JAKARTA Putri Kusuma Wardani has officially moved up to seventh in the world to become the number one women's singles in Indonesia to replace her senior Gregoria Mariska Tunjung.
The International Badminton Federation (BWF) officially released its latest ranking on Tuesday, September 2, 2025. Putri also went up two positions to lead Gregoria who went down one ladder, right behind her junior.
The 23-year-old badminton player has his place now after reaching the semifinals at the 2025 BWF World Championships (BWF World Championships 2025) in Paris, France.
This achievement made Putri entitled to bring home a bronze medal, denying the drought of the Indonesian women's singles medal since Lindaweni Fanetri won bronze in the 2015 edition at Istora Senayan, Jakarta.
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Putri is the only Indonesian representative who can enter the semifinals of the 2025 BWF World Championships. Unfortunately, he lost against Akane Yamaguchi who then came out as a champion to win his third title in this tournament.
Akane previously climbed the highest podium in the tournament in the 2021 and 2022 editions. On those two occasions, he defeated Tai Tzu-ying and Chen Yufei.
On the way to the semifinals, Putri was recorded as defeating names such as Tomoka Miyazaki, eighth seed to Japan, and former world champion from India, Pusarla V. Sindhu.
The Tangerang-born badminton player has the right to rank seventh in the world with a collection of 69,200 points. Gregoria in the eighth position in the world has 68,360 points.
The top position is still held by An Se-young, who also brought home bronze from Paris. He was followed by Chinese duo Wang Zhi Yi and Han Yue, who were successively in second and third place.
Akane Yamaguchi followed the three names in fourth place. The Japanese badminton player moved up one position to shift the former world number one from China, Chen Yifei.
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