Viktor Axelsen Tops List Of 2023 Most Money Prize Winners

Viktor Axelsen topped the list of the most prize winners at the BWF World Tour 2023 (Instagram/@victoraxelsen).

JAKARTA The world number one men's singles badminton player, Viktor Axelsen, leads the list of the most prize winners at the BWF Tour in 2023.

Axelsen topped the list with a total prize of US$64,095 or equivalent to Rp9.9 billion. He got that amount thanks to the seven titles won throughout last year including the BWF World Tour Finals 2023.

In addition to the BWF World Tour Finals, Axelsen also won Malaysia Open, Indonesia Open, Japan Open, China Open, and Kumamoto Masters Japan.

Of all these tournaments, Axelsen's biggest prize money was the 2023 BWF World Tour Finals. At that event he brought home a prize of 200,000 US dollars after coming out as champion.

Axelsen outperformed South Korean women's singles, An Se-young, who collected a prize of US$628,020 or equivalent to Rp9.6 billion. An Se-young won eight BWF Tour titles and reached the semifinals at the BWF World Tour Finals 2023.

In this list, Axelsen is the only men's singles badminton player to be in the top 10. Meanwhile, the rest in the top 10 are dominated by women's singles.

Third on the list is Chen Yu Fei (469,220 US dollars), Tai Tzu Ying is fifth with 367,450 US dollars, and Akane Yamaguchi is sixth with a total prize of 358,690 US dollars.

Overall, the top 10 list is filled by players from the five categories. Seo Seung-jae, the men's doubles world champion and mixed doubles, managed to raise $375,455 to occupy fourth place.

Next, the women's doubles pair Chen Qingchen and Jia Yi Fan are in seventh place with a total prize of 351,734 US dollars each.

Then the world number one mixed doubles pair, Zheng Si Wei and Huang Yaqiong, were ninth with the prize value collected at 342,750 US dollars.