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BWF World Tour Finals 2025: Groups, Format, Schedule; Full Details

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The BWF World Tour Finals 2025, the final tournament of the 2025 BWF World Tour is scheduled from 17 to 21 December 2025 in Hangzhou, China.

This is the eighth edition of the BWF World Tour Finals and is organized by the Chinese Badminton Association with sanction from the BWF.

The event will be hosted at the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Centre Gymnasium

The BWF World Tour Finals succeeds BWF Super Series Finals. It is an annual season finale badminton tournament which is held every December of a year where the players with the most points from that calendar year’s events of the BWF World Tour compete for the season-finale title.

BWF World Tour Finals 2025: Format

The event is a five-day tournament which will be played in the following structure:

  1. Group Stage (Round Robin)
  • The eight qualifiers in each discipline are divided into two groups of four (Group A and Group B).
  • Players/pairs compete against every other opponent in their group (three matches each).
  • The matches are played in a best-of-three games format to 21 points.

    2. Knockout Stage

  • The top two players/pairs from each group advance to the knockout stage.
  • The knockout stage consists of Semi-finals and a Final.
  • In the Semi-finals, the winner of Group A plays the runner-up of Group B, and the winner of Group B plays the runner-up of Group A.
  • The winners of the Semi-finals compete in the Final to determine the season champion.

BWF World Tour Finals 2025: Group Draws

Men’s Singles

Group A

  • Kunlavut Vitidsarn (THA, 1)
  • Anders Antonsen (DEN, 4)
  • Christo Popov (FRA, 5)
  • Jonatan Christie (INA, 6)

Group B

  • Li Shifeng (CHN, 2)
  • Chou Tien-Chen (TPE, 3)
  • Shi Yuqi (CHN, 7)
  • Naraoka Kodai (JPN, 8)

Women’s Singles

Group A

  • An Se-young (KOR, 1)
  • Yamaguchi Akane (JPN, 4)
  • Putri Kusuma Wardani (INA, 5)
  • Miyazaki Tomoka (JPN, 8)

Group B

  • Wang Zhiyi (CHN, 2)
  • Han Yue (CHN, 3)
  • Pornpawee Chochuwong (THA, 6)
  • Ratchanok Intanon (THA, 7)

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Men’s Doubles

Group A

  • Kim Won Ho / Seo Seung Jae (KOR, 1)
  • Man Wei Chong / Kai Wun Tee (MAS, 4)
  • Sabar Karyaman Gutama / Moh Reza Pahlevi Isfahani (INA, 5)
  • Chiu Hsiang Chieh / Wang Chi-Lin (TPE, 7)

Group B

  • Aaron Chia / Soh Wooi Yik (MAS, 2)
  • Satwiksairaj Rankireddy / Chirag Shetty (IND, 3)
  • Liang Wei Keng / Wang Chang (CHN, 6)
  • Fajar Alfian / Muhammad Shohibul Fikri (INA, 8)

Women’s Doubles

Group A

  • Pearly Tan / Thinaah Muralitharan (MAS, 1)
  • Jia Yifan / Zhang Shu Xian (CHN, 4)
  • Yuki Fukushima / Mayu Matsumoto (JPN, 5)
  • Iwanaga Rin / Nakanishi Kie (JPN, 6)

Group B

  • Kim Hye Jeong / Kong Hee Yong (KOR, 2)
  • Liu Shengshu / Tan Ning (CHN, 3)
  • Baek Ha Na / Lee So Hee (KOR, 7)
  • Hsieh Pei Shan / Hung En-Tzu (TPE, 8)

Mixed Doubles

Group A

  • Dechapol Puavaranukroh / Supissara Paewsampran (THA, 1)
  • Jiang Zhen Bang / Wei Ya Xin (CHN, 4)
  • Thom Gicquel / Delphine Delrue (FRA, 6)
  • Midorikawa Hiroki / Saito Natsu (JPN, 7)

Group B

  • Feng Yan Zhe / Huang Dong Ping (CHN, 2)
  • Chen Tang Jie / Toh Ee Wei (MAS, 3)
  • Goh Soon Huat / Lai Shevon Jemie (MAS, 5)
  • Jafar Hidayatullah / Felisha Alberta Nathaniel Pasaribu (INA, 8)

BWF World Tour Finals 2025: Schedule

  • 17 December 2025 – Group stages
  • 18 December 2025 – Group stages
  • 19 December 2025 – Group stages
  • 20 December 2025 – Semi-finals
  • 21 December 2025 – Finals