 1997 2023
  Indonesia (INA) 2 7 9 1966 2016
  South Korea (KOR) 0 7 7 1989 2005
  Denmark (DEN) 1 4 5 1955 2013
  England (ENG) 0 4 4 1983 2002
  Singapore (SGP) 3 0 3 1937 1952
  Sweden (SWE) 0.5 1 1.5 1968 1994
  Japan (JPN) 0 1 1 2024

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "BWF World Tour Hosts 2023–2026 Announced". Badminton World Federation. 18 June 2022. Retrieved 18 June 2022.
  2. ^ "BWF Malaysia Open: Full list of title winners". Khel Now. 14 January 2024. Retrieved 15 April 2024.