ChenYufei

Chen Yufei has won 400 matches and lost 115 across her senior career, a badminton record built over a decade in women's singles rather than one brief surge. Fourth in the BWF rankings for the 2026 season, the Chinese right-hander sits close to the front of a field she has led before.

The climb peaked in December 2019, when the rankings listed her at number one, a height she has not matched since but has never dropped far from. Olympic gold followed in 2020, and Luo Yigang is the coach attached to her team. At 28, she is still competing at the sharp end of women's singles, a position her ranking for the current season confirms.