Jayce
Starting from next week’s China Badminton Super 1000 tournament in Changzhou, the Badminton World Federation (BWF) will officially increase the world ranking points for the World Tour, giving players from various countries/regions extra motivation with the “more generous” points.
The China Open, held from September 17 to 22, will be the first tournament to debut under the new BWF world ranking points system. This event, with an impressive total prize pool of $2 million, will be the first to implement the revised world ranking points system by the BWF.
The new world ranking points system aims to create a fairer correlation between Super 1000 event prize money and ranking points.
The $2 million prize pool of the China Open exceeds the BWF’s minimum requirement of $1.3 million for Super 1000 events, with an additional $700,000. This increase in prize money also means the points awarded for the tournament will be significantly boosted.
Under the new world ranking points system, for Super 1000 events with at least an additional $500,000 in prize money, the champion will now receive 13,500 points (previously 12,000), the runner-up will receive 11,500 points (previously 10,200), semifinalists will get 9,500 points (previously 8,400), and quarterfinalists will earn 7,400 points (previously 6,600).
Although the Indonesia Open in June is also a Super 1000 event, its prize pool meets the minimum requirement of $1.3 million, so its world ranking points remain unchanged. The other two Super 1000 events are the Malaysia Open in January and the All England Open in March.
