YONEX US Open 2024 moves to the cowboy city of Fort Worth in Texas.

Get to know the possibilities the 70-year-old event could bring this year.

• Lin Chun-Yi (2019) and Beiwen Zhang (2014) are the only former winners competing.
• Repeat glory will see Lin become the first singles shuttler from Chinese Taipei to triumph more than once.
• A Beiwen win will send her into the record books as only the third American women’s singles player after the legendary Judy Hashman and Lili Zhou to be champion twice.
• If second seed Busanan Ongbamrungphan keeps the title Supanida Katethong won last year, it will mark Thailand’s first back-to-back victories in an event.
• Vinson Chiu/Jennie Gai are the maiden local stars to be seeded top in mixed doubles in 15 years. Halim Haryanto/Peng Yun in 2009 were the most recent.
• It was also the last time they won the discipline, via Howard Bach/Eva Lee.
• Chiu, also seeded in men’s doubles (fifth with Joshua Yuan), has the chance of becoming the first player since Indonesian Vita Marissa in 2014 to bag two titles.
• Scotland have only succeeded in doubles. Kirsty Gilmour, third seed in women’s singles, could change that.
• India, on the other hand, have no crowns outside the singles. Second seeds Treesa Jolly/Gayatri Pullela Gopichand are among favourites to win women’s doubles.
• Although they possess top seeds Ben Lane/Sean Vendy, men’s doubles is a category England have not aced following Graham Hurrell/James Anderson’s success in 2000.

Standout Stat: The last five editions have witnessed men’s doubles winners from different countries.