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The 2000 World Badminton Grand Prix was the XVIII edition of the World Badminton Grand Prix

World Badminton Grand Prix

The World Badminton Grand Prix was an annual badminton tournament organized by the International Badminton Federation to crown the best badminton player of the year. The tournament only invited the top eight players in the year-end world rankings. The tournament started in 1983, with the last...

finals. The tournament had originally been planned to take place in 2000, but was rescheduled for 2001. Finally, it was held in Bandar Seri Begawan

Bandar Seri Begawan

Bandar Seri Begawan, with an estimated population 140,000 , is the capital and largest city of the Sultanate of Brunei...

, Brunei

Brunei

Brunei , officially the State of Brunei Darussalam or the Nation of Brunei, the Abode of Peace , is a sovereign state located on the north coast of the island of Borneo, in Southeast Asia...

, from August 8 to August 12, 2001.

The prize money was USD

United States dollar

The United States dollar , also referred to as the American dollar, is the official currency of the United States of America. It is divided into 100 smaller units called cents or pennies....

250,000.

Final results

Category	Winners	Runners-up	Score
Men's singles	Xia Xuanze Xia Xuanze Xia Xuanze is a former male Chinese badminton player who played singles at the world level from the late 1990s through the first few years of the 21st century. Now he is a men's singles coach for the national team of China.-Player Attributes:...	Marleve Mainaky	7–4, 7–5, 2–7, 8–6
Women's singles	Zhou Mi Zhou Mi Zhou Mi is a Chinese female badminton player. During much of her career she represented the People's Republic of China, but since 2007 she has represented Hong Kong which has a sports program and teams independent from those of the mainland. In 2010 she received a 2 year ban, for failing a drugs...	Gong Zhichao Gong Zhichao Gong Zhichao is a female badminton player from the People's Republic of China.-Career:Gong was one of the world's leading women's singles players between her first international titles in 1996 and her retirement in 2002...	7–5, 5–7, 7–1, 7–0
Men's doubles	Candra Wijaya Candra Wijaya -Career:Wijaya is a doubles specialist who, as of 2008, has rated among the best men's doubles players in the world for over a decade. Noted for his ability in all phases of the doubles game, he has reached the final of the BWF World Championships three times with countryman Sigit Budiarto. They... & Tony Gunawan Tony Gunawan Tony Gunawan is an Indonesian born badminton player of Chinese descent.-Career:Gunawan is a former Olympic gold medalist and world champion for Indonesia, and now represents the United States. He is regarded by many, including his peers, as one of the greatest doubles players badminton's history...	Halim Heryanto & Sigit Budiarto Sigit Budiarto Sigit Budiarto is a male badminton player from Indonesia noted for his reflexes and deft handling of the racket. A men's doubles specialist, he won numerous international titles between 1995 and 2005, most of them in partnership with Candra Wijaya. He was a member of Indonesia's world champion...	7–5, 8–6, 7–2
Women's doubles	Huang Nanyan Huang Nanyan Huang Nanyan is a female badminton player from the People's Republic of China.-Career:A women's doubles specialist, Huang won a number of top tier titles in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The first of these came at the 1997 Asian Badminton Championships with Liu Zhong... & Yang Wei Yang Wei (badminton) Yang Wei is a female badminton player from the People's Republic of China. Yang grew up in Guangdong.-Career:A woman's doubles specialist, Yang has won some forty international titles, most of them in the sport's top tier events, since 1998...	Jiang Xuelian & Chen Lin Chen Lin (badminton) Chen Lin is a former female Chinese badminton player. She won the bronze medal at the 2001 Badminton World Championships in the women's doubles together with Jiang Xuelian.-Achievements:- References :*...	8–6, 7–3, 3–7, 7–3
Mixed doubles	Jens Eriksen Jens Eriksen Jens Dyrløv Eriksen is a male badminton player from Denmark.-2004 Olympics:He played badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's doubles and mixed doubles.... & Mette Schjoldager Mette Schjoldager Mette Schjoldager is a female badminton player from Denmark.-Career:Schjoldager competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in women's doubles with partner Pernille Harder...	Tri Kusharyanto & Minarti Timur Minarti Timur -Career:Though she won women's singles at the 1990 Dutch Open, Minarti was primarily a doubles player, particularly excelling in mixed doubles. During the 1990s and the early 2000s, she won numerous international mixed doubles titles; the majority with Tri Kusharjanto but also, later, with Bambang...	8–7, 7–4, 7–4

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