The Estonian International in badminton

Badminton

Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players or two opposing pairs , who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net. Players score points by striking a shuttlecock with their racquet so that it passes over the net and lands in their...

 is an international open held in Estonia

Estonia

Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by Lake Peipsi and the Russian Federation . Across the Baltic Sea lies...

 since 2004 and is thereby one of the most recent international badminton tournaments in the world.

The tournament is classified as BWF level 4 Future Series and do not belong to the EBU Circuit. As many other international championships in badminton, that usually carry the name of the main sponsor, it is designed as Estonia Kalev International.

Previous winners

Year	Men's singles	Women's singles	Men's doubles	Women's doubles	Mixed doubles
2004	Yuichi Ikeda	Kati Tolmoff Kati Tolmoff Kati Tolmoff is a retired female badminton player from Estonia.She played at the 2005 World Badminton Championships in Anaheim and reached the second round ....	Theodoros Vekos    George Patis George Patis George Patis is a male badminton player from Greece.Patis competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's doubles with partner Theodoros Velkos. They were defeated in the round of 32 by Chan Chong Ming and Chew Choon Eng of Malaysia.-References:***...	Kati Tolmoff Kati Tolmoff Kati Tolmoff is a retired female badminton player from Estonia.She played at the 2005 World Badminton Championships in Anaheim and reached the second round ....     Solenn Pasturel	Ilkka Nyqvist    Leena Löytömäki
2005	Jean-Michel Lefort		Benoit Azzopard    Baptiste Careme	Piret Hamer    Helen Reino Helen Reino Helen Reino is a badminton player from Estonia.She played at the 2005 World Badminton Championships in Anaheim and lost in the first round to Mia Audina of the Netherlands.-References:**...	Jean-Michel Lefort    Akvile Stapusaityte Akvile Stapušaityte Akvilė Stapušaitytė is a Lithuanian badminton player. She was born in Tauragė, Lithuanian SSR.Akvilė won the Lithuanian National Badminton Championships in 2006, 2007 and 2008. She attended the 2008 Summer Olympics and lost to Tine Rasmussen in the second round.-References:...
2006	Kęstutis Navickas Kestutis Navickas Kęstutis Navickas is a male badminton player from Lithuania.Kestutis Navickas played in the German club TV Refrath from 2005-2006 after that he change to the team of Gifhon...		Andrej Ashmarin    Anton Nazarenko	Claudia Vogelgsang    Caren Hückstädt	Adam Cwalina    Malgorzata Kurdelska
2007	Kristian Nielsen		Tuomas Nuorteva    Mikko Vikman	Lucia Tavera    Sandra Chirlaque	Anton Nazarenko    Evgenia Antipova Evgenia Antipova Evgenia Petrovna Antipova was a Russian and Soviet painter, watercolorist, graphic artist, and Art teacher. She lived and worked in Leningrad - Saint Petersburg and is regarded as one of the brightest representatives of the Leningrad school of painting....
2008	No competition
2009	Ville Lång Ville Lång Ville Lång is a male badminton player from Finland. He won Finland's championship in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008. In 2003 he won bronze in European Junior Badminton Championships.-References:***...	Tatjana Bibik	Naoki Kawamae    Shoji Sato Shoji Sato is a male badminton player from Japan.Shoji Sato is regarded as one of the fastest on foot players in the world. -Career:He won four Japanese National Championships in a row between 2003 and 2006....	Cai Jiani    Rong Bo	Zhang Yi    Cai Jiani
2010	Cancelled

External links

• BWF: 2006 results