1977 Asian Invitational Badminton Championships

The 1977 Asian Invitational Badminton Championships which was the second edition of Asian Invitational Championships took place in the month of February in Hong Kong.[1] The individual competitions except Mixed doubles were conducted.[2] A total of thirteen Asian countries took part in this event.[3] At the end of day, China won all the disciplines except Men's doubles which was won by Indonesia.[4][5]

1977 Asian Invitational Badminton Championships
Tournament details
Dates23 – 27 February
Edition2
LocationHong Kong
1976 Bangkok 1978 Peking

Medalists

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Discipline Gold Silver Bronze
Men's singles   Yu Yaodong   Luan Jin   Lin Shiquan
Women's singles   Liang Qiuxia   Liu Xia   Saori Kondo
Men's doubles   Johan Wahjudi
  Tjun Tjun
  Ade Chandra
  Christian Hadinata
  Yao Ximing
  Sun Zhian
Women's doubles   Liang Qiuxia
  Liu Xia
  Mikiko Takada
  Atsuko Tokuda
  Rosalind Singha Ang
  Sylvia Ng

Men's singles

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Semifinal Final
          
  Yu Yaodong 15 15
  Lin Shiquan 5 9
  Yu Yaodong 15 15
  Luan Jin 6 8
  Yao Ximing 4 6
  Luan Jin 15 15 Third place
  Lin Shiquan 15 15
  Yao Ximing 5 9

Women's singles

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Semifinal Final
          
  Liang Qiuxia 11 11
  Saori Kondo 7 3
  Liang Qiuxia 11 11
  Liu Xia 5 7
  Park Ok-yun 3 1
  Liu Xia 11 11 Third place
  Saori Kondo 11 6 11
  Park Ok-yun 1 11 3

Men's doubles

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Semi-finals Final
          
  Ade Chandra
  Christian Hadinata
18 15
  Yao Ximing
  Sun Zhian
17 7
  Ade Chandra
  Christian Hadinata
17 2 5
  Johan Wahjudi
  Tjun Tjun
14 15 15
  Hou Jiachang
  Yu Yaodong
11 15 4
  Johan Wahjudi
  Tjun Tjun
15 8 15 Third place
  Yao Ximing
  Sun Zhian
w / o
  Hou Jiachang
  Yu Yaodong

Women's doubles

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Semi-finals Final
          
  Rosalind Singha Ang
  Sylvia Ng
15 9 3
  Liang Qiuxia
  Liu Xia
7 15 15
  Liang Qiuxia
  Liu Xia
15 15
  Mikiko Takada
  Atsuko Tokuda
7 6
  Mikiko Takada
  Atsuko Tokuda
15 10 15
  Kingmanee Thongkam
  Sirisriro Patama
5 15 5 Third place
  Rosalind Singha Ang
  Sylvia Ng
15 15
  Kingmanee Thongkam
  Sirisriro Patama
7 3

References

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  1. ^ "Second seed Bandid beats Ahmad". The Straits Times. 24 February 1977. p. 23.
  2. ^ "Swie King falls to China's Yu". The Straits Times. 25 February 1977. p. 21.
  3. ^ "China are sure of winning men's title". The Straits Times. 26 February 1977. p. 22.
  4. ^ "Liang and Liu make it an all Chinese final". The Straits Times. 27 February 1977. p. 30.
  5. ^ "Yu and Liang are Asia's no. 1". The Straits Times. 28 February 1977. p. 24.