Smashing Stats: Swiss Open 2025

This week’s Super 300 YONEX Swiss Open 2025 rounds up the European leg of the HSBC BWF World Tour.

Learn more about the 70-year-old event.

  • China and Thailand possess seeds in all five disciplines.
  • China, currently on 52 total titles, can overtake Denmark (55) as the most successful nation with a sweep in Basel.
  • Germany remain the sole country to ace every category, doing so at the third edition in 1957.
  • Men’s singles, women’s doubles and mixed doubles produced winners representing different flags at each of the last five editions.
  • Among those were Malaysians Goh Soon Huat/Shevon Jemie Lai (2024), alongside Thai Pornpawee Chochuwong (2023), the only top seeds this year to have won their events.
  • Chai Biao/Hong Wei were the last to win successive times in 2014. Lin Chun Yi, Ben Lane/Sean Vendy and Goh/Lai stand to emulate them.
  • India are without a women’s doubles titlists but have strong contenders in fourth seeds Treesa Jolly/Gayatri Gopichand Pullela.
  • Similarly, third seeds Lee Jhe Huei/Yang Po Hsuan can get Chinese Taipei their first men’s doubles title.
  • In the SuperSeries/World Tour era (starting 2007), only players from five countries have won women’s singles – China, India, Japan, Spain and Thailand.
  • Fourth-seeded Indonesian Putri Kusuma Wardani and sixth-seeded American Beiwen Zhang are well-positioned to join the club.

Standout Stat: Men’s singles is the department that has not seen its holder defend the title the longest. It’s been 60 years since Dane Tage Nielsen won consecutive editions (1964-1965).

Lin, seen here after winning last year, can follow in Nielsen’s footsteps.

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