Badminton World Rankings – 22nd May 2018

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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 4^th in the table.

Chen Long also dipped as he lost his number 4^th place to Kidambi and is now ranked 5^th 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 9^th 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 5^th 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 10^th 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 9^th 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 4^th ranking in the Mixed Doubles Badminton Rankings as they moved 3 ranks down to the 7^th 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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