2008 BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix
Category Winners Runners-up Score
Men 's singles Nguyen Tien Minh Chan Yan Kit 24-22 , 21-18
Women 's singles Zhang Beiwen Xing Aiying 11-21 , 21-19 , 22-20
Men 's doubles Choong Tan Fook / Lee Wan Wah Fran Kurniawan / Wijaya Rendra 21-14 , 21-10
Women 's doubles Shinta Mulia Sari / Yao Lei Shendy Puspa Irawati / Meiliana Jauhari 16-21 , 21-19 , 21-11
Mixed doubles Tontowi Ahmad / Shendy Puspa Irawati Riky Widianto / Vanessa Neo Yu Yan 21-17 , 21-9
Grand Prix
German Open February 26–March 2 , RWE Rhein-Ruhr Sporthalle , Mülheim , Germany . [ 6 ] Category Winners Runners-up Score Men 's singles Lee Hyun-il Sho Sasaki 22–20 , 21–5 Women 's singles Jun Jae-youn Wang Yihan 25–23 , 21–10 Men 's doubles Lee Jae-jin / Hwang Ji-man Jung Jae-sung / Lee Yong-dae 21–13 , 21–19 Women 's doubles Lee Kyung-won / Lee Hyo-jung Miyuki Maeda / Satoko Suetsuna 21–17 , 21–16 Mixed doubles Lee Yong-dae / Lee Hyo-jung He Hanbin / Yu Yang 9–21 , 27–25 , 21–18 U.S. Open July 8–13 , Orange County Badminton Club , Orange , California , United States . [ 7 ] Category Winners Runners-up Score Men 's singles Andrew Dabeka Martin Bille Larsen 21–14 , 21–9 Women 's singles Lili Zhou Chloe Magee 23–21 , 21–16 Men 's doubles Howard Bach / Khan Malaythong Halim Heryanto / Raju Rai 21–14 , 21–19 Women 's doubles Chang Li-ying / Hung Shih-chieh Tsai Pei-ling / Yang Chia-chen 21–19 , 21–14 Mixed doubles Halim Heryanto / Peng Yun Mike Beres / Valerie Loker 21–13 , 21–16 Bitburger Open September 30–October 5 , Saarlandhalle , Saarbrücken , Germany . [ 8 ] Category Winners Runners-up Score Men 's singles Chetan Anand Arvind Bhat 23–25 , 24–22 , 23–21 Women 's singles Maria Febe Kusumastuti Aditi Mutatkar 22–24 , 21–8 , 23–21 Men 's doubles Mathias Boe / Carsten Mogensen Kristof Hopp / Johannes Schöttler 21–11 , 21–15 Women 's doubles Helle Nielsen / Marie Roepke Shendy Puspa Irawati / Meiliana Jauhari 21–15 , 21–18 Mixed doubles Diju Valiyaveetil / Jwala Gutta Joachim Fischer Nielsen / Christinna Pedersen 8–21 , 21–17 , 22–20 Bulgaria Open October 7–12 , Sofia Hall , Sofia , Bulgaria . [ 9 ] Category Winners Runners-up Score Men 's singles Joachim Persson Hsieh Yu-hsing 17–21 , 21–19 , 21–19 Women 's singles Petya Nedelcheva Rosaria Yusfin Pungkasari 21–14 , 21–12 Men 's doubles Mathias Boe / Carsten Mogensen Fran Kurniawan / Wijaya Rendra 25–23 , 21–16 Women 's doubles Jwala Gutta / Shruti Kurian Shendy Puspa Irawati / Meiliana Jauhari 21–11 , 21–19 Mixed doubles Diju V. / Jwala Gutta Fran Kurniawan / Shendy Puspa Irawati 15–21 , 21–18 , 21–19 Dutch Open October 14–19 , Topsportcentrum , Almere , Netherlands . [ 10 ] Category Winners Runners-up Score Men 's singles Andre Kurniawan Tedjono Chetan Anand 21–15 , 11–21 , 21–19 Women 's singles Yao Jie Linda Zechiri 21–14 , 21–13 Men 's doubles Fran Kurniawan / Rendra Wijaya Rupesh Kumar / Sanave Thomas 21–18 , 21–18 Women 's doubles Lena Frier Kristiansen / Kamilla Rytter Juhl Shendy Puspa Irawati / Meiliana Jauhari 21–16 , 25–23 Mixed doubles Joachim Fischer Nielsen / Christinna Pedersen Fran Kurniawan / Shendy Puspa Irawati 21–17 , 21–9 Russian Open November 4–9 , Druzhba Multipurpose Arena , Moscow , Russia . [ 11 ] Category Winners Runners-up Score Men 's singles Dicky Palyama Stanislav Pukhov 21–12 , 21–18 Women 's singles Ella Diehl Larisa Griga 21–10 , 17–21 , 21–12 Men 's doubles Vitalij Durkin / Alexandr Nikolaenko Vladimir Ivanov / Ivan Sozonov 21–11 , 21–15 Women 's doubles Valeria Sorokina / Nina Vislova Petya Nedelcheva / Dimitria Popstoykova 21–18 , 21–8 Mixed doubles Aleksandr Nikolaenko / Valeria Sorokina Vitalij Durkin / Nina Vislova 21–19 , 21–19 New Zealand Open November 11–16 , North Shore Events Centre , Auckland , New Zealand . [ 12 ] Category Winners Runners-up Score Men 's singles Lee Tsuen Seng Sairul Amar Ayob 24–22 , 21–17 Women 's singles Zhou Mi Rachel Hindley 21–10 , 21–15 Men 's doubles Chen Hung-ling / Lin Yu-Lang Fernando Kurniawan / Lingga Lie 22–20 , 21–10 Women 's doubles Chien Yu-chin / Chou Chia-Chi Haw Chiou Hwee / Lim Pek Siah 21–8 , 21–15 Mixed doubles Chen Hung-ling / Chou Chia-Chi Hsieh Yu-hsing / Chien Yu-chin 21–18 , 22–20 Vietnam Open December 2–7 , Phan Dinh Phung Stadium , Ho Chi Minh City , Vietnam
The 2008 BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix is the second season of BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix with fourteen tournaments in contested. The season started with German Open in February and ended with Vietnam Open in December.