For China, the world’s strongest player, An Se Young (Samsung Life Insurance), has now become a figure who has a god-like aura.
China’s ‘NetEase’ reported on the 27th (Korean time) that Ahn Se-young, who won the World Championships, maintained his No. 1 ranking. 1 in the world and set a new world record for ranking points.
An Se-young won the women’s singles title at the World Championships held in New Delhi, India on the 23rd, achieving 14,500 ranking points.
In the world rankings for Week 35 of 2026 announced by BWF on the 25th, An Se-young rose to No. 1 for the 160th week of his career and for the 98th consecutive week with a total of 121,287 points.
The media reported, “An Se young, who reclaimed the world title lost a year ago, maintained her lead in the women’s singles world rankings and increased her highest singles record to 121,287 points,” adding, “What is even more surprising is that Ahn Se-young’s ranking points are all comprised of 10 major titles, including the World Championship, which is a rare record in singles badminton.”
“He continued, ‘With this win, An Se-young has set a new record for women’s singles ranking points. In 2019, Japanese star Kento Momota broke the previous record of 10 singles titles held by Lee Chong Wei (Malaysia) with 11 wins. However, some of the 11 titles Momota won that year came from the BWF 3rd division (Super 500).’
An Se Young has won 9 of her 10 singles titles. Another win was points earned from the Uber Cup (World Team Championship), a team event.”
Last year, he won a total of four Super 750 tournaments, including the Denmark Open and French Open, as well as this year’s India Open and Singapore Open. He also won two Super 1000 tournaments this year, including the Malaysia Open and India Open.
The Super 750 tournament awards 11,000 ranking points, while the Super 1000 tournament awards 12,000 points.
In addition, An Se-young achieved high scores by winning the World Tour Finals at the end of last year (14,000 points), the Asian Championship (12,000 points), the Uber Cup (12,787 points), and the World Championship (14,500 points) this year.
In response, the media praised him, stating that he “has a godlike aura.”
They added, “An Se young also won the China Masters (Super 750) last year, but because all his valid points reached 11,000, the points obtained in the China Masters were excluded. This shows how strong An Sei-young’s ability is.”
However, the media pointed out that Ahn Sei-young did not receive the highest score as he finished as runner-up at the All England Open and missed the China Open (both Super 1000) due to a recent injury.
In the final of this year’s All England Open, Ahn Sei-young lost to Wang Zhiyi (China, world No. 2) and finished as runner-up, and he withdrew from the China Open after the previous Japan Open (Super 750) due to injury.
The China Open tournament has a cash prize exceeding 2 million US dollars (approximately 2.7 billion KRW), and if the cash prize exceeds at least 500,000 US dollars (approximately 690.1 million KRW), the winner will receive 13,500 ranking points. The All England Open still awards 12,000 points. It is estimated that if Ahn Sei-young wins both tournaments, his total points will exceed 124,000 points.
However, An Se Young, who has set a new world record, proved how great her position is with this victory at the BWF World Championships.
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