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{{Infobox badminton event
| name           = 1952 Thomas Cup
| image          = 
| caption        =
| dates          = 24 May – 1 June 1952
| number_edition = 2nd
| level          = 1
| nations        = 4
| host           =
| venue          = Selangor Badminton Association Hall<br/>[[Gay World Amusement Park#Indoor stadium|Happy World Stadium]]
| location       = [[Kuala Lumpur]], [[Malaysia]]<br/>[[Kallang]], [[Colony of Singapore|Singapore]]
| website        = 
| previous       = [[1949 Thomas Cup|1949]]
| next           = [[1955 Thomas Cup|1955]]
}}

The '''1952 Thomas Cup''' competition is an international team tournament for supremacy in men's [[badminton]] (its female counterpart is the [[Uber Cup]]). Beginning in [[1949 Thomas Cup|1948–49]], it was held every three years until [[1982 Thomas Cup|1982]] and thereafter has been held every two years. Twelve national teams contested for the Thomas Cup in the 1951-1952 badminton season, the tournament's second edition. According to the rules then in place [[Malaysia national badminton team|Malaya]] was exempt from earlier ''ties'' (team matches), needing only to defend its title in a conclusive '''challenge round''' tie. The other contestants were divided into three regional qualifying zones, the Pacific, Europe, and Pan America, for the early ties. The winners of each zone then played-off in Malaya for the right to face Malaya in the challenge round. For a more detailed description of the Thomas Cup format see Wikipedia's general article on the [[Thomas Cup]].

==Qualification==
{{main|1952 Thomas Cup qualification}}
[[India national badminton team|India]] qualified in the Pacific Zone by beating newcomers [[Thailand national badminton team|Thailand]] and [[Australia national badminton team|Australia]] without the loss of a match (thus, 9&ndash;0 in each case). Six of the twelve teams in the tournament contested in the European zone. Here [[Denmark national badminton team|Denmark]] emerged victorious, but not without a tough fight from [[Sweden national badminton team|Sweden]] (6&ndash;3) in the zone semifinal. In the Pan American zone with only two teams, the [[United States national badminton team|United States]] defeated [[Canada national badminton team|Canada]] 6&ndash;3, trumping a fine performance by Canada's [[Donald Smythe|Don Smythe]].
{| class="wikitable" width="900"
! width="30%" |Means of qualification
! width="22%" |Date
! width="20%" |Venue
! width="6%" |Slot
! width="22%" |Qualified teams
|-
|[[1949 Thomas Cup]]
|22 – 26 February 1949
|[[Preston, Lancashire|Preston]]
| align="center" |1
|{{bd|Malaysia|variant=1948|name=Malaya}}
|-
|Pacific Zone
|30 June – 1 October 1951
|[[Mumbai|Bombay]]<br/>[[Melbourne]]
| align="center" |1
|{{bd|IND|variant=}}
|-
|American Zone
|23 – 24 March 1952
|[[Calgary]]
| align="center" |1
|{{bd|USA|variant=1912}}
|-
|European Zone
|10 November 1951 – 19 March 1952
|[[Paris]]<br/>[[Bessbrook]]<br/>[[Nottingham]]<br/>[[Copenhagen]]<br/>[[Manchester]]
| align="center" |1
|{{bd|DEN}}
|-
! colspan="3" |Total
!4
!
|}

==Squads==
{{details|1952 Thomas Cup squads}}

==Knockout stage==
{{main|1952 Thomas Cup knockout stage}}

The following four teams, shown by region, qualified for the 1952 Thomas Cup. Defending champion and host Malaya automatically qualified to defend the title it had won three years previously.

=== Bracket ===
{{:1952 Thomas Cup knockout stage|transcludesection=Bracket}}

=== First round ===
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=== Second round ===
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=== Final ===
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{{winners|bd|1952 Thomas Cup winner|Malaysia|Second|variant=1948|name=Malaya}}

==References==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20061214221836/http://tangkis.tripod.com/thomas/calendar.htm tangkis.tripod.com]
* [http://www2.sbg.ac.at/populorum/badminton/archiv_thomascup.htm Mike's Badminton Populorum] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160330231130/http://www2.sbg.ac.at/populorum/badminton/archiv_thomascup.htm |date=2016-03-30 }}
*Herbert Scheele ed., The ''International Badminton Federation Handbook for 1967'' (Canterbury, Kent, England: J. A. Jennings Ltd., 1967) 66&ndash;69.
*Pat Davis, The ''Guinness Book of Badminton'' (Enfield, Middlesex, England: Guinness Superlatives Ltd., 1983) 120, 121.

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