These Badminton Rankings are issued by: Badminton World Federation (BWF)
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Ranking as of 22nd May 2018
Men’s Singles
Shi Yuqi comes back in the top 3 after he had a marvellous week as he won his maiden title at All England Open 2018. On the other hand, Kidambi Srikanth of India failed to retain his number 3 ranking as he is now placed 4th in the table.
Chen Long also dipped as he lost his number 4th place to Kidambi and is now ranked 5th in the BWF World Rankings.
| Rank | Country | Player | Win – Lose | Points / Tournaments |
| 1 | Denmark | Viktor Axelsen | 279 – 107 | 77,570 / 10 |
| 2 | Korea | Son Wan Ho | 302 – 163 | 74,670 / 18 |
| 3 | China | Shi Yuqi | 139 – 49 | 74,135 / 12 |
| 4 | India | Kidambi Srikanth | 181 – 90 | 72,066 / 12 |
| 5 | China | Chen Long | 371 – 85 | 71,223 / 14 |
| 6 | Taiwan | Chou Tien Chen | 274 – 161 | 65,521 / 18 |
| 7 | Malaysia | Lee Chong Wei | 694 – 134 | 65,394 / 13 |
| 8 | India | Prannoy H. S. | 170 – 98 | 57,000 / 14 |
| 9 | Hong Kong | Ng Ka Long Angus | 206 – 112 | 55,029 / 17 |
| 10 | China | Lin Dan | 623 – 96 | 54,256 / 12 |
| 519 | Pakistan | Muhammad Irfan Saeed Bhatti | 8 – 6 | 1,960 / 2 |
| 548 | Pakistan | Rizwan Azam | 24 – 20 | 1,750 / 1 |
Women’s Singles
The highlight of women’s rankings this week was Carolina Marin, Sung Ji Hyun and He Bingbao as all these players upgraded their ranks by one position in the rankings table.
Meanwhile, it wasn’t a good week for Nozomi Okuara as she dipped 3 ranks below and is now placed 9th in the rankings table.
| Rank | Country | Player | Win – Lose | Points / Tournaments |
| 1 | Taiwan | Tai Tzu Ying | 299 – 128 | 87,109 / 13 |
| 2 | Japan | Akane Yamaguchi | 220 – 73 | 86,031 / 15 |
| 3 | India | Pusarla V. Sindhu | 260 – 109 | 78,824 / 16 |
| 4 | Thailand | Ratchanok Intanon | 310 – 139 | 78,824 / 16 |
| 5 | China | Chen Yufei | 132 – 52 | 69,418 / 16 |
| 6 | Spain | Carolina Marin | 311 – 97 | 64,816 / 13 |
| 7 | Korea | Sung Ji Hyun | 328 – 163 | 60,595 / 17 |
| 8 | China | He Bingjiao | 148 – 52 | 59,599 / 15 |
| 9 | Japan | Nozomi OKUHARA | 209 – 72 | 59,167 / 11 |
| 10 | India | Saina Nehwal | 381 – 163 | 55,890 / 13 |
Men’s Doubles
The prolific Denmark pair managed to take the break into the top 5 as they replaced Japan’s Takeshi and Kiego and are now placed 5th in the Men’s Doubles badminton rankings.
Another Japanese pair namely Takuto and Yuki also lost their place as they came 2 ranks down to go out of the top 10 ranks. Their place was taken by the Russian pair who are now placed 10th in the Men’s doubles.
| Rank | Country | Playing Pairs | Win – Lose | Points / Tournaments |
| 1 | Indonesia | Marcus Fernaldi Gideon
Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo |
127 – 36 | 97,789 / 13 |
| 2 | Denmark | Mathias Boe
Carsten Mogenson |
429 – 132 | 83,324 / 13 |
| 3 | China | Liu Cheng
Zhang Nan |
56 – 21 | 75,440 / 13 |
| 4 | China | Li Junhui
Liu Yuchen |
145 – 59 | 72,381 / 12 |
| 5 | Denmark | Mads Conrad-Peterson
Mads Pieler Kolding |
187 – 85 | 64,147 / 16 |
| 6 | Japan | Takeshi Kamura
Keigo Sonoda |
176 – 98 | 62,395 / 15 |
| 7 | Chinese Taipei | Lee Jhe-Huei
Lee Yang |
88 – 56 | 56,642 / 18 |
| 8 | Chinese Taipei | Chen Hung Ling
Wang Chi-Lin |
109 – 74 | 53,824 / 17 |
| 9 | Denmark | Kim Astrup
Anders Skaarup Rasmussen |
158 – 92 | 53,534 / 17 |
| 10 | Russia | Vladimir Ivanov
Ivan Sozonov |
251 – 114 | 52,870 / 15 |
| 388 | Pakistan | Muhammad Irfan Saeed Bhatti
Azeem Sarwar |
4 – 4 | 2,340 / 2 |
Women’s Doubles
Overall Japan players dominate the Women’s Doubles badminton rankings with 5 of their players in the top 10 rankings.
As, for the upgrade in rankings it was Japanese pair of Mayu and Wakana who managed to break into the top 10, courtesy of their performances this week.
The Bulgarian pair namely Gabriela and Stefani also moved a rank up and are now placed 9th in the badminton rankings.
| Rank | Country | Playing Pairs | Win – Lose | Points / Tournaments |
| 1 | China | Chen Qingchen
Jia Yifan |
125 – 35 | 82,582 / 14 |
| 2 | Japan | Yuki Fukushima
Sayaka Hirota |
109 – 41 | 78,423 / 14 |
| 3 | Denmark | Kamilla Rytter Juhl
Christinna Pederson |
265 – 103 | 77,448 / 13 |
| 4 | Japan | Misaki Matsutomo
Ayaka Takahashi |
313 – 115 | 73,510 / 14 |
| 5 | Japan | Shiho Tanaka
Koharu Yonemoto |
82 – 38 | 73,261 / 13 |
| 6 | Indonesia | Greysia Polii
Apriyani Rahayu |
34 – 12 | 64,824 / 14 |
| 7 | Korea | Lee So Hee
Shin Seung Chan |
111 – 56 | 63,769 / 11 |
| 8 | Thailand | Jongkolphan Kititharakul
Rawinda Prajongjai |
105 – 72 | 58,240 / 15 |
| 9 | Bulgaria | Gabriela Stoeva
Stefani Stoeva |
214 – 93 | 50,655 / 17 |
| 10 | Japan | Mayu Matsumoto
Wakana Nagahara |
58 – 29 | 50,070 / 10 |
Mixed Doubles
Chinese pair Zheng and Chen had to lose 4th ranking in the Mixed Doubles Badminton Rankings as they moved 3 ranks down to the 7th place.
On the other hand, He Jiting and Du Yue successfully managed to break in the top 10 and China has now 4 teams in the mixed doubles badminton rankings.
| Rank | Country | Playing Pairs | Win – Lose | Points / Tournaments |
| 1 | Indonesia | Tontowi Ahmad
Liliyana Natsir |
286 – 79 | 74,050 / 9 |
| 2 | China | Wang Yilyu
Huang Dongping |
50 – 17 | 70,580 / 11 |
| 3 | Hong Kong | Tang Chun Man
Tse Ying Suet |
51 – 25 | 68,678 / 16 |
| 4 | China | Zheng Siwei
Huang Yaqiong |
30 – 3 | 60,820 / 7 |
| 5 | Korea | Seo Seung Jae
Kim Ha Na |
36 – 13 | 58,970 / 16 |
| 6 | Denmark | Mathias Christiansen
Christinna Pederson |
25 – 8 | 56,980 / 9 |
| 7 | China | Zheng Siwei
Chen Qingchen |
117 – 21 | 56,537 / 6 |
| 8 | Malaysia | Goh Soon Huat
Shevon Jemie Lai |
52 – 21 | 55,590 / 17 |
| 9 | Indonesia | Praveen Jordan
Debby Susanto |
126 – 68 | 51,115 / 10 |
| 10 | China | He Jiting
Du Yue |
43 – 17 | 50,630 / 10 |
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