BWF World Ranking
The BWF World Ranking is the official ranking of the Badminton World Federation for badminton players who participate in tournaments sanctioned by Badminton World Federation. It is used to determine the qualification for the World Championships and Summer Olympic Games,[1] as well as Super Series tournaments.[2] Seeding of the draw at all BWF sanctioned tournaments is done using BWF World Ranking.[3]
Players under 19 years of age are eligible to rank in the BWF World Junior Ranking, which were introduced in January 2011.The list followed are the rankings .[4]
Overview
The ranking points are 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. The highest possible ranking points are 111,000.[1][5]
Points system
Points are awarded according to the following table:[5]
Tournament |
Winner |
Runner-up |
3/4 |
5/8 |
9/16 |
17/32 |
33/64 |
65/128 |
129/256 |
257/512 |
513/1024 |
BWF tournaments (World Championships and Olympic Games)1 |
12,000 | 10,200 | 8,400 | 6,600 | 4,800 | 3,000 | 1,200 | 600 | 240 | 120 | 60 |
Super Series Masters Finals Super Series Premier |
11,000 | 9,350 | 7,700 | 6,050 | 4,320 | 2,660 | 1,060 | 520 | | | |
Super Series |
9,200 | 7,800 | 6,420 | 5,040 | 3,600 | 2,220 | 880 | 430 | 170 | 80 | 40 |
Grand Prix Gold |
7,000 | 5,950 | 4,900 | 3,850 | 2,750 | 1,670 | 660 | 320 | 130 | 60 | 30 |
Grand Prix |
5,500 | 4,680 | 3,850 | 3,030 | 2,110 | 1,290 | 510 | 240 | 100 | 45 | 30 |
International Challenge |
4,000 | 3,400 | 2,800 | 2,200 | 1,520 | 920 | 360 | 170 | 70 | 30 | 20 |
International Series |
2,500 | 2,130 | 1,750 | 1,370 | 920 | 550 | 210 | 100 | 40 | 20 | 10 |
Future Series |
1,700 | 1,420 | 1,170 | 920 | 600 | 350 | 130 | 60 | 20 | 10 | 5 |
- ^1 – At the Olympic Games, third place receives 9,200 points while fourth place receives 8,400 points.
Current rankings
Men's singles
BWF World Rankings (Men's Singles) as of 24 November 2016[6] |
# | | | Player | Points |
1 |
| | Lee Chong Wei | 86,103 |
2 |
| | Chen Long | 76,864 |
3 |
3 | | Jan Ø. Jørgensen | 73,522 |
4 |
| | Viktor Axelsen | 70,494 |
5 |
2 | | Lin Dan | 68,208 |
6 |
1 | | Tian Houwei | 67,070 |
7 |
1 | | Son Wan-ho | 65,884 |
8 |
| | Chou Tien-chen | 56,175 |
9 |
| | Shi Yuqi | 52,800 |
10 |
| | Tanongsak Saensomboonsuk | 52,602 |
|
Women's singles
BWF World Rankings (Women's Singles) as of 24 November 2016[7] |
# | | | Player | Points |
1 |
| | Carolina Marín | 80,530 |
2 |
| | Ratchanok Intanon | 75,524 |
3 |
2 | | Tai Tzu-ying | 74,491 |
4 |
1 | | Nozomi Okuhara | 73,927 |
5 |
2 | | Sung Ji-hyun | 69,076 |
6 |
3 | | Sun Yu | 68,992 |
7 |
3 | | Li Xuerui | 67,654 |
8 |
| | Akane Yamaguchi | 66,999 |
9 |
2 | | P.V. Sindhu | 64,749 |
10 |
| | He Bingjiao | 64,331 |
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Men's doubles
BWF World Rankings (Men's Doubles) as of 24 November 2016[8] |
# | | | Player | Points |
1 |
| | Goh V Shem | 71,297 |
| Tan Wee Kiong |
3 |
1 | | Mathias Boe | 70,834 |
| Carsten Mogensen |
3 |
1 | | Chai Biao | 68,570 |
| Hong Wei |
4 |
3 | | Marcus Fernaldi Gideon | 68,041 |
| Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo |
5 |
1 | | Hendra Setiawan | 64,800 |
| Mohammad Ahsan |
6 |
| | Fu Haifeng | 63,105 |
| Zhang Nan |
7 |
2 | | Li Junhui | 61,619 |
| Liu Yuchen |
8 |
| | Angga Pratama | 61,339 |
| Ricky Karanda Suwardi |
9 |
| | Vladimir Ivanov | 59,443 |
| Ivan Sozonov |
10 |
1 | | Takeshi Kamura | 59,432 |
| Keigo Sonoda |
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Women's doubles
BWF World Rankings (Women's Doubles) as of 24 November 2016[9] |
# | | | Player | Points |
1 |
| | Misaki Matsutomo | 95,693 |
| Ayaka Takahashi |
2 |
| | Jung Kyung-eun | 77,654 |
| Shin Seung-chan |
3 |
| | Kamilla Rytter Juhl | 77,654 |
| Christinna Pedersen |
4 |
| | Nitya Krishinda Maheswari | 73,219 |
| Greysia Polii |
5 |
| | Luo Ying | 72,163 |
| Luo Yu |
6 |
| | Chang Ye-na | 69,463 |
| Lee So-hee |
7 |
| | Naoko Fukuman | 63,934 |
| Kurumi Yonao |
9 |
1 | | Shizuka Matsuo | 56,176 |
| Mami Naito |
8 |
1 | | Chen Qingchen | 55,350 |
| Jia Yifan |
10 |
1 | | Puttita Supajirakul | 53,415 |
| Sapsiree Taerattanachai |
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Mixed doubles
BWF World Rankings (Mixed Doubles) as of 17 November 2016[10] |
# | | | Player | Points |
1 |
| | Ko Sung-hyun | 79,140 |
| Kim Ha-na |
2 |
| | Zheng Siwei | 72,960 |
| Chen Qingchen |
3 |
| | Joachim Fischer Nielsen | 71,270 |
| Christinna Pedersen |
4 |
| | Chan Peng Soon | 67,060 |
| Goh Liu Ying |
5 |
| | Praveen Jordan | 65,940 |
| Debby Susanto |
6 |
| | Xu Chen | 63,630 |
| Ma Jin |
7 |
| | Tontowi Ahmad | 62,840 |
| Lilyana Natsir |
8 |
| | Lu Kai | 62,790 |
| Huang Yaqiong |
9 |
| | Chris Adcock | 61,740 |
| Gabrielle Adcock |
10 |
| | Liu Cheng | 52,930 |
| Bao Yixin |
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World team rankings
BWF World Team Rankings as of 6 October 2016[11][12] |
# | Country | Confederation | Points |
1 |
China |
BAC |
11,100 |
2 |
Korea |
BAC |
10,400 |
3 |
Denmark |
BE |
9,300 |
4 |
Indonesia |
BAC |
8,650 |
5 |
Japan |
BAC |
7,950 |
6 |
Malaysia |
BAC |
7,900 |
7 |
Thailand |
BAC |
6,500 |
8 |
Chinese Taipei |
BAC |
6,400 |
9 |
India |
BAC |
5,650 |
10 |
Hong Kong |
BAC |
5,500 |
11 |
England |
BE |
5,388 |
12 |
Germany |
BE |
4,500 |
13 |
Russia |
BE |
4,386 |
14 |
United States |
BPA |
3,850 |
15 |
France |
BE |
3,688 |
16 |
Spain |
BE |
3,338 |
17 |
Bulgaria |
BE |
3,113 |
18 |
Australia |
BO |
3,050 |
18 |
Canada |
BPA |
3,050 |
20 |
Singapore |
BAC |
2,901 |
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Year-end number one players
[13]
Number one ranked players
The following is a list of players who have achieved the number one position since 1 January 2009 (active players in purple):
Last update: 24 November 2016
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):
Last update: 28 July 2016
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