Malaysia Masters

This article is about the badminton tournament. For other similarly named sporting events, see Malaysian Masters (disambiguation).

The Malaysia Masters (Malay: Masters Malaysia) is an annual badminton tournament held in Malaysia that began in 2009. The total prize money is currently US$420,000.^[1]

Malaysia Masters

Official website
Founded	2009; 16 years ago (2009)
Editions	15 (2024)
Location	Kuala Lumpur (2024) Malaysia
Venue	Axiata Arena (2024)
Prize money	US$420,000
Men's
Draw	32S / 32D
Current champions	Viktor Axelsen (singles) Kim Astrup Anders Skaarup Rasmussen (doubles)
Most singles titles	5 Lee Chong Wei
Most doubles titles	3 Koo Kien Keat Tan Boon Heong
Women's
Draw	32S / 32D
Current champions	Wang Zhiyi (singles) Rin Iwanaga Kie Nakanishi (doubles)
Most singles titles	2 P. V. Sindhu Ratchanok Intanon
Most doubles titles	2 Christinna Pedersen Kamilla Rytter Juhl
Mixed doubles
Draw	32
Current champions	Goh Soon Huat Shevon Jemie Lai
Most titles (male)	3 Zheng Siwei
Most titles (female)	3 Huang Yaqiong
Super 500
Arctic Open Australian Open Canada Open Hong Kong Open Indonesia Masters Japan Masters Korea Open Malaysia Masters Thailand Open
Last completed
2024 Malaysia Masters

Until 2017, the tournament was part of the Grand Prix Gold series. BWF categorised Malaysia Masters as one of the seven BWF World Tour Super 500 events in the BWF events structure since 2018.^[2]

Host cities

Since the Malaysia Masters began in 1985, it has been held in 7 cities across Malaysia.

City	Years host
Ipoh	1985
Johor Bahru	2009–2010, 2012, 2014
Alor Setar	2011
Kuala Lumpur	2013, 2018–2020, 2022–2024
Kuching	2015
George Town	2016
Sibu	2017

2009–2010, 2012, 2014

2011

2013, 2018–2020, 2022–2024

2015

2016

2017

Locations of Malaysia Masters host cities

Winners

Year	Men's singles	Women's singles	Men's doubles	Women's doubles	Mixed doubles	Ref
1985	Morten Frost	Han Aiping	Li Yongbo Tian Bingyi	Han Aiping Li Lingwei	Steen Fladberg Nora Perry	[3][4]
2009	Lee Chong Wei	Wang Shixian	Koo Kien Keat Tan Boon Heong	Ma Jin Wang Xiaoli	Zheng Bo Ma Jin
2010		Yip Pui Yin	Markis Kido Hendra Setiawan	Duanganong Aroonkesorn Kunchala Voravichitchaikul	Devin Lahardi Fitriawan Liliyana Natsir
2011		Wang Xin	Koo Kien Keat Tan Boon Heong	Miyuki Maeda Satoko Suetsuna	Tontowi Ahmad Liliyana Natsir
2012		Busanan Ongbamrungphan		Chin Eei Hui Wong Pei Tty	Chan Peng Soon Goh Liu Ying
2013	Alamsyah Yunus	P. V. Sindhu	Goh V Shem Lim Khim Wah	Rizki Amelia Pradipta Pia Zebadiah Bernadet	Praveen Jordan Vita Marissa
2014	Simon Santoso	Yao Xue	Danny Bawa Chrisnanta Chayut Triyachart	Huang Yaqiong Yu Xiaohan	Lu Kai Huang Yaqiong
2015	Lee Hyun-il	Nozomi Okuhara	Kenta Kazuno Kazushi Yamada	Christinna Pedersen Kamilla Rytter Juhl	Joachim Fischer Nielsen Christinna Pedersen
2016	Lee Chong Wei	P. V. Sindhu	Marcus Fernaldi Gideon Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo	Misaki Matsutomo Ayaka Takahashi	Zheng Siwei Li Yinhui
2017	Ng Ka Long	Saina Nehwal	Berry Angriawan Hardianto	Jongkolphan Kititharakul Rawinda Prajongjai	Tan Kian Meng Lai Pei Jing
2018	Viktor Axelsen	Ratchanok Intanon	Fajar Alfian Muhammad Rian Ardianto	Christinna Pedersen Kamilla Rytter Juhl	Tang Chun Man Tse Ying Suet
2019	Son Wan-ho		Marcus Fernaldi Gideon Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo	Yuki Fukushima Sayaka Hirota	Yuta Watanabe Arisa Higashino
2020	Kento Momota	Chen Yufei	Kim Gi-jung Lee Yong-dae	Li Wenmei Zheng Yu	Zheng Siwei Huang Yaqiong
2021	No competition
2022	Chico Aura Dwi Wardoyo	An Se-young	Fajar Alfian Muhammad Rian Ardianto	Chen Qingchen Jia Yifan	Zheng Siwei Huang Yaqiong
2023	Prannoy H. S.	Akane Yamaguchi	Kang Min-hyuk Seo Seung-jae	Baek Ha-na Lee So-hee	Dechapol Puavaranukroh Sapsiree Taerattanachai
2024	Viktor Axelsen	Wang Zhiyi	Kim Astrup Anders Skaarup Rasmussen	Rin Iwanaga Kie Nakanishi	Goh Soon Huat Shevon Jemie Lai	[5]

Performances by nation

As of the 2024 edition

Pos	Nation	MS	WS	MD	WD	XD	Total
1	China		6	1	5	5	17
2	Indonesia	3		6	1	3	13
	Malaysia	5		4	1	3	13
4	Japan	1	2	1	4	1	9
5	Denmark	3		1	2	1.5	7.5
6	South Korea	2	1	2	1		6
	Thailand		3		2	1	6
8	India	1	3				4
9	Hong Kong	1	1			1	3
10	Singapore			1			1
11	England					0.5	0.5
Total		16	16	16	16	16	80