JAKARTA - The Badminton World Federation (BWF) has released a list of 25 badminton players with the most income from tournaments throughout 2022. This data was taken from the beginning of the 2022 season to July 18 yesterday.

In the list, there are three representatives of Indonesia who are included in it. Fajar Alfian/Muhammad Rian Ardianto became Indonesian athletes who won the most prizes.

Fajar/Rian have so far pocketed a prize of US$65,630 (approximately Rp987 million). They have participated in 12 tournaments included in the BWF calendar, including the Thomas Cup and the Asian Championships.

The pair, ranked fifth in the world, won three of the 12 tournaments they participated in. Each at the Super 300 Swiss Open, Super 500 Daihatsu Indonesia Masters, and Super 500 Perodua Malaysia Masters.

In addition, they also finished runners-up at the Super 500 Korea Open, Super 500 Thailand Open, Super 750 Petronas Malaysia Open, and finally the Super 500 Singapore Open.

This achievement made Fajar/Rian's prize coffers increase to become the men's doubles with the highest income in 2022.

Meanwhile, another Indonesian men's doubles, Bagas Maulana/Muhammad Shohibul Fikri was in second place with 43,894 US dollars (around Rp. 660 million).

Meanwhile, if taken as a whole from the list of 25 badminton players with the most prizes, Fajar/Rian is in 11th position, while Bagas/Fikri is in 23rd place.

Indonesia also has one other name included in the list, namely, the men's singles by Jonatan Christie by pocketing US$46,360 (approximately Rp697 million).

While the top of the list is the men's singles from Denmark Vixtor Axelsen with 232,750 US dollars (approximately IDR 3.5 billion).

The following is a list of the 25 badminton players with the highest number of prizes throughout the 2022 season released by the BWF as reported by Antara:

1. Viktor Axelsen (men's singles/Denmark) - $232,750

2. Tai Tzu Ying (women's singles/Taiwan) - 140,300

3. Huang Ya Qiong (mixed doubles/China) - 127,180

4. Chen Yu Fei (women's singles/China) - 123,050

5. Zheng Si Wei (mixed doubles/China) - 119,687

6. Nami Matsuyama/Chiharu Shida (women's doubles/Japan) 103,894

7. An Se Young (women's singles/South Korea) - 103.105

8. Akane Yamaguchi (women's singles/Japan) - 82,225

9, Lakshya Sen (men's singles/India) - 75,460

10. Ratchanok Intanon (women's singles/Thailand) - 75,150

11. Fajar Alfian/Muhammad Rian Ardianto (men's doubles/Indonesia) - 65,630

12. Lee Zii Jia (men's singles/Malaysia) - 64,595

13. Yuta Watanabe/Arisa Higashino (mixed doubles) - 62,162

14. Wang Zhi Yi (women's singles) - 57,640

15. He Bing Jiao (women's singles/China) - 57,355

16. Liu Yu Chen (men's doubles/China) - 55,649

17. Ou Xuan Yi (men and mixed doubles/China) - 54,024

18. Pusarla V Sindhu (women's singles/India) - 53,852

19. Busanan Ongbamrungphan (women's singles/Thailand) - 49,785

20. Yugo Kobayashi/Takuro Hockey (men's doubles/Japan) - 48,027

21. Zhao Jun Peng (men's singles/China) - 46,975

22. Jonathan Christie (men's singles/Indonesia) - 46,360

23. Bagas Maulana/Muhammad Shohibul Fikri (men's doubles/Indonesia) - 43,894

24. Jia Yi Fan/Chen Qing Chen (women's doubles/China) - 43,214

25. Wang Yi Lyu/Huang Dong Ping (mixed doubles/China) - 43,202


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