Recently, the Chinese badminton team announced that it will withdraw from the next three INTERNATIONAL Badminton Federation Open tournaments, namely the Indonesian Masters that began on November 16, the Indonesian Open that began on November 23, and the year-end finals that began on December 1. Although this year's events are too intensive, it is also to reserve physical strength for the World Championships at the end of the year, but this once again reflects the embarrassing position of the year-end finals.
The event was essentially created by the BWF following the at-club's model of the ATP year-end finals, but the BWF failed to recognize the problem that badminton was a false "professional" sport. From the perspective of prize money, the total prize money for badminton is 1.5 million US dollars, the championship prize is only about 70,000 US dollars, and the prize money for the tennis finals champion is more than 3 million US dollars.
Therefore, nowadays, several badminton powers, China, Indonesia, Denmark, Japan and other countries, their players in various competitions, even if they win the championship, it is not enough to pay for training, medical expenses, their source of income is more domestic bonuses and endorsement costs at all levels, badminton top players, really take the professional road, that is, rely on bonuses to feed the team and their own, only Spanish player Marin.
Therefore, such a game as the year-end finals cannot really attract the top players to participate, and the top athletes are more inclined to the honor of "world champion" than this insignificant bonus, which is also the dilemma of badminton promotion today.
In order to improve this situation, the badminton finals themselves have also changed many times, entering a new era since 2008, and changing to the BWF Tour Finals in 2018, and then taking stock of the previous champions of the finals since 2008.
Li Zongwei: 2008-2010, 2013
Li Zongwei is the king of the open tournament, once created a record of ten crowns in a single season, he is also the player with the most championships in the history of the year-end finals, a total of 4 times to win the championship, but Li Zongwei such a player, the entire career did not have a world championship title, is also a lament.
Anseron: 2016, 2017, 2020
Anseron has won the finals three times after entering the peak period, and according to his current state, this year's year-end finals have a great chance, and it remains to be seen whether he can equal Li Zongwei.
Chen Long: 2012, 2014
In fact, many people do not understand, Chen Long is also called Li Zongwei's killer, in addition to the World Championships Olympic Finals three consecutive kills Li Zongwei, in the 2014 finals, he beat Li Zongwei to reach the top of the world rankings. In the finals of the following years, Chen Long withdrew from the game due to injury many times and failed to continue his glory.
Kento Momota: 2015, 2019
Momota Kendou's dominance in the international badminton scene in 2018 and 2019 is terrifying, especially in 2019, with 11 championships in a single season, breaking Li Zongwei's record of 10 crowns, and the first men's singles player to break through 110,000 points.
Shi Yuqi: 2018
That year's Shi Yuqi was to let people see the future hope of the national feather men's singles, he defeated the invincible Momota Kendou in the finals and won the finals. I also hope that he can get out of the haze and injuries as soon as possible and return to the peak.
Lin Dan: 2011
I would like to say, "If Lin Dan has not won the most times in an event since 1983, then this event is certainly not important." Although Lin Dan has only won the finals once in his career, he has only participated in this finals in his career. After all, it takes the top eight of the total points of the open tournament to participate, and Lin Dan, a player who does not want to play anything except the World Series, is naturally difficult to qualify for, and even if he can play, there are various reasons to quit. The badminton goat is still not enthusiastic about this event, and the embarrassing situation of the finals is natural.