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Badminton World Ranks Released

Saturday, 7th June 2008 ~ Maggie ~ Link ~ Comments (0)

Badminton royalty Xie and Lin
Badminton royalty Xie and Lin
The International Badminton Federation's new global rankings are out, and China, unsurprisingly, dominates all categories. Lin Dan (林丹) and Xie Xingfang (谢杏芳), China's first couple of badminton, are, respectively, the top male and female players. China holds the top four spots in the women's game, with Lu Lan, Zhu Lin (朱琳) and Zhang Nin (张宁) in positions two through four. In the men's game, Malaysia's Lee Chong Wei is in second place behind Lin Dan and two Chinese men, Bao Chunlai (鲍春来) and Chen Jin (陈金), occupy third and fourth rank.

The top Chinese men's doubles team, Fu Haifeng and Cai Yun, are ranked third in the world. The top three women's doubles pairs are all Chinese (Yang Wei and Zhang Jiewen; Zhang Yawen and Wei Yili; Du Jing and Yu Yang).

China also has the world's second and third-ranked mixed doubles teams—Zheng Bo and Gao Ling; He Hanbin and Yu Yang.

Judging from the rankings, the strongest teams outside of China are Korea, Indonesia and Malaysia.

(A link to the International Badminton Federation's Web site was not included above because its Google search result comes up with warnings about the page causing problems to your computer. Here is a link to the Google results page.)

Image: Beijing 2008

Tags: badminton, Lin Dan, rankings, Xie Xingfang, Zhang Nin