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The women's singles tournament of the 2023 BWF World Championships took place from 21 to 27 August 2023 at the Royal Arena in Copenhagen. Akane Yamaguchi was the two-time defending champion, but lost to Carolina Marin in the semi-finals.
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.)
Nehwal reached a career high of world no. 3 in the women's singles badminton world rankings on 24 June 2010. She defended her Indonesia Open title in three tough games against Sayaka Sato, 21–19, 13–21, 21–11. This was her third Super Series title and her third successive title following wins at Indian and Singapore Open Super Series. [56]
Former top-ranked badminton player Saina Nehwal will miss the Tokyo Olympics after the Badminton World Federation froze the rankings on Friday and said there will be no more qualifying tournaments.
The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018, [20] is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). The BWF World Tours are divided into levels of World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300 (part of the HSBC World Tour), and the BWF Tour Super 100.
The women's singles tournament of the 2022 BWF World Championships took place from 22 to 28 August 2022 at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium in Tokyo. Defending champion Akane Yamaguchi defeated Chen Yu Fei, 21-12, 10-21, 21-14 to retain her title.
The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018, [20] is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). The BWF World Tours are divided into levels of World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300, and the BWF Tour Super 100. [21] Women's doubles
Reigning world champion, = PB: Jia Yifan 29 June 1997 (aged 26) 6th 17, 21, 22: G: Reigning world champion, = PB: Finalist Apriyani Rahayu 29 April 1998 (aged 25) Debut: 3rd 18, 19: B: Reigning Olympic champion, PB: Siti Fadia Silva Ramadhanti 16 November 2000 (aged 22) 3rd 22: 2R PB: Semi-finalist Zhang Shuxian