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Top Ten Highest Paid Badminton Players in the World - 2022

Top Ten Highest Paid Badminton Players 2022

Badminton is a popular sport, which is the second most played sport in India after cricket. The game originated from the British rule in India. The game was invented by the British in India, it has a huge fan following in India. Badminton was developed during British India from the older games of shuttlecock and battledore. It is a European sport that was previously dominated by Denmark, but gradually it became more popular in Asia and more recently China began to dominate the sport, with Asia particularly dominated by China. BWF declared the top 10 highest paid badminton players in the world in December.
Badminton World Federation organizes several tournaments every year and by the end of the year, they release the list of highest prize money winners.

The game of badminton has different formats such as men's singles, doubles, women's singles, doubles and mixed doubles. Thus opening up space for many countries to regulate various badminton tournaments.

Badminton Tournament Prize Money

BWF has divided these tournaments into different hierarchies of categories similar to tennis.
Tournament CategoryPrize Money
BWF World ChampionshipsUSD$1,500,000
BWF World Tour FinalsUSD$1,000,000
Super Series PremierUSD$350,000
Super SeriesUSD$200,000

The Badminton World Federation (BWF) Super Series was a series of Grade 2 badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). It was launched on 14 December 2006 and implemented in 2007.
Since 2011, the Super Series consists of two levels of tournaments, the Super Series Premiere and the Super Series. One season of the Super Series consisted of twelve tournaments around the world, five of which were classified as Super Series Premieres.
The Super Series is a Grade 2 level tournament. Thus offering less prize money and seeing less star-studded performances.
The Superseries Premieres are 3 mega-events that take place in a year, similar to the Grand Slams in tennis and offer high prize money.
Every year players take part in these series and at the end of the year the top 8 ranked players get a chance to play in the BWF World Tour Finals. The winner emerges with the top-ranked player as the highest paid player.

The Badminton World Federation (BWF) calculates the prize money of the participants and releases the list of highest paid badminton players.

Top Ten Highest Paid Badminton Players in the World

#PlayerSalary Country
1Kento MomotaUSD$ 506,900Japan
2Chen Yu fieUSD$ 387,875China
3Tai Tzu YingUSD$ 307,700Taiwan
4Zheng Si WeiUSD$ 263,200China
5Huang Ya QiongUSD$ 263,200China
6Akane YamaguchiUSD$ 249,270Japan
7Marcus Fernaldi GideonUSD$ 245,320Indonesia
8Kevin Sanjaya SukamuljoUSD$ 245,000Indonesia
9Chou Tien ChenUSD$ 234,600Taiwan
10Chen Qing ChenUSD$ 216,100China

It is clear at what level Asia dominates the game. The list has all the top 10 players in the world from Asia and that too from only 4 countries. China emerged as the most influential country.

  • Kento Momota of Japan is the top earner in badminton, who is also the world No.
  • Chen Yu claimed the second spot in the overall rankings and is the highest-paid female badminton player in the world.
  • There is no Indian player in this list. ButPV Sindhu is the highest-paid badminton player in India with a net worth of $105,004.
    • Disclaimer: This above information is based on analysis, research and report issued by BWF.
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