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 BWF World Tour tournaments.[2] Seedings of draws at all BWF-sanctioned tournaments are conducted using the 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 following lists 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 tournaments each players/pairs participate in from the last 52 weeks. If a player or pair has participated in ten or fewer World Ranking tournaments, then the ranking is worked out by adding together the points won at tournaments in the last 52 weeks. If a player or pair has participated in 11 or more World Ranking tournaments, only the 10 highest points scored in the tournaments during the 52-week period count towards their ranking. The highest possible ranking points are 116,000.[1][5][6]

Points system

Points system used are as follows:[5]

2007–2017 system

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.

2018–2021 system

Since 2018, BWF has started a new system for counting points:

Tournament	Winner	Runner-up	3/4	5/8	9/16	17/32	33/64	65/128	129/256	257/512	513/1024
Grade 1 – BWF tournaments
World Championships	13,000	11,000	9,200	7,200	5,200	3,200	1,300	650	260	130	65
Olympic Games^1	13,000	11,000	^19,200	7,200	5,200	3,200	1,300	650	260	130	65
Grade 2 – BWF World Tour
Level 1 (Finals)	12,000	10,200	8,400	6,600	4,800	3,000	1,200	600	240	120	60
Level 2 (Super 1000)	12,000	10,200	8,400	6,600	4,800	3,000	1,200	600	240	120	60
Level 3 (Super 750)	11,000	9,350	7,700	6,050	4,320	2,660	1,060	520	210	100	50
Level 4 (Super 500)	9,200	7,800	6,420	5,040	3,600	2,220	880	430	170	80	40
Level 5 (Super 300)	7,000	5,950	4,900	3,850	2,750	1,670	660	320	130	60	30
Level 6 (Super 100)	5,500	4,680	3,850	3,030	2,110	1,290	510	240	100	45	30
Grade 3
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 3rd place will receive 10,100 points. Fourth place will receive 9,200 points.

Current rankings

Men's Singles BWF World Rankings (Men's singles) as of 2 February 2021[7] # Country/Territory Players Points 1  Japan Kento Momota 109,118 2 2  Denmark Viktor Axelsen 94,278 3  Denmark Anders Antonsen 92,662 4 2  Chinese Taipei Chou Tien-chen 89,828 5 1  Indonesia Anthony Sinisuka Ginting 82,182 6 1  China Chen Long 78,440 7  Indonesia Jonatan Christie 74,770 8  Hong Kong, China Ng Ka Long 69,270 9 4  Chinese Taipei Wang Tzu-wei 63,393 10 1  China Shi Yuqi 62,061 11 1  Malaysia Lee Zii Jia 61,609 12 1  Denmark Rasmus Gemke 60,270 13 1  India Srikanth Kidambi 56,399 14 2  Japan Kanta Tsuneyama 56,125 15  Japan Kenta Nishimoto 54,233 16 5  Hong Kong, China Lee Cheuk Yiu 53,961 17 1  India B. Sai Praneeth 53,817 18 1  Thailand Kantaphon Wangcharoen 52,721 19 1  Indonesia Shesar Hiren Rhustavito 50,400 20 1  China Lin Dan 47,670

Women's singles BWF World Rankings (Women's singles) as of 2 February 2021[8] # Country/Territory Player Points 1  Chinese Taipei Tai Tzu-ying 106,075 2  China Chen Yufei 96,465 3 2  Spain Carolina Marín 95,800 4 1  Japan Nozomi Okuhara 91,586 5 1  Japan Akane Yamaguchi 87,220 6  Thailand Ratchanok Intanon 80,285 7  India P. V. Sindhu 76,034 8 2  South Korea An Se-young 74,478 9 1  China He Bingjiao 69,590 10 1  Canada Michelle Li 67,550 11 3  Thailand Pornpawee Chochuwong 62,476 12 4  Denmark Mia Blichfeldt 56,821 13  Thailand Busanan Ongbamrungphan 54,954 14 3  Japan Sayaka Takahashi 54,734 15  South Korea Sung Ji-hyun 54,010 16 4  United States Zhang Beiwen 53,370 17  China Wang Zhiyi 50,640 18  South Korea Kim Ga-eun 50,413 19 1  India Saina Nehwal 48,407 20 1  Japan Aya Ohori 47,499

Men's doubles BWF World Rankings (Men's doubles) as of 2 February 2021[9] # Country/Territory Player Points 1  Indonesia Marcus Fernaldi Gideon 106,853  Indonesia Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo 2  Indonesia Mohammad Ahsan 100,557  Indonesia Hendra Setiawan 3 4  Chinese Taipei Lee Yang 87,923  Chinese Taipei Wang Chi-lin 4 1  China Li Junhui 82,930  China Liu Yuchen 5 1  Japan Takeshi Kamura 80,123  Japan Keigo Sonoda 6 1  Japan Hiroyuki Endo 78,133  Japan Yuta Watanabe 7 1  Indonesia Fajar Alfian 72,894  Indonesia Muhammad Rian Ardianto 8  South Korea Choi Sol-gyu 66,960  South Korea Seo Seung-jae 9  Malaysia Aaron Chia 65,228  Malaysia Soh Wooi Yik 10  India Satwiksairaj Rankireddy 63,900  India Chirag Shetty 11 4  Malaysia Goh V Shem 61,430  Malaysia Tan Wee Kiong 12 1  England Marcus Ellis 59,054  England Chris Langridge 13 4  Malaysia Ong Yew Sin 58,209  Malaysia Teo Ee Yi 14 3  Japan Takuro Hoki 57,188  Japan Yugo Kobayashi 15 3  Denmark Kim Astrup 56,369  Denmark Anders Skaarup Rasmussen 16  Russia Vladimir Ivanov 54,454  Russia Ivan Sozonov 17 3  China Han Chengkai 54,107  China Zhou Haodong 18 8  England Ben Lane 52,336  England Sean Vendy 19 1  Chinese Taipei Liao Min-chun 49,026  Chinese Taipei Su Ching-heng 20 1  China He Jiting 48,860  China Tan Qiang

Women's doubles BWF World Rankings (Women's doubles) as of 2 February 2021[10] # Country/Territory Player Points 1  Japan Yuki Fukushima 99,108  Japan Sayaka Hirota 2  China Chen Qingchen 95,310  China Jia Yifan 3  Japan Mayu Matsumoto 92,383  Japan Wakana Nagahara 4  South Korea Lee So-hee 92,162  South Korea Shin Seung-chan 5 1  South Korea Kim So-yeong 88,236  South Korea Kong Hee-yong 6 1  Indonesia Greysia Polii 83,115  Indonesia Apriyani Rahayu 7 2  China Du Yue 78,129  China Li Yinhui 8 2  Thailand Jongkolphan Kititharakul 69,197  Thailand Rawinda Prajongjai 9 1  South Korea Chang Ye-na 62,940  South Korea Kim Hye-rin 10 4  Malaysia Chow Mei Kuan 59,964  Malaysia Lee Meng Yean 11 2  South Korea Baek Ha-na 59,110  South Korea Jung Kyung-eun 12 1  Japan Nami Matsuyama 57,771  Japan Chiharu Shida 13 1  China Li Wenmei 56,340  China Zheng Yu 14 1  Bulgaria Gabriela Stoeva 54,750  Bulgaria Stefani Stoeva 15  England Chloe Birch 53,873  England Lauren Smith 16  Denmark Maiken Fruergaard 50,012  Denmark Sara Thygesen 17 7  Malaysia Vivian Hoo Kah Mun 48,502  Malaysia Yap Cheng Wen 18 1  China Liu Xuanxuan 46,060  China Xia Yuting 19 1  Japan Ayako Sakuramoto 45,304  Japan Yukiko Takahata 20 1  Indonesia Della Destiara Haris 44,963  Indonesia Rizki Amelia Pradipta

Mixed doubles BWF World Rankings (Mixed doubles) as of 2 February 2021[11] # Country/Territory Player Points 1  China Zheng Siwei 109,002  China Huang Yaqiong 2 1  Thailand Dechapol Puavaranukroh 100,563  Thailand Sapsiree Taerattanachai 3 1  China Wang Yilü 99,312  China Huang Dongping 4  Indonesia Praveen Jordan 85,900  Indonesia Melati Daeva Oktavianti 5 1  South Korea Seo Seung-jae 79,570  South Korea Chae Yoo-jung 6 1  Japan Yuta Watanabe 75,883  Japan Arisa Higashino 7 1  Malaysia Chan Peng Soon 68,070  Malaysia Goh Liu Ying 8 1  Indonesia Hafiz Faizal 65,941  Indonesia Gloria Emanuelle Widjaja 9 2  England Marcus Ellis 65,140  England Lauren Smith 10 3  Malaysia Goh Soon Huat 61,822  Malaysia Shevon Jemie Lai 11 1  Hong Kong, China Tang Chun Man 60,566  Hong Kong, China Tse Ying Suet 12 1  Malaysia Tan Kian Meng 60,463  Malaysia Lai Pei Jing 13 3  France Thom Gicquel 60,020  France Delphine Delrue 14 2  England Chris Adcock 59,002  England Gabby Adcock 15 1  Germany Mark Lamsfuß 57,230  Germany Isabel Herttrich 16 1  China He Jiting 52,901  China Du Yue 17  Netherlands Robin Tabeling 51,014  Netherlands Selena Piek 18 3  Denmark Mathias Christiansen 46,090  Denmark Alexandra Bøje 19 16  India Satwiksairaj Rankireddy 45,177  India Ashwini Ponnappa 20 6  South Korea Ko Sung-hyun 44,740  South Korea Eom Hye-won

World team rankings BWF World Team Rankings as of 7 January 2020[12] # Country/Territory Confederation Points 1  China BAC 12,200 2  Japan BAC 11,500 3  Indonesia BAC 8,850 4  Thailand BAC 8,100 5 1  Chinese Taipei BAC 7,700 6 1  South Korea BAC 7,550 7  Malaysia BAC 7,150 8  Denmark BE 6,200 9 1  India BAC 5,700 10 1  Hong Kong, China BAC 5,400 11 1  Netherlands BE 4,950 12 2  Germany BE 4,925 13 3  England BE 4,500 14 2  Canada BPA 4,450 15  Russia BE 4,250 16  France BE 3,975 17  Singapore BAC 3,650 18  United States BPA 3,350 19 2  Vietnam BAC 2,800 20 1  Australia BOC 2,725

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		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		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	Mohammad Ahsan Hendra Setiawan	Wang Xiaoli Yu Yang	Zhang Nan Zhao Yunlei
2014	Chen Long		Lee Yong-dae Yoo Yeon-seong	Tian Qing Zhao Yunlei	Zhang Nan Zhao Yunlei
2015	Chen Long	Carolina Marín	Lee Yong-dae Yoo Yeon-seong	Luo Ying Luo Yu	Zhang Nan Zhao Yunlei
2016	Lee Chong Wei	Tai Tzu-ying	Goh V Shem Tan Wee Kiong	Misaki Matsutomo Ayaka Takahashi	Zheng Siwei Chen Qingchen
2017	Viktor Axelsen	Tai Tzu-ying	Marcus Fernaldi Gideon Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo	Chen Qingchen Jia Yifan	Zheng Siwei Chen Qingchen
2018	Kento Momota	Tai Tzu-ying	Marcus Fernaldi Gideon Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo	Yuki Fukushima Sayaka Hirota	Zheng Siwei Huang Yaqiong
2019	Kento Momota	Chen Yufei		Chen Qingchen Jia Yifan	Zheng Siwei Huang Yaqiong
2020		Tai Tzu-ying		Yuki Fukushima Sayaka Hirota

No. 1 during every week of the year

Number one ranked players timeline

The following is a list of players who have achieved the number one position since 1 October 2009 (active players in light yellow, and current number 1 players are marked in bold):

Last updated: 2 February 2021

NOTE: BWF has frozen the World Rankings from 17 March 2020 to 1 February 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Men's singles

# Player Date started Date ended Consecutive weeks Total weeks 1 Lee Chong Wei 1 October 2009 20 June 2012 142 (142) 2 Lin Dan 21 June 2012 26 September 2012 14 14 Lee Chong Wei 27 September 2012 24 December 2014 117 (259) 3 Chen Long 25 December 2014 8 June 2016 76 76 Lee Chong Wei 9 June 2016 24 May 2017 50 (309) 4 Son Wan-ho 25 May 2017 30 May 2017 1 (1) Lee Chong Wei 1 June 2017 7 June 2017 1 310 Son Wan-ho 8 June 2017 27 September 2017 16 17 5 Viktor Axelsen 28 September 2017 11 April 2018 28 (28) 6 Srikanth Kidambi 12 April 2018 18 April 2018 1 1 Viktor Axelsen 19 April 2018 26 September 2018 23 51 7 Kento Momota 27 September 2018 79 79

Weeks spent as top-ranked men's singles shuttler from 1990 to week 12 of 2020 (Note: There is a slight difference in total counts due to the nonsynchronous nature of unofficial unified ranking week count which began on 01/01/1990 and the official BWF World Ranking which began on 01/10/2009.) Weeks ranked world no. 1 men's singles shuttler by their nationality from 1990 to week 12 of 2020.

Women's singles

# Player Date started Date ended Consecutive weeks Total weeks 1 Wang Lin 1 October 2009 28 October 2009 4 4 2 Wang Yihan 29 October 2009 22 September 2010 47 (47) 3 Wang Xin 23 September 2010 1 December 2010 10 (10) 4 Tine Baun 2 December 2010 8 December 2010 1 1 Wang Yihan 9 December 2010 15 December 2010 1 (48) Wang Xin 16 December 2010 12 January 2011 4 14 5 Wang Shixian 13 January 2011 19 January 2011 1 (1) Wang Yihan 20 January 2011 26 January 2011 1 (49) Wang Shixian 27 January 2011 17 August 2011 29 (30) Wang Yihan 18 August 2011 2 November 2011 11 (60) Wang Shixian 3 November 2011 23 November 2011 3 33 Wang Yihan 24 November 2011 19 December 2012 56 116 6 Li Xuerui 20 December 2012 1 April 2015 119 (119) 7 Saina Nehwal 2 April 2015 8 April 2015 1 (1) Li Xuerui 9 April 2015 15 April 2015 1 (120) Saina Nehwal 16 April 2015 29 April 2015 2 (3) Li Xuerui 30 April 2015 20 May 2015 3 (123) Saina Nehwal 21 May 2015 3 June 2015 2 (5) Li Xuerui 4 June 2015 10 June 2015 1 124 8 Carolina Marín 11 June 2015 19 August 2015 10 (10) Saina Nehwal 20 August 2015 20 October 2015 9 14 Carolina Marín 21 October 2015 20 April 2016 26 (36) 9 Ratchanok Intanon 21 April 2016 4 May 2016 2 2 Carolina Marín 5 May 2016 30 November 2016 30 66 10 Tai Tzu-ying 1 December 2016 18 April 2018 72 (72) 11 Akane Yamaguchi 19 April 2018 2 May 2018 2 (2) Tai Tzu-ying 3 May 2018 29 July 2019 65 (137) Akane Yamaguchi 30 July 2019 23 September 2019 8 10 Tai Tzu-ying 24 September 2019 28 October 2019 5 (142) 12 Nozomi Okuhara 29 October 2019 11 November 2019 2 2 Tai Tzu-ying 12 November 2019 16 December 2019 5 (147) 13 Chen Yufei 17 December 2019 16 March 2020 13 13 Tai Tzu-ying 17 March 2020 2 149

Weeks spent as top-ranked women's singles shuttler from 1990 to week 12 of 2020 (Note: There is a slight difference in total counts due to the nonsynchronous nature of unofficial unified ranking week count which began on 01/01/1990 and the official BWF World Ranking which began on 01/10/2009, hence the non-display of Ratchanok INTANON above.) Weeks ranked world no. 1 women's singles shuttler by their nationality from 1990 to week 12 of 2020.

Men's doubles

# Player Date started Date ended Consecutive weeks Total weeks 1 Markis Kido 1 October 2009 28 October 2009 4 4 Hendra Setiawan 2 Koo Kien Keat 29 October 2009 10 November 2010 54 54 Tan Boon Heong 3 Mathias Boe 11 November 2010 22 June 2011 32 (32) Carsten Mogensen 4 Cai Yun 23 June 2011 20 June 2012 52 (52) Fu Haifeng 5 Jung Jae-sung 21 June 2012 8 August 2012 7 (7) Lee Yong-dae Cai Yun 9 August 2012 15 August 2012 1 (53) Fu Haifeng Jung Jae-sung 16 August 2012 19 September 2012 5 (12) Lee Yong-dae Cai Yun 20 September 2012 26 September 2012 1 54 Fu Haifeng Jung Jae-sung 27 September 2012 31 October 2012 5 17 Lee Yong-dae Mathias Boe 1 November 2012 29 May 2013 30 (62) Carsten Mogensen 6 Ko Sung-hyun 30 May 2013 20 November 2013 25 25 Lee Yong-dae 7 Hendra Setiawan 21 November 2013 13 August 2014 38 38 Mohammad Ahsan 8 Lee Yong-dae 14 August 2014 9 November 2016 117 117 Yoo Yeon-seong 9 Goh V Shem 10 November 2016 15 March 2017 18 18 Tan Wee Kiong 10 Marcus Fernaldi Gideon 16 March 2017 5 April 2017 3 (3) Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo 11 Li Junhui 6 April 2017 12 April 2017 1 (1) Liu Yuchen Marcus Fernaldi Gideon 13 April 2017 14 June 2017 9 (12) Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo Mathias Boe 15 June 2017 21 June 2017 1 (63) Carsten Mogensen Li Junhui 22 June 2017 5 July 2017 2 (3) Liu Yuchen Mathias Boe 6 July 2017 12 July 2017 1 (64) Carsten Mogensen Li Junhui 13 July 2017 30 August 2017 7 10 Liu Yuchen Mathias Boe 31 August 2017 27 September 2017 4 68 Carsten Mogensen Marcus Fernaldi Gideon 28 September 2017 131 143 Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo

Weeks spent as top-ranked men's doubles shuttlers from 1990 to week 12 of 2020 (Note: There is a slight difference in total counts due to the nonsynchronous nature of unofficial unified ranking week count which began on 01/01/1990 and the official BWF World Ranking which began on 01/10/2009.) Weeks ranked world no. 1 men's doubles shuttlers by their nationality from 1990 to week 12 of 2020.

Women's doubles

#		Player	Date started	Date ended	Consecutive weeks	Total weeks
1		Zhao Tingting	1 October 2009	4 November 2009	5	5
		Zhang Yawen
2		Cheng Shu	5 November 2009	18 November 2009	2	2
		Zhao Yunlei
3		Du Jing	19 November 2009	25 November 2009	1	(1)
		Yu Yang
4		Ma Jin	26 November 2009	27 January 2010	9	(9)
		Wang Xiaoli
		Du Jing	28 January 2010	24 March 2010	8	9
		Yu Yang
		Ma Jin	25 March 2010	29 September 2010	27	36
		Wang Xiaoli
5		Cheng Wen-hsing	30 September 2010	27 April 2011	30	30
		Chien Yu-chin
6		Wang Xiaoli	28 April 2011	19 September 2012	73	(73)
		Yu Yang
7		Tian Qing	20 September 2012	13 March 2013	25	(25)
		Zhao Yunlei
		Wang Xiaoli	14 March 2013	28 May 2014	63	136
		Yu Yang
8		Bao Yixin	29 May 2014	29 October 2014	22	22
		Tang Jinhua
9		Misaki Matsutomo	30 October 2014	26 November 2014	4	(4)
		Ayaka Takahashi
		Tian Qing	27 November 2014	1 April 2015	18	43
		Zhao Yunlei
		Misaki Matsutomo	2 April 2015	16 December 2015	37	(41)
		Ayaka Takahashi
10		Luo Ying	17 December 2015	16 March 2016	13	13
		Luo Yu
		Misaki Matsutomo	17 March 2016	25 October 2017	84	(125)
		Ayaka Takahashi
11		Chen Qingchen	26 October 2017	8 November 2017	2	(2)
		Jia Yifan
		Misaki Matsutomo	9 November 2017	22 November 2017	2	127
		Ayaka Takahashi
		Chen Qingchen	23 November 2017	20 June 2018	30	(32)
		Jia Yifan
12		Yuki Fukushima	21 June 2018	4 July 2018	2	(2)
		Sayaka Hirota
		Chen Qingchen	5 July 2018	8 August 2018	5	(37)
		Jia Yifan
		Yuki Fukushima	9 August 2018	29 April 2019	38	(40)
		Sayaka Hirota
13		Mayu Matsumoto	30 April 2019	22 July 2019	12	(12)
		Wakana Nagahara
		Yuki Fukushima	23 July 2019	29 July 2019	1	(41)
		Sayaka Hirota
		Mayu Matsumoto	30 July 2019	11 November 2019	15	27
		Wakana Nagahara
		Yuki Fukushima	12 November 2019	18 November 2019	1	(42)
		Sayaka Hirota
		Chen Qingchen	19 November 2019	27 March 2020	18	55
		Jia Yifan
		Yuki Fukushima	2 February 2021		1	43
		Sayaka Hirota

Mixed doubles

#		Player	Date started	Date ended	Consecutive weeks	Total weeks
1		Lee Yong-dae	1 October 2009	20 January 2010	16	(16)
		Lee Hyo-jung
2		Zheng Bo	21 January 2010	10 March 2010	7	7
		Ma Jin
3		Nova Widianto	11 March 2010	24 March 2010	2	(2)
		Liliyana Natsir
		Lee Yong-dae	25 March 2010	21 April 2010	4	(20)
		Lee Hyo-jung
		Nova Widianto	22 April 2010	26 May 2010	5	(7)
		Liliyana Natsir
		Lee Yong-dae	27 May 2010	23 June 2010	4	24
		Lee Hyo-jung
4		Thomas Laybourn	24 June 2010	30 June 2010	1	(1)
		Kamilla Rytter Juhl
		Nova Widianto	1 July 2010	25 August 2010	8	(15)
		Liliyana Natsir
5		Robert Mateusiak	26 August 2010	1 September 2010	1	1
		Nadieżda Zięba
		Nova Widianto	2 September 2010	3 November 2010	9	24
		Liliyana Natsir
		Thomas Laybourn	4 November 2010	2 February 2011	13	14
		Kamilla Rytter Juhl
6		Zhang Nan	3 February 2011	15 August 2012	80	(80)
		Zhao Yunlei
7		Xu Chen	16 August 2012	18 September 2013	57	57
		Ma Jin
		Zhang Nan	19 September 2013	1 April 2015	80	(160)
		Zhao Yunlei
8		Joachim Fischer Nielsen	2 April 2015	8 April 2015	1	1
		Christinna Pedersen
		Zhang Nan	9 April 2015	21 September 2016	76	236
		Zhao Yunlei
9		Ko Sung-hyun	22 September 2016	21 December 2016	13	13
		Kim Ha-na
10		Zheng Siwei	22 December 2016	11 April 2018	68	(68)
		Chen Qingchen
11		Wang Yilü	12 April 2018	25 April 2018	2	(2)
		Huang Dongping
		Zheng Siwei	26 April 2018	2 May 2018	1	69
		Chen Qingchen
12		Tontowi Ahmad	3 May 2018	20 June 2018	7	(7)
		Liliyana Natsir
		Wang Yilü	21 June 2018	11 July 2018	3	5
		Huang Dongping
		Tontowi Ahmad	12 July 2018	8 August 2018	4	11
		Liliyana Natsir
13		Zheng Siwei	9 August 2018		86	86
		Huang Yaqiong

Players with highest career rank 2–5

Last update: 2 February 2021

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 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 Kamilla Rytter Juhl WD 24 October 2013 Christinna Pedersen Hiroyuki Endo MD 6 March 2014 Kenichi Hayakawa Jan Ø. Jørgensen MS 22 January 2015 Liu Cheng XD 26 November 2015 Bao Yixin Nitya Krishinda Maheswari WD 28 January 2016 Greysia Polii Tang Yuanting WD 14 April 2016 Yu Yang Fu Haifeng MD 25 August 2016 Zhang Nan Kim Gi-jung MD 22 September 2016 Kim Sa-rang Chai Biao MD 6 October 2016 Hong Wei Praveen Jordan XD 27 October 2016 Debby Susanto Jung Kyung-eun WD 10 November 2016 Shin Seung-chan Takeshi Kamura MD 26 January 2017 Keigo Sonoda Sung Ji-hyun WS 16 March 2017 P. V. Sindhu WS 7 April 2017 Lu Kai XD 13 April 2017 Huang Yaqiong Shi Yuqi MS 24 August 2017 Chang Ye-na WD 9 November 2017 Lee So-hee Liu Cheng MD 21 June 2018 Zhang Nan Tang Chun Man XD 21 June 2018 Tse Ying Suet Chou Tien-chen MS 6 August 2019 Dechapol Puavaranukroh XD 2 February 2021 Sapsiree Taerattanachai

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 Ko Sung-hyun MD 22 January 2015 Shin Baek-cheol Lee Sheng-mu MD 12 March 2015 Tsai Chia-hsin Zhang Nan XD 8 June 2017 Li Yinhui Greysia Polii WD 20 September 2018 Apriyani Rahayu Yuta Watanabe XD 22 November 2018 Arisa Higashino Anders Antonsen MS 12 November 2019 Anthony Sinisuka Ginting MS 18 February 2020 Lee Yang MD 2 February 2021 Wang Chi-lin

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 Hong Wei MD 17 January 2013 Shen Ye Hu Yun MS 30 May 2013 Jang Ye-na WD 14 August 2014 Kim So-young Liu Xiaolong MD 12 March 2015 Qiu Zihan Sun Yu WS 22 December 2016 Chris Adcock XD 24 August 2017 Gabby Adcock Shiho Tanaka WD 31 May 2018 Koharu Yonemoto Mads Conrad-Petersen MD 21 June 2018 Mads Pieler Kolding Chen Hung-ling MD 25 October 2018 Wang Chi-lin Mathias Christiansen XD 25 October 2018 Christinna Pedersen Hiroyuki Endo MD 5 March 2019 Yuta Watanabe Jonatan Christie MS 6 August 2019 Kim So-yeong WD 14 January 2020 Kong Hee-yong Lee So-hee WD 21 January 2020 Shin Seung-chan Praveen Jordan XD 17 March 2020 Melati Daeva Oktavianti

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 Yeon-ju 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 Reika Kakiiwa WD 17 April 2014 Miyuki Maeda Seo Seung-jae XD 17 May 2018 Kim Ha-na Kim Astrup MD 27 September 2018 Anders Skaarup Rasmussen Han Chengkai MD 9 April 2019 Zhou Haodong Fajar Alfian MD 16 April 2019 Muhammad Rian Ardianto Seo Seung-jae XD 24 September 2019 Chae Yoo-jung Du Yue WD 17 March 2020 Li Yinhui

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