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BWF World Junior Ranking

The BWF World Junior Ranking is the official ranking of the Badminton World Federation, introduced since January 2011. Players must be under 19 years of age to be eligible in the World Junior Rankings. Players will be removed from the World Junior Ranking once they have reached 19 years of age on 1 January. In doubles, players will be ranked as individuals and not as pairs.[1]

Points system

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Badminton Asia Confederation may select up to two tournaments to upgrade to European Junior Championships level and up to three tournaments to the upgraded Asian and European Tournaments level as stated in World Junior ranking table below. Badminton Europe can select up to three tournaments to upgrade to the upgraded Asian and European International Tournaments level. Points are awarded according to the following table:

Championships Winner Runner-up 3/4 5/8 9/16 17/32 33/64 65/128 129/256 257/512 513/1024
World Junior 6,000 5,100 4,200 3,300 2,400 1,500 600 300 120 60 30
Asian Junior 4,600 3,900 3,210 2,520 1,800 1,100 440 215
European Junior and Upgraded Asian International Tournaments 3,500 2,975 2,450 1,925 1,375 835 330 160 65 30 15
Upgraded Asian and European Junior International Tournaments 2,500 2,125 1,750 1,375 960 585 230 110 45 20 13
Asian and European International Tournaments 2,000 1,700 1,400 1,100 760 460 180 85 35 15 10
African, Pan American and Oceania Continental Junior 1,250 1,065 875 685 460 275 105 50 20 10 5
African, Pan American and Oceania Junior International Tournaments 850 710 585 460 300 175 65 30 10 5 3

Year-end number one players

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Year Men's Singles Women's Singles Men's Doubles Women's Doubles Mixed Doubles
2011   Viktor Axelsen   Ratchanok Intanon   Teo Ee Yi   Shin Seung-chan   Jim Middelburg
  Soraya de Visch Eijbergen
2012   Kento Momota   Nozomi Okuhara   Arya Maulana Aldiartama
  Edi Subaktiar 		  Edi Subaktiar
  Melati Daeva Oktaviani
2013   Wang Tzu-wei   Aya Ohori   Liu Yuchen
  Li Junhui 		  Chae Yoo-jung
  Kim Ji-won 		  Choi Sol-gyu
2014   Shi Yuqi   Akane Yamaguchi   Huang Kaixiang
  Zheng Siwei 		  Chen Qingchen
  Jia Yifan 		  Chen Qingchen
2015   Firman Abdul Kholik   He Bingjiao   Zheng Siwei   Chen Qingchen
  Zheng Siwei
2016   Kantaphon Wangcharoen   Chen Yufei   Zhou Haodong
  Han Chengkai 		  Nami Matsuyama   He Jiting
2017   Kunlavut Vitidsarn   Gregoria Mariska Tunjung   Kim Won-ho   Baek Ha-na   Kim Won-ho
2018   Kunlavut Vitidsarn   Wang Zhiyi   Di Zijian   Liu Xuanxuan   Liu Xuanxuan
2019   An Se-young   Di Zijian
  Wang Chang 		  Nita Violina Marwah
  Putri Syaikah 		  Feng Yanzhe
2020   Christo Popov   An Se-young   Mads Vestergaard   Zhou Xinru   Indah Cahya Sari Jamil
2021   Varun Kapur   Tasnim Mir   William Kryger Boe   Ania Setien
  Lucía Rodríguez 		  Lev Barinov
  Anastasiia Boiarun
2022   Alex Lanier   Anupama Upadhyaya   Nge Joo Jie
  Johann Prajogo 		  Meilysa Trias Puspita Sari
  Rachel Allessya Rose 		  Andjela Vitman
2023   Alwi Farhan   Tomoka Miyazaki   Aaron Tai   Nao Yamashita
  Mei Sudo 		  Huang Kexin
No. 1 during every week of the year

Number one ranked players

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The following is a list of players who have achieved the number one position since 29 December 2011 (current number one players are marked in bold):

Last update: 20 August 2024

NOTE: BWF has frozen the World Rankings from 17 March until 11 August 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The rankings updated occasionally, not every weeks.

Mixed doubles

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# Player Date started Date ended Consecutive
weeks		 Total
weeks
1   Jim Middelburg 29 December 2011 7 March 2012 10 (10)
2   Soraya de Visch Eijbergen 29 December 2011 7 March 2012 10 (10)
3   Line Kjaersfeldt 8 March 2012 14 March 2012 1 1
  Jim Middelburg 15 March 2012 9 May 2012 8 18
  Soraya de Visch Eijbergen 15 March 2012 9 May 2012 8 18
4   Alfian Eko Prasetya 10 May 2012 4 July 2012 8 8
5   Chow Mei Kuan 5 July 2012 11 July 2012 1 1
6   Chae Yoo-jung 12 July 2012 7 November 2012 17 17
7   Edi Subaktiar 8 November 2012 3 July 2013 34 34
8   Melati Daeva Oktavianti 8 November 2012 8 May 2013 26 26
9   Choi Sol-gyu 4 July 2013 1 January 2014 26 26
10   Huang Kaixiang 2 January 2014 5 November 2014 44 44
11   Chen Qingchen 2 January 2014 6 January 2016 105 105
12   Zheng Siwei 23 April 2015 6 January 2016 37 37
13   Du Yue 7 January 2016 27 January 2016 3 (3)
14   Apriyani Rahayu 28 January 2016 3 February 2016 1 1
  Du Yue 27 January 2016 14 December 2016 45 48
15   He Jiting 8 December 2016 4 January 2017 4 4
16   Rinov Rivaldy 5 January 2017 April 2017 15 15
17   Lee Yu-rim 20 April 2017 19 July 2017 13 13
18   Kim Won-ho 20 July 2017 3 January 2018 24 24
19   Siti Fadia Silva Ramadhanti 4 January 2018 7 March 2018 9 9
20   Rehan Naufal Kusharjanto 4 January 2018 7 March 2018 9 9
21   Liu Xuanxuan 8 March 2018 1 January 2019 43 43
22   Leo Rolly Carnando 2 January 2019 12 August 2019 32 32
23   Indah Cahya Sari Jamil 13 August 2019 16 December 2019 18 (18)
24   Feng Yanzhe 17 December 2019 6 January 2020 3 3
  Indah Cahya Sari Jamil 7 January 2020 31 December 2020 52 70
25   Lev Barinov 1 January 2021 31 December 2021 53 53
26   Anastasiia Boiarun 1 January 2021 31 December 2021 53 53
27   Egor Borisov 1 January 2022 3 January 2022 1 1
28   Sirada Roongpiboonsopit 4 January 2022 1 August 2022 30 30
29   Andjela Vitman 2 August 2022 13 March 2023 32 32
30   Huang Kexin 14 March 2023 25 September 2023 28 (28)
31   Zhu Yijun 26 September 2023 9 October 2023 2 2
  Huang Kexin 10 October 2023 1 January 2024 12 40
32   Zhang Jiahan 2 January 2024 8 July 2024 27 27
33   Bernadine Anindya Wardana 9 July 2024 12 August 2024 5 5
34   Lin Xiangyi 13 August 2024 1 1

References

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  1. ^ "Section 5.3.3.2 - World Junior Ranking System" (PDF). Badminton World Federation.
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