BWF World Ranking

The BWF World Ranking is the official ranking of the Badminton World Federation. It is used to determine the qualification for the World Championships and Olympic Games, as well as Super Series tournaments. Seeding of the draw at all BWF sanctioned tournaments is done using BWF World Ranking.^[1]

Players under 19 years of age are eligible to rank in the BWF World Junior Ranking, which were introduced in January 2011.^[2]

Overview

The ranking points awarded based on the level and progress of the tournament from each player/pair. Ranking points calculated are based on the tournament participated by each players/pairs for the last 52 weeks. If a player or pair has participated in 10 or fewer World Ranking tournaments, then the ranking is worked out by adding the points won at the tournaments. If a player or pair has participated in 11 or more World Ranking tournaments, only 10 highest points scored in the tournaments during the 52 week period count towards their ranking.^[3][4]

Points system

Points are awarded according to the following table:^[3]

^1 – At the Olympic Games, third place receive 9,200 points while fourth place receive 8,400 points.

Current rankings

Men's singles BWF World Rankings (Men's Singles) as of 26 March 2015[5] # Player Points 1 Chen Long 85,761 2 Jan Ø. Jørgensen 74,613 3 Lin Dan 65,460 4 Srikanth Kidambi 63,737 5 Shon Wan-ho 59,002 6 Viktor Axelsen 55,242 7 Chou Tien-chen 54,973 8 Lee Chong Wei 54,831 9 Hans-Kristian Vittinghus 51,766 10 Tommy Sugiarto 49,453 11 Wang Zhengming 47,630 12 Sho Sasaki 46,881 13 Parupalli Kashyap 46,253 14 Hu Yun 46,077 15 Kento Momota 46,054 16 Tian Houwei 45,667 17 H. S. Prannoy 43,760 18 Marc Zwiebler 43,208 19 Tanongsak Saensomboonsuk 41,580 20 Rajiv Ouseph 40,976 21 Dionysius Hayom Rumbaka 40,386 22 1 Hsu Jen-hao 40,242 23 1 Takuma Ueda 39,857 24 1 Vincent Wong Wing Ki 39,708 25 1 Scott Evans 39,333

Women's singles BWF World Rankings (Women's Singles) as of 2 April 2015[6] # Player Points 1 1 Saina Nehwal 80,764 2 1 Carolina Marín 79,232 3 2 Li Xuerui 71,414 4 1 Sung Ji-hyun 70,704 5 2 Wang Shixian 67,347 6 Tai Tzu-ying 67,268 7 1 Ratchanok Intanon 63,492 8 1 Wang Yihan 62,581 9 Pusarla Venkata Sindhu 55,635 10 Bae Youn-joo 52,263 11 3 Nozomi Okuhara 51,250 12 Zhang Beiwen 50,140 13 Akane Yamaguchi 48,815 14 1 Sayaka Takahashi 47,086 15 1 Sun Yu 47,038 16 5 Liu Xin 45,800 17 Michelle Li 45,311 18 Minatsu Mitani 44,509 19 Busanan Ongbumrungpan 42,937 20 1 Porntip Buranaprasertsuk 38,997 21 5 Yip Pui Yin 37,684 22 2 Nichaon Jindapon 37,526 23 9 Adriyanti Firdasari 36,666 24 1 Sayaka Sato 36,230 25 1 DING DING Ning 35,914

Men's doubles BWF World Rankings (Men's Doubles) as of 26 March 2015[7] # Player Points 1 Lee Yong-dae 87,738 Yoo Yeon-seong 2 Mathias Boe 75,370 Carsten Mogensen 3 Lee Sheng-mu 65,898 Tsai Chia-hsin 4 Liu Xiaolong 61,933 Qiu Zihan 5 Hiroyuki Endo 61,082 Kenichi Hayakawa 6 Ko Sung-hyun 60,950 Shin Baek-cheol 7 Mohammad Ahsan 57,570 Hendra Setiawan 8 Chai Biao 56,554 Hong Wei 9 Fu Haifeng 52,523 Zhang Nan 10 Mads Conrad-Petersen 51,526 Mads Pieler Kolding 11 Vladimir Ivanov 46,715 Ivan Sozonov 12 Hirokatsu Hashimoto 46,360 Noriyasu Hirata 13 Cai Yun 46,270 Lu Kai 14 Maneepong Jongjit 45,875 Nipitphon Puangpuapech 15 Kim Ki-jung 45,191 Kim Sa-rang 16 Takeshi Kamura 42,341 Keigo Sonoda 17 Markus Fernaldi Gideon 42,250 Markis Kido 18 Kim Astrup Sørensen 41,841 Anders Skaarup Rasmussen 19 5 Kenta Kazuno 39,880 Kazushi Yamada 20 1 Michael Fuchs 39,252 Johannes Schöttler 21 1 Adam Cwalina 38,216 Przemysław Wacha 22 1 Andrei Adistia 37,340 Hendra Aprida Gunawan 23 1 Danny Bawa Chrisnanta 37,321 Chayut Triyachart 24 1 Max Schwenger 37,231 Josche Zurwonne 25 Chen Hung-ling 36,080 Wang Chi-lin

Women's doubles BWF World Rankings (Women's Doubles) as of 26 March 2015[8] # Player Points 1 Tian Qing 86,182 Zhao Yunlei 2 Misaki Matsutomo 77,205 Ayaka Takahashi 3 Kamilla Rytter Juhl 68,170 Christinna Pedersen 4 Luo Ying 67,730 Luo Yu 5 Reika Kakiiwa 63,043 Miyuki Maeda 6 Jung Kyung-eun 59,308 Kim Ha-na 7 Wang Xiaoli 56,700 Yu Yang 8 Nitya Krishinda Maheswari 55,687 Greysia Polii 9 Jang Ye-na 47,936 Kim So-young 10 Lee So-hee 46,870 Shin Seung-chan 11 Eefje Muskens 46,227 Selena Piek 12 Shizuka Matsuo 42,903 Mami Naito 13 Ko A-ra 42,579 Yoo Hae-won 14 Shendy Puspa Irawati 41,200 Vita Marissa 15 Gabriela Stoeva 40,600 Stefani Stoeva 16 Vivian Hoo Kah Mun 39,685 Woon Khe Wei 17 Eva Lee 38,878 Paula Lynn Obanana 18 Jwala Gutta 38,506 Ashwini Ponnappa 19 Bao Yixin 36,540 Tang Jinhua 20 Pia Zebadiah Bernadeth 36,526 Rizki Amelia Pradipta 21 Puttita Supajirakul 36,163 Sapsiree Taerattanachai 22 1 Carla Nelte 35,372 Johanna Goliszewski 23 1 Amelia Alicia Anscelly 35,088 Soong Fie Cho 24 Duanganong Aroonkesorn 34,518 Kunchala Voravichitchaikul 25 3 Ayane Kurihara 34,010 Naru Shinoya

Mixed doubles BWF World Rankings (Mixed Doubles) as of 26 March 2015[9] # Player Points 1 Zhang Nan 78,530 Zhao Yunlei 2 Joachim Fischer Nielsen 77,274 Christinna Pedersen 3 Tontowi Ahmad 68,220 Lilyana Natsir 4 Xu Chen 63,560 Ma Jin 5 Liu Cheng 60,430 Bao Yixin 6 Chris Adcock 59,859 Gabrielle Adcock 7 Lu Kai 59,780 Huang Yaqiong 8 Ko Sung-hyun 59,330 Kim Ha-na 9 Riky Widianto 56,940 Richi Puspita Dili 10 Michael Fuchs 51,628 Birgit Michels 11 Mads Pieler Kolding 50,090 Kamilla Rytter Juhl 12 Praveen Jordan 49,550 Debby Susanto 13 Sudket Prapakamol 46,720 Saralee Thungthongkam 14 Muhammad Rijal 40,650 Vita Marissa 15 Danny Bawa Chrisnanta 40,640 Vanessa Neo Yu Yan 16 Reginald Lee Chun Hei 40,420 Chau Hoi Wah 17 Max Schwenger 39,023 Carla Nelte 18 Jorrit de Ruiter 39,005 Samantha Barning 19 Jacco Arends 37,886 Selena Piek 20 Maneepong Jongjit 37,640 Sapsiree Taerattanachai 21 1 Alan Chan Yun Lung 36,660 Tse Ying Suet 22 1 Vitalij Durkin 35,670 Nina Vislova 23 1 Sam Magee 35,140 Chloe Magee 24 1 Edi Subaktiar 35,020 Gloria Emanuelle Widjaja 25 1 Markis Kido 34,050 Pia Zebadiah Bernadeth

World team rankings BWF World Team Rankings as of 3 April 2015[10] # Country Confederation Points 1  China BAC 16,200 2  Korea BAC 12,800 3  Denmark BAC 11,700 4  Japan BE 11,450 5  Thailand BAC 10,050 6  Indonesia BAC 9,700 7  India BAC 8,200 8  Chinese Taipei BAC 8,150 9  Germany BE 7,950 10  Hong Kong BAC 7,750 11  Singapore BAC 6,500 11  Belize BPA 6,500 13  Russia BE 5,650 14  England BE 5,200 15  Malaysia BAC 5,175 16  Netherlands BE 4,725 17  United States BPA 4,600 18  Canada BPA 4,375 19  Scotland BE 3,250 20  Ukraine BE 2,775 21  Vietnam BAC 2,675 22  Turkey BE 2,600 23  Sweden BE 2,575 24  Australia BO 2,475 25  Ireland BE 2,375 26  Austria BE 2,330 27  Spain BE 2,300 28  Brazil BPA 2,250 29  Lithuania BE 2,100 30   Switzerland BE 1,925 31  Belgium BE 1,875 32  New Zealand BO 1,775 33  Peru BPA 1,750 33  Czech Republic BE 1,750 35  Finland BE 1,625 36  Bulgaria BE 1,600 37  Poland BE 1,550 37  Guatemala BPA 1,550 39  Nigeria BCA 1,475 40  Philippines BAC 1,415 41  Sri Lanka BAC 1,310 42  Italy BE 1,305 43  Mexico BPA 1,250 44  Estonia BE 1,180 45  South Africa BCA 1,000 45  Dominican Republic BPA 1,000 47  Israel BE 950 48  Croatia BE 925 49  Kazakhstan BAC 860 50  Argentina BPA 850

Year-end number one players

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Year	Men's Singles	Women's Singles	Men's Doubles	Women's Doubles	Mixed Doubles
2008	Lee Chong Wei	Zhou Mi	Markis Kido Hendra Setiawan	Du Jing Yu Yang	Nova Widianto Liliyana Natsir
2009	Lee Chong Wei	Wang Yihan	Koo Kien Keat Tan Boon Heong	Ma Jin Wang Xiaoli	Lee Yong-dae Lee Hyo-jung
2010	Lee Chong Wei	Wang Xin	Mathias Boe Carsten Mogensen	Cheng Wen-hsing Chien Yu-chin	Thomas Laybourn Kamilla Rytter Juhl
2011	Lee Chong Wei	Wang Yihan	Cai Yun Fu Haifeng	Wang Xiaoli Yu Yang	Zhang Nan Zhao Yunlei
2012	Lee Chong Wei	Li Xuerui	Mathias Boe Carsten Mogensen	Tian Qing Zhao Yunlei	Xu Chen Ma Jin
2013	Lee Chong Wei	Li Xuerui	Hendra Setiawan Mohammad Ahsan	Wang Xiaoli Yu Yang	Zhang Nan Zhao Yunlei
2014	Chen Long	Li Xuerui	Lee Yong-dae Yoo Yeon-seong	Tian Qing Zhao Yunlei	Zhang Nan Zhao Yunlei

Number one ranked players

The following is a list of players who have achieved the number one position since January 2009 (active players in purple):

Country	Player	Event	Date reached	Total weeks
MAS	Lee Chong Wei	MS	1 January 2009	298
HKG	Zhou Mi	WS	1 January 2009	17
INA	Markis Kido	MD	1 January 2009	35
INA	Hendra Setiawan
CHN	Du Jing	WD	1 January 2009	11
CHN	Yu Yang
INA	Nova Widianto	XD	1 January 2009	47
INA	Liliyana Natsir
MAS	Wong Pei Tty	WD	15 January 2009	25
MAS	Chin Eei Hui
DEN	Tine Baun	WS	22 January 2009	22
KOR	Jung Jae-sung	MD	22 January 2009	24
KOR	Lee Yong-dae
TPE	Chien Yu-chin	WD	22 January 2009	37
TPE	Cheng Wen-hsing
KOR	Lee Yong-dae	XD	18 June 2009	39
KOR	Lee Hyo-jung
CHN	Zhao Yunlei	WD	20 August 2009	6
CHN	Cheng Shu
CHN	Wang Lin	WS	24 September 2009	5
MAS	Koo Kien Keat	MD	24 September 2009	55
MAS	Tan Boon Heong
CHN	Zhang Yawen	WD	24 September 2009	6
CHN	Zhao Tingting
CHN	Wang Yihan	WS	29 October 2009	116
CHN	Ma Jin	WD	26 November 2009	36
CHN	Wang Xiaoli
CHN	Zheng Bo	XD	21 January 2010	8
CHN	Ma Jin
DEN	Thomas Laybourn	XD	24 June 2010	14
DEN	Kamilla Rytter Juhl
POL	Robert Mateusiak	XD	26 August 2010	1
POL	Nadieżda Zięba
CHN	Wang Xin	WS	23 September 2010	14
DEN	Mathias Boe	MD	11 November 2010	62
DEN	Carsten Mogensen
CHN	Wang Shixian	WS	13 January 2011	33
CHN	Zhang Nan	XD	2 February 2011	164
CHN	Zhao Yunlei
CHN	Wang Xiaoli	WD	28 April 2011	136
CHN	Yu Yang
CHN	Cai Yun	MD	23 June 2011	54
CHN	Fu Haifeng
CHN	Lin Dan	MS	21 June 2012	14
CHN	Xu Chen	XD	16 August 2012	57
CHN	Ma Jin
CHN	Tian Qing	WD	20 September 2012	43
CHN	Zhao Yunlei
CHN	Li Xuerui	WS	20 December 2012	121
KOR	Ko Sung-hyun	MD	30 May 2013	25
KOR	Lee Yong-dae
INA	Hendra Setiawan	MD	21 November 2013	38
INA	Mohammad Ahsan
CHN	Bao Yixin	WD	29 May 2014	22
CHN	Tang Jinhua
KOR	Lee Yong-dae	MD	14 August 2014	38
KOR	Yoo Yeon-seong
JPN	Misaki Matsutomo	WD	30 October 2014	9
JPN	Ayaka Takahashi
CHN	Chen Long	MS	24 December 2014	19
IND	Saina Nehwal	WS	2 April 2015	3
DEN	Joachim Fischer Nielsen	XD	2 April 2015	1
DEN	Christinna Pedersen

Last update: 30 April 2015

Players with highest career rank 2–5

The following is a list of players who were ranked world no. 5 or higher but not no. 1 in the period since the introduction of the BWF computer rankings (active players in purple):

World number 2 Player Event Date reached He Hanbin XD 1 January 2009 Yu Yang Lars Paaske MD 19 March 2009 Jonas Rasmussen Peter Gade MS 16 April 2009 Chen Jin MS 2 July 2009 Ha Jung-eun WD 5 November 2009 Kim Min-jung Hendra Aprida Gunawan XD 26 August 2010 Vita Marissa Miyuki Maeda WD 11 November 2010 Satoko Suetsuna Sudket Prapakamol XD 9 December 2010 Saralee Thoungthongkam Taufik Hidayat MS 16 December 2010 Ko Sung-hyun MD 2 February 2011 Yoo Yeon-seong Tontowi Ahmad XD 23 June 2011 Liliyana Natsir Tao Jiaming XD 18 August 2011 Tian Qing Bao Yixin WD 1 November 2012 Zhong Qianxin Juliane Schenk WS 20 June 2013 Ma Jin WD 11 July 2013 Tang Jinhua Ratchanok Intanon WS 15 August 2013 Kamilla Rytter Juhl WD 24 October 2013 Christinna Pedersen Hiroyuki Endo MD 6 March 2014 Kenichi Hayakawa Jan Ø. Jørgensen MS 22 January 2015 Carolina Marín WS 2 April 2015

World number 3 Player Event Date reached Lu Lan WS 1 January 2009 Lee Kyung-won WD 22 January 2009 Lee Hyo-jung Yang Wei WD 5 March 2009 Zhang Jiewen Pi Hongyan WS 2 April 2009 Xie Xingfang WS 25 June 2009 Jiang Yanjiao WS 21 January 2010 Guo Zhendong MD 1 July 2010 Xu Chen Simon Santoso MS 26 August 2010 Petya Nedelcheva WD 25 November 2010 Anastasia Russkikh Fang Chieh-min MD 9 December 2010 Lee Sheng-mu Mizuki Fujii WD 18 August 2011 Reika Kakiiwa Chan Peng Soon XD 22 November 2012 Goh Liu Ying Du Pengyu MS 17 January 2013 Shizuka Matsuo WD 25 April 2013 Mami Naito Kenichi Tago MS 31 October 2013 Tommy Sugiarto MS 19 December 2013 Luo Ying WD 18 December 2014 Luo Yu Ko Sung-hyun MD 22 January 2015 Shin Baek-cheol Lee Sheng-mu MD 12 March 2015 Tsai Chia-hsin Liu Cheng XD 2 April 2015 Bao Yixin

World number 4 Player Event Date reached Sony Dwi Kuncoro MS 1 January 2009 Zhu Lin WS 1 January 2009 Mohd Zakry Abdul Latif MD 1 January 2009 Mohd Fairuzizuan Mohd Tazari Liliyana Natsir WD 1 January 2009 Vita Marissa Anthony Clark XD 1 January 2009 Donna Kellogg Wang Chen WS 15 January 2009 Boonsak Ponsana MS 2 December 2010 Valeria Sorokina WD 16 December 2010 Nina Vislova Duanganong Aroonkesorn WD 13 January 2011 Kunchala Voravichitchaikul Ko Sung-hyun XD 2 June 2011 Ha Jung-eun Kim Ki-jung MD 13 December 2012 Kim Sa-rang Hong Wei MD 17 January 2013 Shen Ye Hu Yun MS 30 May 2013 Sung Ji-hyun WS 24 October 2013 Jang Ye-na WD 14 August 2014 Kim So-young Shon Wan-ho MS 27 November 2014 Srikanth Kidambi MS 24 December 2014 Liu Xiaolong MD 12 March 2015 Qiu Zihan Chai Biao MD 2 April 2015 Hong Wei Tai Tzu-ying WS 30 April 2015

World number 5 Player Event Date reached Alvent Yulianto Chandra MD 26 November 2009 Hendra Aprida Gunawan Tao Jiaming XD 26 August 2010 Zhang Yawen Nathan Robertson XD 25 November 2010 Jenny Wallwork Nguyễn Tiến Minh MS 2 December 2010 Pan Pan WD 16 December 2010 Tian Qing Liu Xin WS 14 April 2011 Greysia Polii WD 12 May 2011 Meiliana Jauhari Bae Youn-joo WS 2 June 2011 Chen Hung-ling XD 3 November 2011 Cheng Wen-hsing Chai Biao MD 22 December 2011 Guo Zhendong Mohammad Ahsan MD 9 August 2012 Bona Septano Eom Hye-won WD 25 April 2013 Jang Ye-na Jung Kyung-eun WD 26 September 2013 Kim Ha-na Chris Adcock XD 28 November 2013 Gabrielle Adcock Reika Kakiiwa WD 17 April 2014 Miyuki Maeda Lu Kai XD 27 November 2014 Huang Yaqiong Ko Sung-hyun XD 4 December 2014 Kim Ha-na

References

International badminton BWF Thomas Cup Uber Cup Sudirman Cup World Championships World Junior Championships Olympics World Cup World Grand Prix (defunct) World Ranking World Junior Ranking Hall of Fame Teams Africa BCA – African Championships Asia BAC – Asia Championships Junior Championships Europe BE – European Championships Junior Championships Oceania BO – Oceania Championships Americas BPA – Pan Am Championships Junior Championships Games All-Africa Games Asian Games Commonwealth Games Deaflympics East Asian Games Island Games Pan American Games Pan Arab Games Southeast Asian Games Universiade World Games (defunct)