2016 Thomas & Uber Cup

Badminton tournament

2016 Thomas & Uber Cup
2016年汤姆斯杯和尤伯杯

Tournament details

Dates

15–22 May

Edition

29th (Thomas Cup)
26th (Uber Cup)

Level

International

Venue

Kunshan Sports Centre

Location

Kunshan, Jiangsu, China

← 2014 New Delhi

2018 Bangkok →

The 2016 Thomas & Uber Cup was the 29th tournament of the Thomas Cup and 26th tournament of the Uber Cup, the premier badminton team championships for men and women respectively. It was held at the Kunshan Sports Centre in Kunshan, Jiangsu Province, China.^[1]

Host city selection

Jakarta and Kunshan submitted bids for this championships, the same situation as the bid for 2015 BWF World Championships.^[1] Kunshan was named as the host in May 2014 during BWF Council meeting in New Delhi, India.

Qualifiers

Confederation	Qualifiers
Confederation	Thomas Cup	Uber Cup
Defending Champions	Japan	China
Host Nation	China	China
Africa	South Africa	Mauritius
Asia	India Indonesia South Korea Malaysia	India Japan South Korea Thailand
Europe	Denmark Germany England France	Denmark Germany Spain Bulgaria
Oceania	New Zealand	Australia
Pan America	Mexico	United States
By Ranking	Chinese Taipei Hong Kong Thailand	Chinese Taipei Hong Kong Indonesia Malaysia

Seedings

The seeding list was based on 3 March 2016 World Rankings.

Thomas Cup

China (Quarterfinal)
Denmark (Champion)
South Korea (Semifinal)
Indonesia (Final)
Japan (Quarterfinal)
Malaysia (Semifinal)
India (Group)
Chinese Taipei (Quarterfinal)
Hong Kong (Quarterfinal)
Thailand (Group)
England (Group)
Germany (Group)
France (Group)
Mexico (Group)
South Africa (Group)
New Zealand (Group)

Uber Cup

China (Champion)
Japan (Semifinal)
South Korea (Final)
Thailand (Quarterfinal)
India (Semifinal)
Indonesia (Quarterfinal)
Chinese Taipei (Quarterfinal)
Denmark (Quarterfinal)
Germany (Group)
Malaysia (Group)
Spain (Group)
Hong Kong (Group)
United States (Group)
Bulgaria (Group)
Australia (Group)
Mauritius (Group)

Squads

Medalists

Medal table

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Thomas Cup	Denmark Viktor Axelsen Jan Ø. Jørgensen Hans-Kristian Vittinghus Emil Holst Mathias Boe Mads Conrad-Petersen Mads Pieler Kolding Anders Skaarup Rasmussen Kim Astrup Mathias Christiansen	Indonesia Tommy Sugiarto Jonatan Christie Anthony Sinisuka Ginting Ihsan Maulana Mustofa Mohammad Ahsan Hendra Setiawan Angga Pratama Ricky Karanda Suwardi Marcus Fernaldi Gideon Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo	Malaysia Lee Chong Wei Iskandar Zulkarnain Zainuddin Goh Soon Huat Chong Wei Feng Goh V Shem Tan Wee Kiong Koo Kien Keat Tan Boon Heong Ong Yew Sin Teo Ee Yi
Thomas Cup	South Korea Son Wan-ho Lee Dong-keun Jeon Hyeok-jin Heo Kwang-hee Lee Yong-dae Yoo Yeon-seong Kim Gi-jung Kim Sa-rang Ko Sung-hyun Shin Baek-cheol
Uber Cup	China Li Xuerui Wang Yihan Wang Shixian Sun Yu Tang Yuanting Yu Yang Tian Qing Zhao Yunlei Chen Qingchen Tang Jinhua	South Korea Sung Ji-hyun Bae Yeon-ju Kim Hyo-min Lee Jang-mi Jung Kyung-eun Shin Seung-chan Lee So-hee Chang Ye-na Go Ah-ra Yoo Hae-won	Japan Nozomi Okuhara Akane Yamaguchi Sayaka Sato Aya Ohori Misaki Matsutomo Ayaka Takahashi Naoko Fukuman Kurumi Yonao Shizuka Matsuo Mami Naito
Uber Cup	India Saina Nehwal P. V. Sindhu Tanvi Lad Gadde Ruthvika Shivani P. C. Thulasi Ashwini Ponnappa Jwala Gutta N. Sikki Reddy K. Maneesha

* Host nation (China)


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China*	1	0	0	1
1	Denmark	1	0	0	1
3	South Korea	0	1	1	2
4	Indonesia	0	1	0	1
5	India	0	0	1	1
	Japan	0	0	1	1
	Malaysia	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		2	2	4	8

Thomas Cup

All times are UTC+08:00

Groups

Group A

Team	Pts	Pld	W	L
China	3	3	3	0
Japan	2	3	2	1
France	1	3	1	2
Mexico	0	3	0	3


15 May 2016
China	5–0	Mexico
Japan	5–0	France
16 May 2016
Japan	5–0	Mexico
China	5–0	France
18 May 2016
France	5–0	Mexico
China	5–0	Japan

Group B

Team	Pts	Pld	W	L
Indonesia	3	3	3	0
Hong Kong	2	3	2	1
Thailand	1	3	1	2
India	0	3	0	3


15 May 2016
India	2–3	Thailand
Indonesia	5–0	Hong Kong
17 May 2016
India	2–3	Hong Kong
Indonesia	4–1	Thailand
18 May 2016
Indonesia	5–0	India
Thailand	1–4	Hong Kong

Group C

Team	Pts	Pld	W	L
Malaysia	3	3	3	0
South Korea	2	3	2	1
England	1	3	1	2
Germany	0	3	0	3


15 May 2016
South Korea	5–0	Germany
Malaysia	4–1	England
16 May 2016
Malaysia	5–0	Germany
South Korea	5–0	England
17 May 2016
South Korea	2–3	Malaysia
England	4–1	Germany

Group D

Team	Pts	Pld	W	L
Denmark	3	3	3	0
Chinese Taipei	2	3	2	1
New Zealand	1	3	1	2
South Africa	0	3	0	3


16 May 2016
Denmark	5–0	South Africa
Chinese Taipei	5–0	New Zealand
17 May 2016
Denmark	5–0	New Zealand
Chinese Taipei	5–0	South Africa
18 May 2016
Denmark	3–2	Chinese Taipei
New Zealand	4–1	South Africa

Knockout stage

Quarter-finals		Semi-finals		Final

19 May 2016

China	1
		20 May 2016
South Korea	3
		South Korea	1
19 May 2016
		Indonesia	3
Indonesia	3
				22 May 2016
Hong Kong	1
				Indonesia	2
19 May 2016
				Denmark	3
Chinese Taipei	1
		20 May 2016
Malaysia	3
		Malaysia	2
19 May 2016
		Denmark	3
Japan	2

Denmark	3

Quarterfinals

Chinese Taipei
1

Kunshan Sports Centre, Court 2
19 May 2016
13:00

Malaysia
3

		1	2	3
1	Chou Tien-chen Lee Chong Wei	18 21	18 21
2	Lee Sheng-mu / Tsai Chia-hsin Goh V Shem / Tan Wee Kiong	16 21	21 19	21 19
3	Hsu Jen-hao Iskandar Zulkarnain Zainuddin	8 21	13 21
4	Chen Hung-ling / Wang Chi-lin Koo Kien Keat / Tan Boon Heong	16 21	20 22
5	Wang Tzu-wei Chong Wei Feng				not played

Indonesia
3

Kunshan Sports Centre, Court 3
19 May 2016
13:00

Hong Kong
1

		1	2	3
1	Tommy Sugiarto Ng Ka Long	11 21	21 19	21 15
2	Mohammad Ahsan / Hendra Setiawan Or Chin Chung / Tang Chun Man	17 21	19 21
3	Jonatan Christie Hu Yun	21 14	18 21	21 16
4	Angga Pratama / Ricky Karanda Suwardi Law Cheuk Him / Yeung Shing Choi	21 16	21 14
5	Ihsan Maulana Mustofa Wei Nan				not played

China
1

Kunshan Sports Centre, Court 1
19 May 2016
19:00

South Korea
3

		1	2	3
1	Chen Long Son Wan-ho	12 21	21 16	15 21
2	Fu Haifeng / Zhang Nan Lee Yong-dae / Yoo Yeon-seong	25 23	21 23	12 21
3	Lin Dan Lee Dong-keun	21 10	21 15
4	Li Junhui / Zheng Siwei Kim Gi-jung / Kim Sa-rang	15 21	18 21
5	Tian Houwei Jeon Hyeok-jin				not played

Japan
2

Kunshan Sports Centre, Court 4
19 May 2016
19:00

Denmark
3

		1	2	3
1	Sho Sasaki Viktor Axelsen	13 21	16 21
2	Hiroyuki Endo / Kenichi Hayakawa Mathias Boe / Mads Conrad-Petersen	16 21	17 21
3	Takuma Ueda Jan Ø. Jørgensen	21 13	13 21	21 10
4	Takeshi Kamura / Keigo Sonoda Kim Astrup / Anders Skaarup Rasmussen	21 15	21 17
5	Riichi Takeshita Hans-Kristian Vittinghus	21 23	17 21

Semifinals

South Korea
1

Kunshan Sports Centre, Court 2
20 May 2016
13:00

Indonesia
3

		1	2
1	Son Wan-ho Jonatan Christie	21 10	21 16
2	Lee Yong-dae / Yoo Yeon-seong Mohammad Ahsan / Hendra Setiawan	15 21	12 21
3	Lee Dong-keun Anthony Sinisuka Ginting	18 21	18 21
4	Kim Gi-jung / Kim Sa-rang Angga Pratama / Ricky Karanda Suwardi	15 21	18 21
5	Jeon Hyeok-jin Ihsan Maulana Mustofa			not played

Malaysia
2

Kunshan Sports Centre, Court 1
20 May 2016
19:00

Denmark
3

		1	2	3
1	Lee Chong Wei Viktor Axelsen	23 21	21 18
2	Goh V Shem / Tan Wee Kiong Mathias Boe / Mads Conrad-Petersen	21 18	21 18
3	Iskandar Zulkarnain Zainuddin Hans-Kristian Vittinghus	18 21	18 21
4	Koo Kien Keat / Tan Boon Heong Kim Astrup / Anders Skaarup Rasmussen	21 10	8 21	13 21
5	Chong Wei Feng Emil Holst	15 21	18 21

Final

Indonesia
2

Kunshan Sports Centre, Court 1
22 May 2016
13:00

Denmark
3

		1	2
1	Tommy Sugiarto Viktor Axelsen	17 21	18 21
2	Mohammad Ahsan / Hendra Setiawan Mads Conrad-Petersen / Mads Pieler Kolding	21 18	21 13
3	Anthony Sinisuka Ginting Jan Ø. Jørgensen	17 21	12 21
4	Angga Pratama / Ricky Karanda Suwardi Kim Astrup / Anders Skaarup Rasmussen	21 16	21 14
5	Ihsan Maulana Mustofa Hans-Kristian Vittinghus	15 21	7 21

2016 Thomas Cup champion
Denmark First title

Final ranking

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	MD	GD	PD	Final result
	Denmark	6	6	0	6	+14	+29	+263	Champions
	Indonesia	6	5	1	5	+16	+17	+148	Runners-up

	Malaysia	5	4	1	4	+10	+22	+168	Eliminated in semi-finals
	South Korea	5	3	2	3	+9	+16	+152	Eliminated in semi-finals

5	China	4	3	1	3	+13	+24	+235	Eliminated in quarter-finals
6	Chinese Taipei	4	2	2	2	+7	+12	+149
7	Japan	4	2	2	2	+4	+9	+118
8	Hong Kong	4	2	2	2	−3	−4	+30

9	Thailand	3	1	2	1	−5	−9	−67	Eliminated in group stage
10	England	3	1	2	1	−5	−10	−53
11	France	3	1	2	1	−5	−10	−71
12	New Zealand	3	1	2	1	−7	−16	−176
13	India	3	0	3	0	−7	−12	−114
14	South Africa	3	0	3	0	−13	−24	−233
15	Germany	3	0	3	0	−13	−26	−249
16	Mexico	3	0	3	0	−15	−28	−300

Uber Cup

All times are UTC+08:00

Groups

Group A

Team	Pts	Pld	W	L
China	3	3	3	0
Denmark	2	3	2	1
Malaysia	1	3	1	2
Spain	0	3	0	3


15 May 2016
China	5–0	Malaysia
Denmark	4–1	Spain
17 May 2016
Denmark	3–2	Malaysia
China	5–0	Spain
18 May 2016
Spain	2–3	Malaysia
China	5–0	Denmark

Group B

Team	Pts	Pld	W	L
South Korea	3	3	3	0
Chinese Taipei	2	3	2	1
United States	1	3	1	2
Mauritius	0	3	0	3


15 May 2016
Chinese Taipei	5–0	Mauritius
South Korea	5–0	United States
16 May 2016
South Korea	5–0	Mauritius
Chinese Taipei	5–0	United States
18 May 2016
Mauritius	0–5	United States
South Korea	4–1	Chinese Taipei

Group C

Team	Pts	Pld	W	L
Thailand	3	3	3	0
Indonesia	2	3	2	1
Hong Kong	1	3	1	2
Bulgaria	0	3	0	3


15 May 2016
Thailand	4–1	Hong Kong
Indonesia	5–0	Bulgaria
16 May 2016
Thailand	5–0	Bulgaria
Indonesia	3–2	Hong Kong
17 May 2016
Bulgaria	2–3	Hong Kong
Thailand	3–2	Indonesia

Group D

Team	Pts	Pld	W	L
Japan	3	3	3	0
India	2	3	2	1
Germany	1	3	1	2
Australia	0	3	0	3


16 May 2016
India	5–0	Australia
Japan	5–0	Germany
17 May 2016
India	5–0	Germany
Japan	5–0	Australia
18 May 2016
Japan	3–2	India
Australia	1–4	Germany

Knockout stage

Quarter-finals		Semi-finals		Final

19 May 2016

China	3
		20 May 2016
Chinese Taipei	0
		China	3
19 May 2016
		India	0
Thailand	1
				21 May 2016
India	3
				China	3
19 May 2016
				South Korea	1
Indonesia	0
		20 May 2016
South Korea	3
		South Korea	3
19 May 2016
		Japan	1
Denmark	0

Japan	3

Quarterfinals

Thailand
1

Kunshan Sports Centre, Court 1
19 May 2016
13:00

India
3

		1	2
1	Ratchanok Intanon Saina Nehwal	21 12	21 19
2	Busanan Ongbumrungphan Pusarla Venkata Sindhu	18 21	7 21
3	Puttita Supajirakul / Sapsiree Taerattanachai Jwala Gutta / Ashwini Ponnappa	19 21	12 21
4	Nitchaon Jindapol Ruthvika Shivani Gadde	18 21	16 21
5	Jongkolphan Kititharakul / Rawinda Prajongjai Sikki Reddy Nelakurthi / Pusarla Venkata Sindhu			not played

Indonesia
0

Kunshan Sports Centre, Court 4
19 May 2016
13:00

South Korea
3

		1	2	3
1	Maria Febe Kusumastuti Sung Ji-hyun	13 21	12 21
2	Anggia Shitta Awanda / Greysia Polii Jung Kyung-eun / Shin Seung-chan	13 21	19 21
3	Fitriani Bae Yeon-ju	13 21	21 14	15 21
4	Della Destiara Haris / Rosyita Eka Putri Sari Chang Ye-na / Lee So-hee				not played
5	Gregoria Mariska Kim Hyo-min				not played

China
3

Kunshan Sports Centre, Court 2
19 May 2016
19:00

Chinese Taipei
0

		1	2
1	Li Xuerui Pai Yu-po	21 14	21 17
2	Wang Shixian Hsu Ya-ching	21 16	21 12
3	Tian Qing / Zhao Yunlei Hsieh Pei-chen / Wu Ti-jung	21 11	21 14
4	Wang Yihan Chiang Mei-hui			not played
5	Chen Qingchen / Tang Yuanting Chen Hsiao-huan / Hsu Ya-ching			not played

Denmark
0

Kunshan Sports Centre, Court 3
19 May 2016
19:00

Japan
3

		1	2
1	Line Kjaersfeldt Nozomi Okuhara	11 21	18 21
2	Christinna Pedersen / Kamilla Rytter Juhl Misaki Matsutomo / Ayaka Takahashi	21 23	16 21
3	Mette Poulsen Akane Yamaguchi	15 21	11 21
4	Line Kjaersfeldt / Sara Thygesen Naoko Fukuman / Kurumi Yonao			not played
5	Anna Thea Madsen Sayaka Sato			not played

Semifinals

China
3

Kunshan Sports Centre, Court 1
20 May 2016
13:00

India
0

		1	2	3
1	Li Xuerui Saina Nehwal	21 15	12 21	21 17
2	Wang Shixian Pusarla Venkata Sindhu	21 13	23 21
3	Tian Qing / Zhao Yunlei Jwala Gutta / Sikki Reddy Nelakurthi	21 6	21 6
4	Wang Yihan Ruthvika Shivani Gadde				not played
5	Chen Qingchen / Tang Yuanting Ashwini Ponnappa / Pusarla Venkata Sindhu				not played

South Korea
3

Kunshan Sports Centre, Court 2
20 May 2016
19:00

Japan
1

		1	2	3
1	Sung Ji-hyun Nozomi Okuhara	21 13	21 13
2	Jung Kyung-eun / Shin Seung-chan Misaki Matsutomo / Ayaka Takahashi	21 19	15 21	21 16
3	Bae Yeon-ju Akane Yamaguchi	17 21	7 9		retired
4	Chang Ye-na / Lee So-hee Naoko Fukuman / Kurumi Yonao	21 15	21 14
5	Kim Hyo-min Sayaka Sato				not played

Final

China
3

Kunshan Sports Centre, Court 1
21 May 2016
13:00

South Korea
1

		1	2	3
1	Li Xuerui Sung Ji-hyun	14 21	21 13	21 10
2	Tian Qing / Zhao Yunlei Jung Kyung-eun / Shin Seung-chan	21 16	17 21	23 25
3	Wang Shixian Kim Hyo-min	21 13	21 12
4	Tang Yuanting / Chen Qingchen Chang Ye-na / Lee So-hee	21 14	21 16
5	Wang Yihan Lee Jang-mi				not played

2016 Uber Cup champion
China Fourteenth title

Final ranking

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	MD	GD	PD	Final result
	China	6	6	0	6	+23	+42	+419	Champions
	South Korea	6	5	1	5	+16	+29	+315	Runners-up

	Japan	5	4	1	4	+12	+24	+253	Eliminated in semi-finals
	India	5	3	2	3	+8	+16	+143	Eliminated in semi-finals

5	Thailand	4	3	1	3	+7	+13	+100	Eliminated in quarter-finals
6	Chinese Taipei	4	2	2	2	+4	+8	+151
7	Indonesia	4	2	2	2	+2	+6	+61
8	Denmark	4	2	2	2	−4	−9	−91

9	Hong Kong	3	1	2	1	−3	−8	−84	Eliminated in group stage
10	Malaysia	3	1	2	1	−5	−7	−71
11	United States	3	1	2	1	−5	−11	−98
12	Germany	3	1	2	1	−7	−14	−157
13	Spain	3	0	3	0	−9	−17	−170
14	Bulgaria	3	0	3	0	−11	−20	−136
15	Australia	3	0	3	0	−13	−24	−231
16	Mauritius	3	0	3	0	−15	−28	−404

References

^ ^a ^b "Next Thomas-Uber Stop – Kunshan, China!". Archived from the original on 12 March 2017. Retrieved 25 October 2014.

External links

Official website
BWF Thomas & Uber Cups 2016 at tournamentsoftware.com

Thomas Cup & Uber Cup

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