Lucknow: Syed Modi International (Prize Money US$ 120000 ) Badminton Championships – 2016 scheduled to be held from January 26 to 31, 2016 at B.B.D. U.P. Badminton Academy, Gomti Nagar, Lucknow (U.P.) India, would be a star-studded affair as World’s Top shuttlers, Olympics bronze medalist and defending Champion Saina Nehwal confirmed her participation for the above mentioned Championships organized by Uttar Pradesh Badminton Association under the auspices of Badminton Association of India.

Shri Alok Ranjan, IAS, Chief Secretary, U.P. and President, U.P. Badminton Association informed in a Media Conference that it would quite exciting for fans to watch world’s top players in action in the Nawabi City.

“The presence of the big stars in all the categories would be good enough to excite fans,” said Shri Ranjan, who is also the President, Organizing Committee.

Organizing and Tournament Secretary Dr. Vijai Sinha also informed that Indian star P.V. Sindhu, P. Kashayp, K. Srikant, Ajay Jayaram, Jwala Gutta, Ashwini Ponnappa and also Top Foreign players like Tommy Sugiarto (Indonesia), Mathias Boe (Denmark), Vladimir Ivanov (Russia) etc. would be an added attraction to the categories.

“Saina & Sindhu’s presence would certainly make the field interesting for everyone,” said Dr. Vijai Sinha, who is also the Secretary General of Badminton Association of India.

The qualifying rounds will be played on January 26, 2016, whereas the main draw matches will take place from January 27. The finals are to be played on January 31, 2016.

Mr Anthony Linggian of Malaysia has been named Referee of the event, whereas Mr. David Chang of Chinese Taipei would be his Deputy.

The Inauguration of the Championships will be held on 26.01.2016 at 06:00 P.M. The Inauguration will be done by Shri Shivpal Singh Yadav, Hon’ble Minister, Cooperative & P.W.D., U.P. Govt. alongwith other Dignitaries. The inauguration will be followed by Cultural Programme.

Prize Distribution Ceremony will be held on 31.01.2016 at 05:00 P.M. by Shri Akhilesh Yadav, Hon’ble Chief Minister, U.P. On this occasion Dr. Akhilesh Das Gupta, President, B.A.I. and Shri Alok Ranjan, I.A.S., Chief Secretary, U.P. & President, U.P. Badminton Association will also be present with other Dignitaries.

Syed Modi International Badminton Championships 2016
Matches of Tuesday 1/26/2016
Date
26 - 31 Jan 2016
City, Country
Lucknow, IND

Time     Event                 Nr  Court Round Team 1 Team 2
9:00 AM XD - Qualification #7 R1 Utkarsh Arora+Mohita Sahdev (IND) (IND) Satwiksairaj Rankireddy+K. Maneesha
9:00 AM XD - Qualification #8 R1 Kashish Sharma+Daksha Gautam (IND) (IND) Satinder Malik+Teenu Dahiya
9:00 AM XD - Qualification #3 R1 Brijesh Yadav+Sraddha Tiwari (IND) (IND) Vishal Thakran+Seema Panchal
9:10 AM XD - Qualification #1 R1 Saurabh Sharma+Pooja D. (IND) (IND) Pranaav Jerry Chopra+Nelakurihi Sikki Reddy
9:10 AM XD - Qualification #5 R1 He Jiting+Du Yue (CHN) (IND) Shlok Ramchandran+Kuhoo Garg
9:10 AM XD - Qualification #6 R1 Rushikesh Mali+Rucha Nikam (IND) (IND) Kapil Chaudhary+Akanshi Baliyan
9:35 AM MD - Qualification #2 R1 Arun George+Santosh Ravuri (IND) (IND) Abhinav Prakash+Ravinder Singh
9:35 AM XD - Qualification #4 R1 Singh Vinay Kumar+Mukherjee Riya (IND) (MAS/IND) Yogendran Khrishnan+Prajakta Sawant
9:35 AM WD - Qualification #5 R1 Komal Antil+Lalita Dahiya (IND) (IND) Ningshi Block Hazarika+Harika Veludurthi
9:45 AM XD - Qualification #2 R1 K. Nandagopal+J. Meghana (IND) (IND) B. Sumeeth Reddy+S. Poorvisha Ram
9:45 AM MD - Qualification #3 R1 Jishnu Sanyal+Shivam Sharma (IND) (IND) Kamaldeep Singh+Neeraj Vashist
9:45 AM MD - Qualification #5 R1 Didit Juang+Christopher Rusdianto (INA) (IND) K. Dilshad+P. H. Suraj
10:10 AM WS - Qualification #1 R1 Rasika Raje (IND) (IND) Gadde Ruthvika Shivani
10:10 AM WS - Qualification #2 R1 Jin Wei Goh (MAS) (IND) Riya Pillai
10:10 AM WS - Qualification #8 R1 Saili Rane (IND) (IND) Mugdha Agrey
10:20 AM MS - Qualification #1 R1 Abhishek Singh (IND) (IND) Vipul Saini
10:20 AM MS - Qualification #3 R1 N. V. S. Vijetha (IND) (IND) Arun Kumar Ashok Kumar
10:20 AM MD - Qualification #6 R1 Mayank Behal+Tanveer Gill (IND) (IND) Harinder Malik+Satinder Malik
10:45 AM WS - Qualification #4 R1 Seema Panchal (IND) (IRI) Negin Amiripour
10:45 AM MD - Qualification #4 R1 Utkarsh Arora+Vighnesh Devlekar (IND) (CHN) He Jiting+Tan Qiang
10:55 AM MD - Qualification #8 R1 Chandrabhusan Tripathi+Brijesh Yadav (IND) (IND) Arjun M.R.+Chirag Shetty
10:55 AM MD - Qualification #1 R1 Rohan Kapoor+Saurabh Sharma (IND) (IND) Krishna Prasad Garaga+Satwiksairaj Rankireddy
10:55 AM WS - Qualification #6 R1 P. C. Thulasi (IND) (IND) Rucha Nikam
11:20 AM WS - Qualification #5 R1 Lekha Shehani (SRI) (IND) Lalita Dahiya
11:20 AM WS - Qualification #7 R1 Mukherjee Riya (IND) (IND) Teenu Dahiya
11:20 AM MD - Qualification #7 R1 Dinesh Chaudhry+Rushikesh Mali (IND) (IND) Alwin Francis+Kona Tarun
11:30 AM WS - Qualification #3 R1 Komal Antil (IND) (IND) Kuhoo Garg
11:30 AM MS - Qualification #4 R1 Ameya Oak (IND) (IND) Ansal Yadav
11:30 AM MS - Qualification #16 R1 Mayank Behal (IND) (IND) Jaswinder Singh
11:55 AM MS - Qualification #5 R1 Rupinder Singh (IND) (IND) Saurav Kapoor
11:55 AM MS - Qualification #9 R1 Aman Kumar (IND) (IND) Satinder Malik
11:55 AM MS - Qualification #15 R1 Ahmad Faheem Yari (AFG) (IND) Utkarsh Arora
12:05 PM MS - Qualification #6 R1 Karan Rajan Rajarajan (IND) (IND) Siddharth Pratap Singh
12:05 PM MS - Qualification #12 R1 Siddharth Jakhar (IND) (IND) Saurav Agrawal
12:05 PM MS - Qualification #14 R1 Chirag Sen (IND) (IND) Kartik Jindal
12:30 PM MS - Qualification #8 R1 Sachin Rawat (IND) (IND) Parteek Mahajan

Matches of Tuesday 1/26/2016
Date
26 - 31 Jan 2016
City, Country
Lucknow, IND

Time Event Nr Court Round Team 1 Team 2
12:30 PM MS - Qualification #11 R1 Rajat Joon (IND) (IND) Ashish Sharma
12:30 PM MS - Qualification #13 R1 Abhyansh Singh (IND) (IND) Manish Gupta
12:40 PM MS - Qualification #10 R1 Siddhant Salar (IND) (IND) Ankit Malik
12:40 PM MD - Qualification #12 R2 D. Chaudhry+R. Mali or A. Francis+Kona T. C. Tripathi+B. Yadav or A. M.R.+C. Shetty
1:05 PM WS - Qualification #10 R2 K. Antil or K. Garg S. Panchal or N. Amiripour
1:05 PM MD - Qualification #11 R2 D. Juang+C. Rusdianto or K. D. +P. H. S. M. Behal+T. Gill or H. Malik+S. Malik
1:05 PM WS - Qualification #12 R2 M. Riya or T. Dahiya S. Rane or M. Agrey
1:15 PM MS - Qualification #19 R2 R. Singh or S. Kapoor K. Rajarajan or S. Pratap Singh
1:15 PM MD - Qualification #10 R2 J. Sanyal+S. Sharma or K. Singh+N. Vashist U. Arora+V. Devlekar or He J. +Tan Q.
1:40 PM MS - Qualification #17 R2 A. Singh or V. Saini (IND) Mohit Kamat
1:40 PM MS - Qualification #18 R2 N. V. S. V. or A. Ashok Kumar A. Oak or A. Yadav
1:40 PM WD - Qualification #10 R2 S. Poorvisha Ram+Arathi Sara Sunil (IND) (IND) Prabhjyot Kour+Vaddepally Pramada
1:50 PM WS - Qualification #11 R2 L. Shehani or L. Dahiya P. C. T. or R. Nikam
1:50 PM MS - Qualification #23 R2 A. Singh or M. Gupta C. Sen or K. Jindal
1:50 PM MD - Qualification #9 R2 R. Kapoor+S. Sharma or K. Garaga+S. Rankireddy A. George+S. Ravuri or A. Prakash+R. Singh
2:15 PM MS - Qualification #21 R2 A. Kumar or S. Malik S. Salar or A. Malik
2:15 PM MS - Qualification #24 R2 A. Yari or U. Arora M. Behal or J. Singh
2:15 PM XD - Qualification #10 R2 B. Yadav+S. Tiwari or V. Thakran+S. Panchal S. Vinay Kumar+M. Riya or Y. Khrishnan+P. Sawant
2:25 PM MS - Qualification #20 R2 Gurpartap Singh Dhaliwal (IND) S. Rawat or P. Mahajan
2:25 PM MS - Qualification #22 R2 R. Joon or A. Sharma S. Jakhar or S. Agrawal
2:50 PM WS - Qualification #9 R2 R. Raje or Gadde R. J. Goh or R. Pillai
3:00 PM XD - Qualification #9 R2 S. Sharma+P. D. or P. Chopra+Nelakurihi S. K. N. +J. M. or B. S. +S. P.
3:00 PM XD - Qualification #11 R2 He J. +Du Y. or S. Ramchandran+K. Garg R. Mali+R. Nikam or K. Chaudhary+A. Baliyan
3:25 PM WD - Qualification #11 R2 K. Antil+L. Dahiya or N. Hazarika+H. Veludurthi (IND) Amolika Singh Sisodiya+Sraddha Tiwari
3:25 PM XD - Qualification #12 R2 U. Arora+M. Sahdev or S. Rankireddy+K. M. K. Sharma+D. Gautam or S. Malik+T. Dahiya