List of All England women's doubles champions
The champions and runners-up of the All England Open Badminton Championships Ladies' Doubles tournament, first introduced to the championship in 1899. From 1915 to 1919, and from 1940 to 1946, no competition was held due to the two World Wars.
Location | Birmingham United Kingdom |
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Venue | Utilita Arena Birmingham |
Governing body | NEC Group |
Created | 1899 |
Editions | Total: 113 Open era (1980): 43 |
Prize money | $62,900 (2021) |
Trophy | Ladies' Doubles Trophy |
Website | allenglandbadminton.com |
Most titles | |
Amateur era | 10: Meriel Lucas |
Open era | 6: Gao Ling 6: Huang Sui |
Most consecutive titles | |
Amateur era | 7: Meriel Lucas |
Open era | 6: Gao Ling 6: Huang Sui |
Current champion | |
Nami Matsuyama Chiharu Shida – 2022 (First title) |
History
In the Amateur era, Meriel Lucas (1899-1900, 1902, 1904-1910) holds the record for the most titles in the Ladies' Doubles, winning All England ten times. Lucas also holds the record for most consecutive titles with seven from 1904 to 1910.
Since the Open era of badminton began in late 1979[1][2] with the inclusion of professional badminton players from around the world in 1980, Gao Ling and Huang Sui (2001-2006) holds the record for most and also consecutive victories with six.
Gillian Perrin, Nora Gardner, Atsuko Tokuda, Yoshiko Yonekura and Verawaty Fadjrin are the only players in history to reach the All England Open Badminton Ladies' Doubles Final in both the Amateur and Open Era. Perrin managed to do so a total of seven times, winning twice in the Amateur Era and once in the Open Era, Gardner four, winning twice in the Open Era, Tokuda thrice, with a sole victory in the Amateur Era and both Yonekura and Fadjrin twice, with Fadjrin registering a victory in the Amateur Era.
Finalists
Amateur era
Open era
Statistics
Multiple champions
Bold indicates active players.
Champions by country
Rank | Country | Amateur era | Open era | All-time | First title | Last title | First champions | Last champions |
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1 | ![]() | 44.5 | 2 | 46.5 | 1899 | 1981 | Meriel Lucas Mary Graeme | Nora Gardner Jane Webster |
2 | ![]() | 0 | 24 | 24 | 1982 | 2019 | Ying Lin Dixi Wu | Qingchen Chen Yifan Jia |
3 | ![]() | 0 | 12 | 12 | 1986 | 2017 | Myung-hee Chung Hye-young Hwang | Ye-na Chang So-hee Lee |
4 | ![]() | 10 | 1 | 11 | 1939 | 2018 | Ruth Dalsgaard Tonny Olsen | Christinna Pedersen Kamilla Rytter Juhl |
5 | ![]() | 6 | 3 | 9 | 1971 | 2021 | Noriko Takagi Hiroe Yuki | Mayu Matsumoto Wakana Nagahara |
6 | ![]() | 3.5 | 0 | 3.5 | 1958 | 1966 | Margaret Varner Heather Ward | Judy Devlin![]() |
7 | ![]() | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1926 | 1966 | A. M. Head![]() | Sue Devlin![]() |
![]() | 2 | 0 | 1968 | 1979 | Retno Koestijah Minarni Sudaryanto | Verawaty Fadjrin Imelda Wiguna | ||
9 | ![]() | 0.5 | 0 | 0.5 | 1967 | 1967 | Imre Rietveld![]() | Imre Rietveld![]() |
Multiple finalists
Bold indicates active players.
Italic indicates players who never won the championship.
Notes
- Dorothea Lambert Chambers formerly known as Dorothea Douglass, married 1907
- Margaret Tragett formerly known as Margaret Larminie, married 1911
- Mrs Reynolds was an assumed name
- Margaret Stocks formerly known as Margaret McKane, married 1922
- Marjorie Barrett formerly known as Marjory East, married 1915
- Marje Henderson formerly Marje Bell, married in 1933
- Tonny Ahm formerly known as Tonny Olsen
- Iris Rogers formerly Iris Cooley, married in 1956
- June Timperley formerly June White, married in 1955
- Judy Hashman formerly Judy Devlin, married in 1960
- Sue Peard formerly Sue Devlin
- Ulla Strand formerly Ulla Rasmussen
- Gillian Gilks formerly Gillian Perrin, married in 1970
- Nora Perry formerly Nora Gardner, married in 1976
See also
References
- "All England Open History: long trousers to Lin Dan". www.allenglandbadminton.com. 25 February 2015. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
- Brahms, Bernd-Volker (17 January 2014). Badminton Handbook. Bernd-Volker Brahms. p. 1972. ISBN 9781782553540. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
External links
- All England Champions 1899-2007
- BadmintonEngland.co.uk
- badmintoneurope.com
- Pat Davis: The Encyclopaedia of Badminton. Robert Hale, London, 1987, ISBN 0-7090-2796-6