The 2018 Badminton Asia Team Championships was the second edition of Badminton Asia Team Championships, held at the Sultan Abdul Halim Stadium in Alor Setar, Malaysia, from 6 to 11 February 2018 and were organised by the Badminton Asia. This tournament also served as the Asian qualification for the 2018 Thomas & Uber Cup.
Background The 2018 Badminton Asia Team Championships officially crowned the best male and female national badminton teams in Asia and at the same time worked as the Asian qualification event towards the 2018 Thomas & Uber Cup finals. 28 teams, consisting of 15 men's teams and 13 women's teams entered the tournament.
Competition format The competition begins with a group stage: all participating teams are divided into four groups of two or three teams each. Each team plays each other once, with the top two teams advancing to the knockout stage. A match is won by the team that first wins three games. The eight teams that qualify will be drawn and compete in a knockout format until the final.
Tie-breaker
Team ranking within a group is determined based on the following criteria: number of wins; match difference; game difference; and points difference. If two teams are tied after a criterion is applied, the winner of the match between the two teams will be ranked higher. A draw will be held to determine ranking if there are still teams tied after all criteria are applied.
Hosting On 29 September 2017, Malaysia were chosen to host the Badminton Asia Team Championships in Alor Setar and will be using the Sultan Abdul Halim Stadium as the venue for the entire tournament.
Schedule Day, DateTimePhaseTuesday, 6 February09:00Group Stage14:0019:00Wednesday, 7 February09:00Group Stage14:0019:00Thursday, 8 February09:00Group Stage14:0019:00Friday, 9 February08:30Quarter-finals17:00Saturday, 10 February12:00Semi-finals18:00Sunday, 11 February12:00Finals18:00Note: All times are in Malaysia Standard Time (UTC+08:00)
Teams
The tournament will feature 15 teams competing in the men's category and 13 teams in the women's category. NationMen'sWomen'sNationMen'sWomen's
Draw Seedings The seeding were as follows: Men's team
Women's team
Drawn groups The draw was held on 23 January 2018, at the tournament venue. The men's team group stage consisted of one group with three teams and three groups each with four teams. The women's team group stage consisted of three groups each with three teams and one group with four teams. Men's team Group A Group B Group C Group D (1) (8) (4) (6) (3) (7, H) (2) (5)
Women's team Group W Group X Group Y Group Z (1) (6) (3) (5) (4) (8, H) (2) (7)
Medal summary Medal table
Medalists Men's team Mohammad AhsanJonatan ChristieMarcus Fernaldi GideonAnthony Sinisuka GintingFirman Abdul KholikIhsan Maulana MustofaAngga PratamaRian Agung SaputroHendra SetiawanKevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo Chai BiaoHan ChengkaiHe JitingLu GuangzuQiao BinShi YuqiTan QiangWang ZekangZhao JunpengZhou Haodong Goh Sze FeiGoh V ShemNur IzzuddinLee Chong WeiLee Zii JiaOng Yew SinSoong Joo VenTan Wee KiongTeo Ee YiIskandar Zulkarnain Zainuddin Choi Sol-gyuChung Eui-seokHeo Kwang-heeJeon Hyeok-jinKang Min-hyukKim Duk-youngKim Won-hoLee Dong-keunSeo Seung-jaeSon Wan-hoWomen's team Yuki FukushimaSayaka HirotaMisaki MatsutomoAya OhoriNozomi OkuharaSayaka SatoAyaka TakahashiShiho TanakaAkane YamaguchiKoharu Yonemoto Cao TongweiChen XiaoxinChen YufeiDong WenjingDu YueFeng XueyingGao FangjieHe BingjiaoLi YinhuiZheng Yu Anggia Shitta AwandaFitrianiDella Destiara HarisRuselli HartawanNi Ketut Mahadewi IstaraniGreysia PoliiRizki Amelia PradiptaApriyani RahayuHanna RamadiniGregoria Mariska Tunjung An Se-youngBaek Ha-naChang Ye-naJeon Joo-iKim Hye-rinLee Jang-miLee So-heeLee Yu-rimShin Seung-chanSung Ji-hyun
References
External links E-Plus Badminton Asia Team Championships 2018