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