The wait is finally over and the DANISA Denmark Open 2020 will mark the return of the HSBC BWF World Tour today following a seven-month COVID-19 enforced pause. Here are some fascinating facts about the Super 750 tournament.

• Denmark is the most successful nation with 136 total titles across the five disciplines.
• The host nation, however, has not completed a clean sweep since 1955. China were the last to do so in 2014.
• The legendary Tonny Ahm is the competition’s most decorated player with 19 titles.
• Malaya’s Ong Hock Sim was the first non-European player to be champion. He took the men’s singles and men’s doubles (with Englishman F.M. Creen) crowns at the third edition in 1937.
• Record for most consecutive title wins belongs to Denmark’s men’s singles icon Morten Frost, who triumphed seven times from 1980-1986.
• Chinese ace Chen Long is the only athlete to complete a hattrick this century (2013-2015).
• Fourth seeds Mark Lamsfuss/Isabel Herttrich have the chance to end Germany’s 49-year wait for success in mixed doubles. Wolfgang Bochow/Marieluise Wackerow were the last Germans to taste success in 1971.
• Denmark are going through a mini-drought, with their last title coming in 2016 via mixed doubles duo Joachim Fischer Nielsen/Christinna Pedersen.
• Women’s singles sixth seed Beiwen Zhang can become only the second American since David Freeman in 1948 to stand atop the podium.
• Tine Rasmussen remains the last local women’s singles champion (2009), while no men’s singles shuttler has won the title since Jan O Jorgensen in 2010.
• Jorgensen (2010), Kidambi Srikanth (2017) and Yuki Fukushima/Sayaka Hirota (2018) are the only former winners competing at this edition.
• If they attain glory, Fukushima/Hirota will be the first female Japanese shuttlers since Atsuko Tokuda in 1987 to be champions more than once.
• Women’s singles third seed Carolina Marin has not made it past the semifinal stage in her five appearances at the tournament.
• Marcus Ellis/Lauren Smith are the highest seeded (No.2) English players. Another mixed pair, Anthony Clark/Donna Kellogg, are the last (2006) from their country to be victorious in Denmark.

Standout Stat: With no Indonesian, Chinese, Malaysian and Korean participation, the men’s doubles will see winners from another nation for the first time in 10 years.