“Sands China Ltd. Macau Open Badminton 2024 Tournament Crowns Winners
Co-organised by Sands China Ltd. and the Badminton Federation of Macau
（Macao, Sept. 29, 2024）–The Sands China Ltd. Macau Open Badminton 2024 tournament was a resounding success, presenting six spectacular days of matches for sports enthusiasts and crowning winners in five events: Men’s Singles, Women’s Singles, Men’s Doubles, Women’s Doubles and Mixed Doubles.
Co-organised by Sands China Ltd. and the Badminton Federation of Macau (BFM), the tournament was held at the Macao East Asian Games Dome Sept. 24-29, with the support of the Sports Bureau of the Macao SAR Government. The Macau Open Badminton Championships is an event of the HSBC BWF World Tour Super 300, and has been held as an annual competition since 2006.
A total of 375 athletes from a record-breaking 30 nations and regions around the world applied to play in the tournament, with 259 qualifying. The semi-finals and finals were live-streamed on the Badminton World Federation’s YouTube channel, allowing badminton enthusiasts worldwide to witness the superb skills on display in Macao.
The Macau Open was the first world-class badminton tournament held in Macao since the 2024 Paris Olympics, and awarded US$210,000 (approximately MOP 1.68 million) in prize money.
With Sands China’s full support and collaboration, this high-profile sports event was held in alignment with the Macao government’s strategy on diversification and organising international mega events. The company hopes the tournament contributes to international goodwill, promotes Macao’s reputation as a ‘City of Sports,’ and strengthens Macao’s image as a world centre of tourism and leisure.
The tournament’s strong line-up featured China’s Zhang Shuxian, ranked world no. 5 in women’s doubles; Wang Chi-lin, two-time men’s doubles gold-medal Olympian from Taipei; men’s singles top-seeded Lee Cheuk Yiu and second seed Angus Ng Ka Long from Hong Kong; Hong Kong mixed doubles players Tang Chun Man and Tse Ying Suet; young Thai star Ratchanok Intanon; and girls’ singles world junior champion Tomoka Miyazaki from Japan. The tournament also featured five players from Macao: Pui Pang Fong, Pui Chi Wa, Leong Kok Chong, Vong Kok Weng, and Ng Weng Chi.
Sands China used the opportunity presented by the tournament to give back to the local community with the Sands Cares Presents: Learn from Badminton Elites event Saturday, in cooperation with the Badminton Federation of Macau. Wang Chi-lin and Angus Ng each shared their competition experiences and the struggles they faced as athletes with 40 students from Escola dos Moradores de Macau and Our Lady of Fatima Girls’ School, as well as members of Sands China’s badminton team, encouraging them to maintain resilience, work hard, and continuously strive for self-improvement in the pursuit of their dreams and goals. They also enjoyed an opportunity to closely interact, play with and get inspired by these renowned players.
Moreover, to provide the wider public with the chance to witness world-class badminton events up close, Sands China invited members of the sports faculties and badminton teams of several local tertiary educational institutions in Macao, along with members of the Macau Special Olympics, to enjoy the thrilling matches in person. The initiative aimed to inspire local residents to actively engage in sports and support Macao’s transformation into a “City of Sports.”
As an integrated tourism and leisure enterprise rooted in Macao for more than 20 years, Sands China’s support of the Macau Open badminton tournament is part of the company’s corporate social responsibility efforts and its support of ‘tourism + sport.’ Sands China has sponsored and organised various sporting events over the years and has invited international sports stars to attend tennis and basketball invitationals and training camps, Golf Day and other events, encouraging the public to participate in sports while attracting tourists and athletes from overseas to visit Macao and experience its charm.
| Champion | Event |
| Ng Ka Long, Angus (Hong Kong, China) | Men’s Singles |
| Gao Fang Jie (China) | Women’s Singles |
| Chen Xu Jun / Liu Yi (China) | Men’s Doubles |
| Li Wen Mei / Zhang Shu Xian（China） | Women’s Doubles |
| Guo Xin Wa / Chen Fang Hui（China） | Mixed Doubles |
Photo caption：Jeff BellLeft to right: Nick Teo, general manager of Felet International Holdings; Zhang Jun, president of the Chinese Badminton Association and chair of the events committee of the Badminton World Federation; Dr. Wilfred Wong, executive vice chairman of Sands China Ltd.; Wang Huijie, director of the Department of Publicity and Culture of the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in the Macao SAR; Khunying Patama Leeswadtrakul, member of the International Olympic Committee and deputy president of the Badminton World Federation; Andrew Vong, acting head of the Macau Grand Prix and Major Sporting Events Department of the Sports Bureau of Macao SAR Government; Kong Tat Choi, president of the Badminton Federation of Macau; Dave Sun, executive vice president and chief financial officer of Sands China Ltd. and managing director of Venetian Macau Limited; Jeff Bell, Sands China Ltd. Macau Open Badminton 2024 referee
Photo caption：Photo caption: Chinese Taipei men’s doubles team Wang Chi-lin and Chiu Hsiang-chieh (top left), men’s singles top-seeded Lee Cheuk Yiu from Hong Kong (top right), girls’ singles world junior champion Tomoka Miyazaki from Japan (bottom left), and Macao player Pui Pang Fong (bottom right) compete in the Sands China Ltd. Macau Open Badminton 2024 tournament at the Macao East Asian Games Dome Sept. 24-29.
Photo caption：Wang Chi-lin and Angus Ng share their competition experiences and the struggles they faced as athletes with 40 students from Escola dos Moradores de Macau and Our Lady of Fatima Girls’ School, as well as members of Sands China’s badminton team at the Macao East Asian Games Dome Saturday, for the ‘Sands Cares Presents: Learn from Badminton Elites’ event co-organised by Sands China and the Badminton Federation of Macau. The participants also enjoyed an opportunity to closely interact, play with and get inspired by these renowned players.
From centre, left to right: Maria Carvalho (in green jacket), chairwoman of the Badminton Federation of Macau; Wang Chi-lin; Angus Ng; and Sean Shen, assistant vice president of sports event development and management for Sands China Ltd.
Photo caption：Wang Chi-lin and Angus Ng share their competition experiences and the struggles they faced as athletes with 40 students from Escola dos Moradores de Macau and Our Lady of Fatima Girls’ School, as well as members of Sands China’s badminton team at the Macao East Asian Games Dome Saturday, for the ‘Sands Cares Presents: Learn from Badminton Elites’ event co-organised by Sands China and the Badminton Federation of Macau. The participants also enjoyed an opportunity to closely interact, play with and get inspired by these renowned players.
Photo caption：Dr. Wilfred Wong, executive vice chairman of Sands China Ltd., presents a medal to Chen Xu Jun and Liu Yi, champion of the Men’s Doubles category of the Sands China Ltd. Macau Open Badminton 2024 tournament Sunday at the Macao East Asian Games Dome.
