Talk:U.S. National Badminton Championships

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[edit] Wrong?

There's something wrong here. The winners of the U.S. Open Badminton Championships and the U.S. National Badminton Championships are the same since 1937 until 1998.. Does anybody know which is the correct list and which one is wrong? MontanNito 17:26, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Maybe it's similar to Canadian Open (badminton) and Canadian National Badminton Championships. Walint (talk) 18:40, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

It's all very complicated. Both lists are faulty, especially the Open champion list. Here's the story: Until 1954 there was no Open, all U.S. championships were closed (open only to U.S. residents). Starting in '54 all U.S. championships were open through 1969. From 1970 to 1972 we had both a closed and an open tourney played back to back. In '73 we had only an open. In '74 and '75 we had only a closed tourney. In 1976 we had both again! Then from 1977 through 1982 we had only a closed nationals. In 1983 we began to have both an open and a closed again but several months apart rather than back to back; the Open usually in autumn and the closed usually in the spring of the following year. Now you can probably see the difficulty in producing an accurate list for both events. Unfortunately I began to lose track of the winners of each event sometime during the '80's. Badmintonhist (talk) 08:06, 19 January 2008 (UTC)