2018–19 Premier Badminton League

2018–19 Premier Badminton League
Tournament details
Dates	Dec 2018 – Jan 2019
Edition	4
Location	India
Official website	www.pbl-india.com
Results
Champions	Bengaluru Raptors
Runners Up	Mumbai Rockets
Semi Finalists	Hyderabad Hunters, Awadhe Warriors
← 2017-18	2020 →

2018–19 Premier Badminton League (also known as Vodafone PBL for sponsorship reasons) was the fourth edition of Premier Badminton League. It was played from 22 December 2018 to 13 January 2019.^[1] The season featured a new team – Pune 7 Aces^[2] – bringing the total to nine competing teams. Also, the Bengaluru team previously known as Bengaluru Blasters featured as Bengaluru Raptors.

Bengaluru Raptors beat Mumbai Rockets by 4 - 3 in the final tie to lift their maiden title.^[3]

Squads[edit | edit source]


Ahmedabad Smash Masters	Awadhe Warriors	Bengaluru Raptors
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Viktor Axelsen	Son Wan-ho	Srikanth Kidambi
Anoushka Parikh	Ashwini Ponnappa	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Mohammad Ahsan
N. Sikki Reddy	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Mathias Christiansen	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Hendra Setiawan
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy	Chinese Taipei Lee Yang	B. Sai Praneeth
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Lee Chun Hei	Zhang Beiwen	Mithun Manjunath
K. Nandagopal	Lee Dong-keun	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Lauren Smith
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Kirsty Gilmour	Sanyogita Ghorpade	Sanjana Santosh
Vaishnavi Bhale	Gurusai Dutt	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Marcus Ellis
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Liew Daren	Rasika Raje	Vũ Thị Trang
Sourabh Varma	Arjun M.R.	Nguyễn Tiến Minh

Chennai Smashers	Delhi Dashers	Hyderabad Hunters
Sung Ji-hyun	H. S. Prannoy	P. V. Sindhu
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Gabby Adcock	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Chai Biao	Eom Hye-won
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Chris Adcock	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Wang Sijie	Kim Sa-rang
Rutaparna Panda	Maneepong Jongjit	Bodin Isara
Sumeeth Reddy	Evgeniya Kosetskaya	Sai Uttejita Rao Chukka
Saili Rane	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Tommy Sugiarto	Lee Hyun-il
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Rajiv Ouseph	Harika Veludurthi	Arun George
Parupalli Kashyap	Vighnesh Devlekar	Meghana Jakkampudi
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Or Chin Chung	Chirag Sen	Mark Caljouw
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Chong Wei Feng	Chinese Taipei Lee Chia-hsin	Rahul Yadav Chittaboina

Mumbai Rockets	North Eastern Warriors	Pune 7 Aces
Lee Yong-dae	Saina Nehwal	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Carolina Marín
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Pia Zebadiah Bernadeth	Kim Ha-na	Chirag Shetty
Kim Gi-jung	Yoo Yeon-seong	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Mathias Boe
Shreyanshi Pardeshi	Tanongsak Saensomboonsuk	Vladimir Ivanov
Sameer Verma	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Tian Houwei	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Line Kjærsfeldt
Kuhoo Garg	K. Maneesha	Lakshya Sen
Manu Attri	Chinese Taipei Liao Min-chun	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Brice Leverdez
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Anders Antonsen	Dhruv Kapila	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Sony Dwi Kuncoro
Pratul Joshi	Siril Verma	Ajay Jayaram
Anura Prabhudesai	Rituparna Das	Prajakta Sawant

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Points Table[edit | edit source]

Team	MP	RMW	RML	TMW	TML	Pts.
Awadhe Warriors	30	13	11	6	0	25
Hyderabad Hunters	30	15	9	5	1	24
Bengaluru Raptors	30	12	12	5	1	21
Mumbai Rockets	30	13	11	4	2	19

Pune 7 Aces	30	8	16	5	1	17
Chennai Smashers	30	12	12	3	3	15
Ahmedabad Smash Masters	30	7	17	4	2	13
North Eastern Warriors	30	11	13	2	4	11
Delhi Dashers	30	9	15	1	5	6

Qualified for knockouts
Five matches (MP) constitute one tie
Each team will play six ties
1 point for each Regular Match Won (RMW)
0 points for Regular Matches Lost (RML)
2 points for each Trump Match Won (TMW)
-1 point for each Trump Match Lost (TML)^[5]

Source: Official PBL website

Fixtures[edit | edit source]

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League Stage[edit | edit source]


Date	Time	Venue	Team 1	Result	Team 2
22 Dec	19:00	Mumbai	Pune 7 Aces	(-1) – 6	Hyderabad Hunters
23 Dec	16:00		Mumbai Rockets	5 – 0	Delhi Dashers
23 Dec	19:00		Ahmedabad Smash Masters	4 – 1	North Eastern Warriors
24 Dec	19:00		Pune 7 Aces	3 – 4	Awadhe Warriors
25 Dec	19:00	Hyderabad	Hyderabad Hunters	5 – 0	Chennai Smashers
26 Dec	19:00		Delhi Dashers	1 – 4	Ahmedabad Smash Masters
27 Dec	19:00		North Eastern Warriors	4 – 1	Mumbai Rockets
28 Dec	16:00		Ahmedabad Smash Masters	4 – 3	Bengaluru Raptors
28 Dec	19:00		Hyderabad Hunters	1 – 4	Awadhe Warriors
29 Dec	16:00	Pune	Pune 7 Aces	4 – 3	Mumbai Rockets
29 Dec	19:00		North Eastern Warriors	3 – 0	Delhi Dashers
30 Dec	16:00		Ahmedabad Smash Masters	(-1) – 6	Chennai Smashers
30 Dec	19:00		Pune 7 Aces	3 – 4	Bengaluru Raptors
31 Dec	19:00		Awadhe Warriors	2 – 5	Mumbai Rockets
1 Jan	19:00		Hyderabad Hunters	5 – 0	North Eastern Warriors
2 Jan	19:00	Ahmedabad	Delhi Dashers	1 – 2	Bengaluru Raptors
3 Jan	19:00		Pune 7 Aces	3 – 4	Chennai Smashers
4 Jan	19:00		Ahmedabad Smash Masters	(-1) – 6	Awadhe Warriors
5 Jan	16:00		Mumbai Rockets	5 – 0	Chennai Smashers
5 Jan	19:00		Bengaluru Raptors	4 – 3	North Eastern Warriors
6 Jan	16:00		Delhi Dashers	0 – 5	Pune 7 Aces
6 Jan	19:00		Ahmedabad Smash Masters	3 – 4	Hyderabad Hunters
7 Jan	19:00	Bangalore	Awadhe Warriors	4 – 3	Chennai Smashers
8 Jan	19:00		Bengaluru Raptors	5 – 0	Mumbai Rockets
9 Jan	16:00		Hyderabad Hunters	3 – 4	Delhi Dashers
9 Jan	19:00		Awadhe Warriors	5 – 0	North Eastern Warriors
10 Jan	19:00		Bengaluru Raptors	3 – 2	Chennai Smashers

Knockout Stage[edit | edit source]

Date	Time	Venue	Team 1	Result	Team 2
Semi Finals
11 Jan	19:00	Bangalore	Awadhe Warriors	2 – 4	Bengaluru Raptors
12 Jan	19:00	Bangalore	Hyderabad Hunters	2 – 4	Mumbai Rockets
Finals
13 Jan	19:00	Bangalore	Bengaluru Raptors	4 – 3	Mumbai Rockets

Semifinal 1
Awadhe Warriors	M. Christiansen, A. Ponnappa (Trump Match)	15 – 7, 15 – 10 ^{(Mixed Doubles)}	M. Ellis, L. Smith	Bengaluru Raptors
	L. D. Keun	9 – 15, 4 – 15 ^{(Men's Singles)}	B. S. Praneeth
	S. W. Ho	7 – 15, 10 – 15 ^{(Men's Singles)}	K. Srikanth
	Y. Lee, M. Christiansen	14 – 15, 9 – 15 ^{(Men's Doubles)}	M. Ahsan, H. Setiawan (Trump Match)
	B. Zhang	– ^{(Women's Singles)}	T. T. Vu

Semifinal 2
Hyderabad Hunters	B. Isara, K. S. Rang	14 – 15, 12 – 15 ^{(Men's Doubles)}	K. G. Jung, L. Y. Dae	Mumbai Rockets
	M. Caljouw	8 – 15, 7 – 15 ^{(Men's Singles)}	S. Verma (Trump Match)
	P. V. Sindhu (Trump Match)	15 – 6, 15 – 5 ^{(Women's Singles)}	S. Pardeshi
	L. Hyun	13 – 15, 6 – 15 ^{(Men's Singles)}	A. Antonsen
	K. S. Rang, E. H. Won	– ^{(Mixed Doubles)}	K. G. Jung, P. Z. Bernadeth

Final
Bengaluru Raptors	M. Ellis, L. Smith	8 – 15, 14 – 15 ^{(Mixed Doubles)}	K. G. Jung, P. Z. Bernadeth (Trump Match)	Mumbai Rockets
	K. Srikanth	15 – 7, 15 – 10 ^{(Men's Singles)}	A. Antonsen
	T. T. Vu (Trump Match)	15 – 8, 15 – 9 ^{(Women's Singles)}	S. Pardeshi
	B. S. Praneeth	15 – 7, 12 – 15, 3 – 15 ^{(Men's Singles)}	S. Verma
	M. Ahsan, H. Setiawan	15 – 13, 15 – 10 ^{(Men's Doubles)}	K. G. Jung, L. Y. Dae

References[edit | edit source]

↑ "PBL Season 4 to have nine franchises, with Pune joins the league". gobadminton.in. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
↑ "Taapsee on Owning a PBL Team & Why Badminton is Important to India". thequint.com. 10 October 2018. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
↑ "Bengaluru Raptors clinch PBL 4 title with a thrilling 4-3 win over Mumbai Rockets". Scroll.in. Retrieved 13 January 2019.
↑ "Premier Badminton League squads after the 2018-19 players' auction". 8 October 2018. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
↑ "Rules and Regulations". PBL. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
↑ "Premier Badminton League". Retrieved 3 December 2018.

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[1] "PBL Season 4 to have nine franchises, with Pune joins the league". gobadminton.in. Retrieved 15 November 2018.

[2] "Taapsee on Owning a PBL Team & Why Badminton is Important to India". thequint.com. 10 October 2018. Retrieved 15 November 2018.

[3] "Bengaluru Raptors clinch PBL 4 title with a thrilling 4-3 win over Mumbai Rockets". Scroll.in. Retrieved 13 January 2019.

[4] "Premier Badminton League squads after the 2018-19 players' auction". 8 October 2018. Retrieved 15 November 2018.

[5] "Rules and Regulations". PBL. Retrieved 23 December 2018.

[6] "Premier Badminton League". Retrieved 3 December 2018.

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v t e Premier Badminton League
Seasons	2016 2017 2017–18 2018–19 2020
Participating teams	Awadhe Warriors Bengaluru Raptors Chennai Superstarz Hyderabad Hunters Mumbai Rockets Northeastern Warriors Pune 7 Aces
Defunct teams	Ahmedabad Smash Masters Delhi Dashers
Venues	Ahmedabad Bangalore Bangalore Chennai Delhi Guwahati Hyderabad Lucknow Mumbai Pune