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World rankings

The world rankings, list by list.

The world ranking of all five events as each list is published, with every move since the list before. Each name opens that player's record.

Number oneAn Se-young122,287 points
Biggest climbChen Su-yuUp 12 to 65
New on this listNoneThe same entries as the list before
This list5 Oct 2026481 entries, moves since 28 Sep 2026
1 – An Se-youngKOR 122,287 +1,000
2 – Wang ZhiyiCHN 103,989
3 – Akane YamaguchiJPN 103,576 +1,000
4 – Chen YufeiCHN 87,351 +700
5 – Ratchanok IntanonTHA 76,166 +1,560
6 – Putri Kusuma WardaniINA 71,603
7 – Tomoka MiyazakiJPN 71,456
8 – Han YueCHN 69,008
9 – Pornpawee ChochuwongTHA 66,927
10 ▲ 1 P. V. SindhuIND 65,951 +1,800
11 ▼ 1 Nozomi OkuharaJPN 64,160
12 – Kim Ga-eunKOR 59,041
13 – Line ChristophersenDEN 57,940
14 – Michelle LiCAN 55,327
15 – Mia BlichfeldtDEN 54,483
16 – Sim Yu-jinKOR 52,884
17 ▲ 2 Lin Hsiang-tiTPE 51,629 +2,280
18 ▼ 1 Chiu Pin-chianTPE 50,798
19 ▲ 5 Unnati HoodaIND 50,380 +3,300
20 ▼ 2 Pitchamon OpatniputhTHA 50,018
21 ▼ 1 Riko GunjiJPN 49,333
22 ▼ 1 Line KjærsfeldtDEN 49,173
23 ▼ 1 Hina AkechiJPN 47,540
24 ▼ 1 Busanan OngbamrungphanTHA 47,407
25 – Tanvi SharmaIND 46,595
26 – Huang Yu-hsunTPE 46,334
27 – Supanida KatethongTHA 44,632
28 – Letshanaa KarupathevanMAS 44,592
29 – Han QianxiCHN 43,821
30 ▲ 1 Nguyễn Thùy LinhVIE 43,760 +2,050
31 ▼ 1 Neslihan ArınTUR 42,649 −1,100
32 – Beiwen ZhangUSA 41,596
33 ▲ 1 Natsuki NidairaJPN 41,420
34 ▼ 1 Devika SihagIND 41,194 −280
35 – Kirsty GilmourSCO 40,550
36 – Kaloyana NalbantovaBUL 39,317
37 – Wong Ling ChingMAS 38,961
38 – Isharani BaruahIND 38,049
39 – Santhosh Ramraj Rakshitha Sree 37,097
40 – Amalie SchulzDEN 36,647 +50
41 – Ashmita ChalihaIND 36,390
42 – Polina BuhrovaUKR 35,774
43 – Sung Shuo-yunTPE 35,505
44 ▲ 5 Yvonne LiGER 34,921 +1,340
45 ▼ 1 Tung Ciou-tongTPE 34,770
46 ▲ 4 Yeo Jia MinSIN 34,463 +2,140
47 ▼ 1 Anmol KharbIND 34,410
48 ▼ 1 Malvika BansodIND 34,325
49 ▼ 1 Wen Yu ZhangCAN 33,879
50 ▼ 5 Rachel ChanCAN 33,397 −1,200

Full lists as the BWF publishes them are kept from 21 Sep 2026 on, weekly top lists from 28 Aug 2012, and the number ones below go back to October 2009.

World number ones

Every number one in women's singles since 2009

14 players have led the women's singles ranking since the computer ranking began on 1 October 2009, over 39 spells at the top.

Most weeks at number one

  1. 1Tai Tzu-yingTPE 214
  2. 2An Se-youngKORNow 165
  3. 3Li XueruiCHN 124
  4. 4Wang YihanCHN 116
  5. 5Akane YamaguchiJPN 74
  6. 6Carolina MarínESP 66
  7. 7Wang ShixianCHN 33
  8. 8Chen YufeiCHN 15
  9. 9Saina NehwalIND 14
  10. 10Wang XinCHN 14

Weeks in all, across every spell; a doubles player counts the weeks of each pair they led with.

Every spell, newest first

  1. 22 Oct 2024 to nowAn Se-young103 wk
  2. 8 Oct 2024 to 21 Oct 2024Chen Yufei2 wk
  3. 1 Aug 2023 to 7 Oct 2024An Se-young62 wk
  4. 6 Sep 2022 to 31 Jul 2023Akane Yamaguchi47 wk
  5. 30 Aug 2022 to 5 Sep 2022Tai Tzu-ying1 wk
  6. 3 May 2022 to 29 Aug 2022Akane Yamaguchi17 wk
  7. 17 Mar 2020 to 2 May 2022Tai Tzu-ying66 wk
  8. 17 Dec 2019 to 16 Mar 2020Chen Yufei13 wk
  9. 12 Nov 2019 to 16 Dec 2019Tai Tzu-ying5 wk
  10. 29 Oct 2019 to 11 Nov 2019Nozomi Okuhara2 wk
  11. 24 Sep 2019 to 28 Oct 2019Tai Tzu-ying5 wk
  12. 30 Jul 2019 to 23 Sep 2019Akane Yamaguchi8 wk