Men’s single in one of the most loved event not only in badminton but also is a marquee event at big competitions, know the BWF male badminton ranking for 2022
Below here we take a look at the list of rankings of top 10 players in men’s single in the world right now.
BWF Badminton Ranking 2022: Rankings Of Top 10 2layers In Men’s Singles
| 1(—) |  | Viktor AXELSEN 116779pt(0) |  DEN |
| 2(—) |  | Kento MOMOTA 112210pt(0) |  JPN |
| 3(—) |  | Anders ANTONSEN 98300pt(0) | DEN |
| 4(—) |  | CHOU Tien Chen 92682pt(0) |  TPE |
| 5(—) |  | Anthony Sinisuka GINTING 87567pt(0) |  INA |
| 6(—) |  | CHEN Long 84400pt(0) |  CHN |
| 7(—) |  | LEE Zii Jia 78860pt(0) |  MAS |
| 8(—) |  | Jonatan CHRISTIE 77647pt(0) | INA |
| 9(—) |  | NG Ka Long Angus 69370pt(0) |  HKG |
| 10(—) |  | KIDAMBI Srikanth 69158pt(0) |  IND |
| 11(—) |  | Rasmus GEMKE 68203pt(0) | DEN |
| 12(—) |  | Kanta TSUNEYAMA
Advertisement 65485pt(0) | JPN |
| 13(—) |  | WANG Tzu Wei 65042pt(0) | TPE |
| 14(—) |  | SHI Yuqi SHI Yu Qi 64941pt(0) | CHN |
| 15(—) |  | Kean Yew LOH LOH Kean Yew 63964pt(0) |  SGP |
| 16(—) |  | LEE Cheuk Yiu 61910pt(0) | HKG |
| 17(—) |  | Lakshya SEN 61747pt(0) | IND |
| 18(—) |  | SAI PRANEETH B. 59276pt(0) | IND |
| 19(—) |  | Kenta NISHIMOTO 58243pt(0) | JPN |
| 20(—) |  | Kunlavut VITIDSARN 57192pt(0) |  |
1.) Victor Axelsen
Coming from Denmark, The 27 year old is the 2020, Tokyo Olympics gold medalist . The 2020 was not the first time when he stood tall at the podium but also in 2016, Rio Olympics he registered a bronze by defeating Lin Dan of China. Besides this he won gold at the men’s single event at the 2017 BWF World Championship.
2.) Kento Momota
The two time Asian Games Gold medalist is also a two time BWF World Championship gold Medalist. The Japanese registered his highest career ranking on 27th September 2018 and also has his name under Guinness Book of World Records for “The most badminton men’s singles titles in a season”.
3.) Anders Antonsen
The Danish started playing badminton just at the age of six years and at the 2015 Lubin European Junior Championship won the gold medal. Along with it he has 2 world championship medals namely silver and bronze out of which one he won just at the recent held one.
4.) Chou Tien Chen
The currently No.4 ranked achieved his highest ranking of World No.2 on August 6, 2019, the same year in which he was the runner up of Korea Open and Fuzhou Open both in which he was defeated by Kento Momota.
5.) Anthony Sinisuka Ginting
The Indonesian became the first Youth Olympian badminton medalist to win a medal at the Olympics. In the 2018, Asian Games held at Jakarta he won two medals silver and bronze in men’s team and men’s single respectively.
6.) Chen Long
The Chinese went on as No. 1 in the world ranking of Men’s single for for 76 weeks consecutively. He is regarded as one of the best players in badminton and has 3 Olympic medals gold at Rio Olympics, silver at Tokyo Olympics and Bronze at London Olympics respectively.
7.) Lee Zee Jia
The 23 year old from Malaysia is the 2019 South Asian Games Gold Medalist one year after winning his first BWF World Tour Finals title. He is also the 2021 All England Badminton Champion.
8.) Jonatan Christie
The current Asian Games gold medalist also has a established name in South East Asian Games too. The current World No. 8 has reached his highest career rank on August 6 2019 when he was just short of a podium position respectively ranked 4.
9.) NG Ka Long
The 1994 year Hong Kong born has so far registered more than 259 wins in his career and also has a World Junior Championship Gold medal in men’s double event. Moreover NG also has two Bronze medals collection of Asian Junior Championship in his collection.1
10.) Srikanth Kidambi
Coming from the famous Gopichand Badminton Academy of India and the former NO.1 in the world became the first ever Indian to reach to a men’s single final in the 2021 World Championship. Kidambi also holds three South Asian Games Gold medals with him.
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