BWF World Tour Finals 2025: All you need to know about prize money & points on offer

The prize pool of the BWF World Tour Finals 2025 is highest for any tournament on the BWF calendar.

Another memorable year of high-class badminton is set to come to an end, with the BWF World Tour Finals 2025 set to be held from 17th December to 21st December at the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Centre Gymnasium in Hangzhou, China.

The format here is different from those on the calendar during the rest of the year. Only eight participants are involved in each category- the top eight from a table based on results from the entire year. They are divided into two groups of four each, with the top two qualifying for the semifinals.

This is a good opportunity for the likes of An Se Young (Women’s Singles) and Seo Seung Jae/ Kim Won Ho (Men’s Doubles), who have ten and nine titles respectively this year, to finish a dream season on a high.

It would take a strong effort to stop the Korean juggernaut. The field is set to be much more competitive in the other three categories.

The year 2025 didn’t really have much to remember for Indian shuttlers. This can be gauged from the fact that they have just a single representation in this tournament- the ace doubles duo of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty.

Drawn into group B, they would have to be at their best to get past the other contenders from the group- Aaron Chia/ Soh Wooi Yik, Liang Wei Keng/ Wang Chang and Fajar Alfian/ Muhammad Shohibul Fikri.

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PV Sindhu is the only Indian to have emerged victorious in this competition- way back in 2018. The third seeds would be looking to end that drought here.

BWF World Tour Finals 2025: Points on offer

The winner will receive 14,000 points, while the runner-up will receive 12,000 points.

Players qualifying for the semi-finals will receive 10,000 points. A third-place finish in the group stage assures a player/pair of 8,900 points, while a wooden spoon in any of the categories will mean 7,800 points.

BWF World Tour Finals 2025: Prize pool

According to BWF rules, the total prize pool for the BWF World Tour Finals 2025 is USD 3,000,000- the highest for any tournament on the BWF calendar.

The winners in both singles categories will receive USD 240,000, while their counterparts in the doubles event will get USD 252,000.

The runners-up in the singles events in all five categories will take home USD 120,000. Meanwhile, the losing semi-finalists will obtain USD 60,000.

Every participant receives a portion of the prize fund. Those who finished at third place in the group stages, in the singles section will receive USD 33,000, while USD 39,000 is reserved for those in doubles.

USD 18,000 and USD 21,000 will be given to the bottom placed participants in the singles and doubles events respectively.

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