The 2018 Thomas & Uber Cup (officially known as the 2018 BWF Thomas & Uber Cup) was the 30th edition of the
Thomas Cup and the 27th edition of the
Uber Cup, the biennial international
badminton championship contested by the men and women's national teams of the member associations of
Badminton World Federation (BWF). The tournament was hosted by
Bangkok,
Thailand 20–27 May 2018.[1]
The matches were played at
IMPACT Arena. It was the second time that Thailand hosted the Thomas Cup and the first time hosted the Uber Cup tournament and the first time this event was held in Southeast Asia since
2010 in Malaysia.
Denmark were the defending men's champions, and
China were the defending women's champions.
^3 Best ranked team from Asia ^4 Spain withdrew and replaced by France as the next highest ranked team
Draw
The draw for the tournament was conducted on 22 March 2018, at 18:00
ICT, at Arnoma Grand Hotel in
Bangkok.[3] The 16 men and 16 women teams were drawn into four groups of four.
For the Thomas Cup draw, the teams were allocated to three pots based on the World Team Rankings of 22 February 2018. Pot 1 contained the top seed China (which were assigned to position A1), the second seed Denmark (which were assigned to position D1) and the next two best teams, Indonesia and Chinese Taipei. Pot 2 contained the next best four teams, and Pot 3 was for the ninth to sixteenth seeds.
A similar procedure was applied for Uber Cup draw, where top seed Japan (which were assigned to position A1), the second seed China (which were assigned to position D1), Korea and Thailand were in Pot 1.