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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.)
The ranking stated are based on the BWF World Ranking date on 8 February 2022 as per tournament's prospectus. [2] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic , Chinese Taipei and Thailand have withdrawn from the tournament, and Singapore subsequently withdrew from the tournament after 3 players in the team recently recovered from COVID-19 .
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.
This page lists all badminton players who have won titles in BWF Super Series, BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix, and BWF World Tour events since the implementation of the circuit in 2007. This list is not provided by the Badminton World Federation (BWF), but by referring to the winners lists of the previous seasons.
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.
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
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.