2021 BWF World Championships qualification

This is the list of entries of the 2021 BWF World Championships qualification.

This event holds men's singles and doubles, women's singles and doubles, and mixed doubles.

This event's total limit of eligibility players is 400 players, the following charts are the rules and the distribution.^[1]

	Men's singles	Women's singles	Men's doubles	Women's doubles	Mixed doubles	Total
Entry limits	64 players	48 players	96 players (48 pairs)	96 players (48 pairs)	96 players (48 pairs)	400 players

Players/pairs ranked on date eligible	Total number of players/pairs from any one Member Association in that event must not exceed
1 to 8	4
9 to 24	3
25 to 150	2

According to the phase 2 updated by BWF, the following table is the invitation results.^[2]

Rank	Nation / Player	Points	Eligibility		Note
1	Kento Momota	109,118	Y1	Japan (1)	BA highest ranked
2	Viktor Axelsen	103,786	Y2	Denmark (1)	BE highest ranked
3	Anders Antonsen	94,875	Y3	Denmark (2)
4	Chou Tien-chen	89,828	Y4	Chinese Taipei (1)
5	Anthony Sinisuka Ginting	86,232	Y5	Indonesia (1)
6	Chen Long	84,400		China	Decline participation
7	Jonatan Christie	74,770	Y6	Indonesia (2)
8	Lee Zii Jia	69,689	Y7	Malaysia (1)
9	Ng Ka Long	69,270	Y8	Hong Kong (1)
10	Shi Yuqi	64,941		China	Decline participation (on 5 November)
11	Wang Tzu-wei	63,793	Y9	Chinese Taipei (2)
12	Rasmus Gemke	61,070	Y10	Denmark (3)
13	Kanta Tsuneyama	59,285	Y11	Japan (2)
14	Srikanth Kidambi	56,499	Y12	India (1)
15	B. Sai Praneeth	56,467	Y13	India (2)
16	Kenta Nishimoto	54,233	Y14	Japan (3)
17	Lee Cheuk Yiu	53,961	Y15	Hong Kong (2)
18	Kantaphon Wangcharoen	53,571	Y16	Thailand (1)
19	Shesar Hiren Rhustavito	50,630	Y17	Indonesia (3)
20	Hans-Kristian Vittinghus	50,108	Y56	Denmark (4)	Reserve 1
21	Lin Dan	47,670		China	Retired
22	Jan Ø. Jørgensen	47,664		Denmark	Reserve 2, Retired
23	Mark Caljouw	46,819	Y18	Netherlands (1)
24	Lakshya Sen	46,597	Y19	India (3)
25	Kunlavut Vitidsarn	46,348	Y20	Thailand (2)
26	Sitthikom Thammasin	46,257	Y57	Thailand (3)	Reserve 3
27	Lu Guangzu	45,869	Y21	China (1)
28	Sameer Verma	45,319		India	Reserve 4, Decline participation
29	Huang Yuxiang	45,000		China	Reserve 5, Decline participation
30	Prannoy Kumar	43,535	Y58	India (4)	Reserve 6
31	Parupalli Kashyap	43,440		India	Reserve 7
32	Tommy Sugiarto	42,400	Y59	Indonesia (4)	Reserve 8
33	Toma Junior Popov	40,958	Y22	France (1)
34	Heo Kwang-hee	40,257	Y23	South Korea (1)
35	Liew Daren	40,250	Y24	Malaysia (2)
36	Sourabh Verma	40,169		India	Reserve 9
37	Brice Leverdez	40,004	Y25	France (2)
38	Khosit Phetpradab	39,793		Thailand	Reserve 10, Decline participation
39	Zhao Junpeng	37,395	Y60	China (2)	Reserve 11
40	Loh Kean Yew	37,224	Y26	Singapore (1)
41	Thomas Rouxel	37,137	Y61	France (3)	Reserve 12, Invited
42	Koki Watanabe	37,126	Y62	Japan (4)	Reserve 13
43	Brian Yang	36,688	Y27	Canada (1)	BPA highest ranked
44	Tanongsak Saensomboonsuk	36,460		Thailand	Reserve 14, Decline participation
45	Kevin Cordón	36,302	Y28	Guatemala (1)
46	Jason Ho-Shue	34,990	Y29	Canada (2)
47	Misha Zilberman	34,314	Y30	Israel (1)
48	Wong Wing Ki	34,050		Hong Kong	Reserve 15, Decline participation
49	Sun Feixiang	33,690		China	Reserve 16, Decline participation
50	Ygor Coelho	33,509	Y31	Brazil (1)
51	Toby Penty	33,289	Y32	England (1)
52	Pablo Abián	33,230	Y33	Spain (1)	Host nation presenter
53	Kodai Naraoka	32,787		Japan	Reserve 17
54	Suppanyu Avihingsanon	32,486		Thailand	Reserve 18, Decline participation
55	Nhat Nguyen	32,460	Y34	Ireland (1)
56	Subhankar Dey	31,995		India	Reserve 19
57	Felix Burestedt	31,411	Y35	Sweden (1)
58	Lee Dong-keun	30,835		South Korea	Decline participation
59	Max Weißkirchen	30,043	Y36	Germany (1)
60	Nguyễn Tiến Minh	28,955	Y37	Vietnam (1)
61	Ajay Jayaram	28,810		India	Reserve 20
62	Victor Svendsen	28,660		Denmark	Reserve 21
63	Luís Enrique Peñalver	28,660	Y38	Spain (2)	Host nation presenter
64	Chico Aura Dwi Wardoyo	27,370		Indonesia
65	Li Shifeng	27,340	Y63	China (3)	Reserve 22
66	Xiaodong Sheng	27,050		Canada	Reserve 23
67	Kalle Koljonen	26,822	Y39	Finland (1)
68	Son Wan-ho	26,635		South Korea	Decline participation
69	Lino Muñoz	26,339	Y40	Mexico (1)
70	Cheam June Wei	26,190	Y64	Malaysia (3)	Reserve 24
71	Christo Popov	25,347		France	Reserve 25
72	Mads Christophersen	25,150		Denmark
73	Sergey Sirant	24,984	Y41	Russia (1)
74	Soong Joo Ven	24,757		Malaysia
75	Ade Resky Dwicahyo	24,726	Y42	Azerbaijan (1)
76	Kai Schäfer	24,680	Y43	Germany (2)
77	Lin Yu-hsien	24,460		Chinese Taipei
78	Lucas Claerbout	23,974		France
79	Lucas Corvée	23,890		France
80	Lin Chun-yi	23,600		Chinese Taipei
81	B. R. Sankeerth	23,370		Canada
82	Vladimir Malkov	22,695	Y44	Russia (2)
83	Ditlev Jæger Holm	22,590		Denmark
84	Georges Paul	21,459		Mauritius	BCA highest ranked, Decline participation
85	Joran Kweekel	21,368	Y45	Netherlands (2)
86	Eetu Heino	21,110		Finland	Decline participation
87	Luka Wraber	21,018	Y46	Austria (1)
88	Timothy Lam	20,869	Y47	United States (1)
89	Iskandar Zulkarnain Zainuddin	20,660		Malaysia
90	Kim Bruun	20,630		Denmark
91	Ng Tze Yong	20,600		Malaysia
92	Arnaud Merklé	20,595		France
93	Raul Must	20,543		Estonia	Decline participation (on 20 October)
94	Abhinav Manota	20,507		New Zealand	BO highest ranked, Decline participation
95	Gergely Krausz	20,220		Hungary	Decline participation
96	Maxime Moreels	19,826	Y48	Belgium (1)
97	Chirag Sen	19,820		India
98	Lu Chia-hung	19,760		Chinese Taipei
99	Artem Pochtarov	19,625		Ukraine	Decline participation
100	Osleni Guerrero	19,150		Cuba	Decline participation
101	Kiran George	19,030		India
102	Ihsan Maulana Mustofa	18,998		Indonesia
103	Kazumasa Sakai	18,960		Japan
104	Soo Teck Zhi	18,940		Malaysia
105	Luis Montoya	18,874	Y49	Mexico (2)
106	Ikhsan Rumbay	18,590		Indonesia
107	Siril Verma	18,470		India
108	Hashiru Shimono	18,340		Japan
109	Howard Shu	18,285	Y50	United States (2)
110	Emre Lale	18,114	Y51	Turkey (1)
111	Ren Pengbo	17,970		China
112	Yu Igarashi	17,820		Japan
113	Minoru Koga	17,774		Japan
114	Takuma Obayashi	17,700		Japan
115	Kim Dong-hyun	17,370		South Korea
116	Niluka Karunaratne	17,270	Y52	Sri Lanka (1)
117	Job Castillo	17,207		Mexico
118	Michał Rogalski	17,031	Y53	Poland (1)
119	Yusuke Onodera	16,940		Japan
120	Anuoluwapo Juwon Opeyori	16,587	Y54	Nigeria (1)
121	Leong Jun Hao	16,024		Malaysia
122	Aidil Sholeh	15,980		Malaysia
123	Lee Chia-hao	15,690		Chinese Taipei
124	Tan Jia Wei	15,580		Malaysia
125	Mithun Manjunath	15,540		India
126	Alap Mishra	15,320		India
127	Alex Lane	15,128		England	Decline participation
128	Phạm Cao Cường	15,128		Vietnam	Decline participation
129	Siddharth Pratap Singh	15,050		India
130	Christian Kirchmayr	14,824		Switzerland	Decline participation
131	Bernardo Atilano	14,644	Y55	Portugal (1)
150+
180	Anthony Joe	10,414		Australia	Oceania continental place, Decline participation

According to the phase 2 updated by BWF, the following table is the invitation results.^[3]

Rank	Nation / Player	Points	Eligibility		Note
1	Tai Tzu-ying	107,875	Y1	Chinese Taipei (1)	BA highest ranked
2	Chen Yufei	101,065		China	Decline participation
3	Nozomi Okuhara	95,886	Y2	Japan (1)
4	Carolina Marín	95,800	Y3	Spain (1)	BE highest ranked, Host nation presenter
5	Akane Yamaguchi	88,000	Y4	Japan (2)
6	Ratchanok Intanon	82,685	Y5	Thailand (1)
7	P. V. Sindhu	82,434	Y6	India (1)
8	An Se-young	76,178	Y7	South Korea (1)
9	He Bingjiao	72,740	Y8	China (1)
10	Pornpawee Chochuwong	68,456	Y9	Thailand (2)
11	Michelle Li	67,550	Y10	Canada (1)	BPA highest ranked
12	Mia Blichfeldt	61,295	Y11	Denmark (1)
13	Busanan Ongbamrungphan	57,754	Y12	Thailand (3)
14	Beiwen Zhang	57,700		United States	Decline participation
15	Sayaka Takahashi	54,734	Y13	Japan (3)
16	Sung Ji-hyun	54,010		South Korea	Decline participation
17	Kim Ga-eun	51,293	Y14	South Korea (2)
18	Wang Zhiyi	50,640	Y15	China (2)
19	Saina Nehwal	49,257		India	Decline participation
20	Aya Ohori	48,699	Y43	Japan (4)	Reserve 1
21	Gregoria Mariska Tunjung	47,500	Y16	Indonesia (1)
22	Evgeniya Kosetskaya	47,290	Y17	Russia (1)
23	Yvonne Li	46,526	Y18	Germany (1)
24	Line Christophersen	45,275	Y19	Denmark (2)
25	Nitchaon Jindapol	44,677		Thailand	Reserve 2, Decline participation
26	Kirsty Gilmour	44,469	Y20	Scotland (1)
27	Han Yue	44,406	Y44	China (3)	Reserve 3
28	Cai Yanyan	43,193		China	Reserve 4
29	Neslihan Yiğit	42,763	Y21	Turkey (1)
30	Yeo Jia Min	42,695	Y22	Singapore (1)
31	Phittayaporn Chaiwan	41,752	Y45	Thailand (4)	Reserve 5
32	Cheung Ngan Yi	39,310	Y23	Hong Kong (1)
33	Supanida Katethong	39,230		Thailand	Reserve 6
34	Soniia Cheah Su Ya	39,131		Malaysia	Decline participation
35	Line Kjærsfeldt	39,120	Y46	Denmark (3)	Reserve 7
36	Iris Wang	38,580	Y24	United States (1)
37	Chen Xiaoxin	38,320		China	Reserve 8
38	Lianne Tan	37,296	Y25	Belgium (1)
39	Julie Dawall Jakobsen	35,536	Y47	Denmark (4)	Reserve 9
40	Fitriani	35,274		Indonesia	Decline participation
41	Qi Xuefei	34,860	Y26	France (1)
42	Ruselli Hartawan	34,720	Y27	Indonesia (2)
43	Pai Yu-po	34,051	Y28	Chinese Taipei (2)
44	Zhang Yiman	33,830	Y48	China (4)	Reserve 10
45	Porntip Buranaprasertsuk	33,830		Thailand	Reserve 11
46	Nguyễn Thùy Linh	31,506	Y29	Vietnam (1)
47	Sabrina Jaquet	30,769		Switzerland	Decline participation
48	Kim Hyo-min	30,490		South Korea	Reserve 12
49	Brittney Tam	30,418		Canada	Decline participation
50	Saena Kawakami	30,380		Japan	Reserve 13
51	Kristin Kuuba	30,159	Y30	Estonia (1)
52	Vũ Thị Trang	28,555	Y31	Vietnam (2)
53	Kisona Selvaduray	27,664	Y32	Malaysia (1)
54	Linda Zetchiri	27,412		Bulgaria	Reserve 14, Decline participation
55	Sim Yu-jin	27,396		South Korea	Reserve 15
56	Fabienne Deprez	26,922		Germany	Decline participation
57	Yip Pui Yin	26,550	Y33	Hong Kong (2)
58	Clara Azurmendi	26,309	Y34	Spain (2)	Host nation presenter
59	Ksenia Polikarpova	26,197	Y35	Israel (1)
60	Marie Batomene	26,006	Y36	France (2)
61	Natsuki Nidaira	25,720		Japan	Reserve 16
62	Crystal Pan	25,280		United States	Decline participation
63	Aliye Demirbağ	25,070	Y37	Turkey (2)
64	Jordan Hart	25,280		Poland	Not eligible
65	Natalia Perminova	24,692	Y38	Russia (2)
66	Martina Repiská	24,692	Y39	Slovakia (1)
67	Thet Htar Thuzar	24,200	Y40	Myanmar (1)
68	Soraya de Visch Eijbergen	23,596	Y41	Netherlands (1)
69	Chen Hsuan-yu	23,586	Y42	Australia (1)	BO highest ranked
70	Benyapa Aimsaard	23,480		Thailand	Reserve 17
71	Beatriz Corrales	23,183		Spain	Reserve 18
72	Fabiana Silva	23,130		Brazil	Decline participation
73	Sung Shuo-yun	22,720		Chinese Taipei	Reserve 19
74	Mariya Mitsova	22,608		Bulgaria	Reserve 20
75	Léonice Huet	22,580		France	Reserve 21
76	Yaëlle Hoyaux	22,020		France	Reserve 22
77	Laura Sárosi	21,981		Hungary	Reserve 23
78	Ji Shuting	21,860		China	Reserve 24
79	Chloe Birch	21,758		England	Reserve 25
80	Irina Amalie Andersen	21,530		Denmark	Reserve 26
81	Deng Xuan	21,360		Hong Kong	Reserve 27
82	Marija Ultina	21,031		Ukraine	Reserve 28
83	Chiang Ying-li	20,930		Chinese Taipei	Reserve 29
84	Airi Mikkelä	20,729		Finland	Reserve 30
85	Özge Bayrak	20,522		Turkey
86	Ayumi Mine	20,450		Japan
87	Hadia Hosny	20,331		Egypt	BCA highest ranked, Decline participation

According to the phase 2 updated by BWF, the following table is the invitation results.^[4]

Rank	Nation / Player	Points	Eligibility		Note
1	Marcus Fernaldi Gideon Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo	106,853	Y1	Indonesia (1)	BA highest ranked
2	Hendra Setiawan Mohammad Ahsan	101,957	Y2	Indonesia (2)
3	Lee Yang Wang Chi-lin	94,973	Y3	Chinese Taipei (1)
4	Li Junhui Liu Yuchen	87,330		China	Decline participation (on 5 November)
5	Hiroyuki Endo Yuta Watanabe	84,863		Japan	Hiroyuki Endo has retired Decline participation
6	Takeshi Kamura Keigo Sonoda	84,503		Japan	Both players retired Decline participation
7	Fajar Alfian Muhammad Rian Ardianto	72,894	Y4	Indonesia (3)
8	Aaron Chia Soh Wooi Yik	70,428	Y5	Malaysia (1)
9	Choi Sol-gyu Seo Seung-jae	67,260		South Korea	Decline participation (on 17 November)
10	Satwiksairaj Rankireddy Chirag Shetty	65,200	Y6	India (1)
11	Kim Astrup Anders Skaarup Rasmussen	64,809	Y7	Denmark (1)	BE highest ranked
12	Marcus Ellis Chris Langridge	63,304		England	Decline participation
13	Goh V Shem Tan Wee Kiong	61,430	Y8	Malaysia (2)
14	Vladimir Ivanov Ivan Sozonov	60,253	Y9	Russia (1)
15	Ong Yew Sin Teo Ee Yi	58,209	Y10	Malaysia (3)
16	Takuro Hoki Yugo Kobayashi	57,188	Y11	Japan (1)
17	Mark Lamsfuß Marvin Seidel	54,191	Y12	Germany (1)
18	Han Chengkai Zhou Haodong	54,107		China	Han Chengkai has retired Decline participation
19	Ben Lane Sean Vendy	53,986	Y13	England (1)
20	Liao Min-chun Su Ching-heng	49,026		Chinese Taipei	Decline participation
21	He Jiting Tan Qiang	48,860	Y14	China (1)
22	Huang Kaixiang Liu Cheng	48,520	Y15	China (2)
23	Lu Ching-yao Yang Po-han	47,913	Y16	Chinese Taipei (2)
24	Mathias Boe Mads Conrad-Petersen	47,629		Denmark	Decline participation
25	Ou Xuanyi Zhang Nan	46,520	Y39	China (3)	Reserve 1
26	Ko Sung-hyun Shin Baek-cheol	45,500		South Korea	Decline participation
27	Goh Sze Fei Nur Izzuddin	44,032	Y40	Malaysia (4)	Reserve 2
28	Akira Koga Taichi Saito	41,608	Y17	Japan (2)
29	Wahyu Nayaka Ade Yusuf Santoso	40,680		Indonesia	Decline participation
30	Lee Jhe-huei Yang Po-hsuan	40,650	Y41	Chinese Taipei (3)	Reserve 3
31	Takuto Inoue Yuki Kaneko	40,317		Japan	Reserve 4 Decline participation
32	Jason Ho-Shue Nyl Yakura	40,038		Canada	BPA highest ranked Decline participation
33	Kim Gi-jung Lee Yong-dae	39,320		South Korea	Decline participation
34	Jones Ralfy Jansen Peter Käsbauer	38,788		Germany	Decline participation
35	Phillip Chew Ryan Chew	38,648		United States	Decline participation
36	Manu Attri B. Sumeeth Reddy	36,969	Y18	India (2)
37	Alexander Dunn Adam Hall	36,430	Y19	Scotland
38	Leo Rolly Carnando Daniel Marthin	36,380	Y42	Indonesia (4)	Reserve 5
39	Christo Popov Toma Junior Popov	35,290	Y20	France (1)
40	Di Zijian Wang Chang	34,860	Y43	China (4)	Reserve 6
41	Jelle Maas Robin Tabeling	33,773		Netherlands
42	Muhammad Shohibul Fikri Bagas Maulana	33,540		Indonesia	Reserve 7
43	Kang Min-hyuk Kim Jae-hwan	32,400		South Korea	Reserve 8 Decline participation
44	Pramudya Kusumawardana Yeremia Rambitan	30,990		Indonesia	Reserve 9
45	Bodin Isara Maneepong Jongjit	30,607		Thailand	Decline participation (on 10 November)
46	Keiichiro Matsui Yoshinori Takeuchi	29,430	Y44	Japan (3)	Reserve 10
47	Arjun M.R. Dhruv Kapila	28,838	Y45	India (3)	Reserve 11
48	Mohamad Arif Abdul Latif Nur Mohd Azriyn Ayub	28,510		Malaysia	Reserve 12
49	Godwin Olofua Anuoluwapo Juwon Opeyori	28,463	Y21	Nigeria (1)	BCA highest ranked
50	Angga Pratama Ricky Karanda Suwardi	28,310		Indonesia	Reserve 13
51	Arjun M.R. Ramchandran Shlok	27,364		India	Reserve 14 Decline participation
52	Na Sung-seung Wang Chan	27,242		South Korea	Reserve 15 Decline participation
53	Daniel Lundgaard Mathias Thyrri	27,220	Y22	Denmark (2)
54	Kim Won-ho Park Kyung-hoon	26,710		South Korea	Reserve 16 Decline participation
55	Nipitphon Phuangphuapet Tanupat Viriyangkura	26,598		Thailand	Decline participation
56	Joel Eipe Rasmus Kjær	26,130	Y46	Denmark (3)	Reserve 17
57	Ruben Jille Ties van der Lecq	26,082	Y23	Netherlands (1)
58	Hiroki Okamura Masayuki Onodera	24,750	Y47	Japan (4)	Reserve 18
59	Eloi Adam Julien Maio	24,570		France	Decline participation
60	Bjarne Geiss Jan Colin Völker	24,359	Y24	Germany (2)
61	Mathias Bay-Smidt Lasse Mølhede	24,310		Denmark	Reserve 19
62	Mahiro Kaneko Yunosuke Kubota	23,910		Japan	Reserve 20
63	Koceila Mammeri Youcef Sabri Medel	23,479	Y25	Algeria (1)
64	Joshua Magee Paul Reynolds	23,271	Y26	Ireland (1)
65	Chooi Kah Ming Low Juan Shen	23,120		Malaysia
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