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The only player to have won at least one title in every season of the circuit is Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia, who is also the all-time record holder of number of Super Series titles won at 46. The record for the most number of tournaments won in a single calendar year is held by Kento Momota of Japan who won an unprecedented ten titles in the ...
Lin Dan (Chinese: 林丹; born 14 October 1983) [1] is a Chinese badminton player. He is a two-time Olympic gold medallist, five-time World champion, two-time World Cup champion, two-time Asian games gold medalist, four-time Asian Champion, as well as a six-time All England champion.
Axelsen, with a record of 4–3, is the only top twenty player to hold a winning record against Lin Dan, head-to-head. [31] Axelsen followed up his victory in Glasgow by winning the finals of the Japan Open tournament in Tokyo over Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia in three sets on 23 September, propelling him to the top of the BWF World Rankings. [32]
The mixed doubles badminton tournament started in the 1996 Summer Olympics. [2] The Badminton World Federation (BWF) rankings are used to determine the qualification of the players for the tournament. Nations can enter a maximum of two players each in the men's and women's singles if both are ranked in the world's top 16; otherwise, one quota ...
Year Male Player Female Player Ref 1998 Peter Gade — [1]1999 — Camilla Martin: 2000 Candra Wijaya — 2001 — Gao Ling: 2002 Kim Dong-moon — 2003
Pusarla Venkata Sindhu (born 5 July 1995), popularly known as PV Sindhu, is an Indian badminton player. [6] Considered as one of India's most successful athletes, Sindhu has won medals at various tournaments such as the Olympic Games, the World Tour, and the World Championships.
P.V. Sindhu became the first Indian player to win the gold medal at the World Championships and also became the only other woman singles player along with China's Zhang Ning to have won five World Championship medals. [6] Japanese Kento Momota, and the duo Mayu Matsumoto and Wakana Nagahara retained their titles from the previous edition.
Nettasinghe was ranked 773rd in the world by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) in 2022, but had jumped to 150th by March 2023. [2] He won another bronze medal at the Uganda Challenge early in 2023 and received the honor of "Most Outstanding Badminton Player" at the Sri Lankan national school sports awards ceremony in March that year. [2]