The women's singles tournament of the
2018 BWF World Championships
The 2018 BWF World Championships was a badminton tournament which was held from 30 July to 5 August at Nanjing Youth Olympic Games Sports Park Arena in Nanjing, China.
Host city selection
Nanjing was the only bidder for 2018 edition of championsh ...
(
World Badminton Championships) took place from 30 July to 5 August.
Seeds
The seeding list is based on the
World Rankings
A ranking is a relationship between a set of items such that, for any two items, the first is either "ranked higher than", "ranked lower than" or "ranked equal to" the second.
In mathematics, this is known as a weak order or total preorder of o ...
from 12 July 2018.
''(quarterfinals)''
Akane Yamaguchi
is a Japanese badminton player who is the reigning two-time World Champion, winning gold in the women's singles at the 2021 and 2022 World Championships. She was on the winning Japanese team at the Asian Junior Championships in 2012 and won var ...
''(semifinals)''
P. V. Sindhu
Pusarla Venkata Sindhu (born 5 July 1995) is an Indian badminton player. Considered one of India's most successful sportspersons, Sindhu has won medals at various tournaments such as the Olympics and on the BWF circuit, including a gold at th ...
''(final)''
Ratchanok Intanon ''(third round)''
Chen Yufei
Chen Yufei (; born 1 March 1998) is a Chinese badminton player. She is the reigning Olympic champion. She won the girls' singles junior titles at the 2016 Asian and the World Junior Championships. At the same year, Chen clinched her first se ...
''(quarterfinals)''
He Bingjiao ''(semifinals)''
Carolina Marín (champion)
Nozomi Okuhara
is a Japanese badminton player. A former World's number 1 in the BWF rankings for the women's singles, she is well known for her speed, agility and endurance. She won a bronze at the 2016 Summer Olympics, and gold medal at the 2017 World Cha ...
''(quarterfinals)''
Sung Ji-hyun
Sung Ji-hyun (; born 29 July 1991) is a South Korean badminton player from Seoul. She is an Asian Championship gold medalist, a two-time Summer Universiade gold medalist, and a World Championship bronze medalist. She was also part of South Kore ...
''(third round)''
Saina Nehwal
Saina Nehwal (; born 17 March 1990) is an Indian professional badminton player. A former world no. 1, she has won 24 international titles, which includes ten Superseries titles. Although she reached the world's 2nd in 2009, it was only in 2015 ...
''(quarterfinals)''
Nitchaon Jindapol
Nitchaon Jindapol ( th, ณิชชาอร จินดาพล; born 31 March 1991) is a Thai badminton singles player. She was a member of the national women's team which finished as runners-up at the 2010 Asian Games. She graduated at the ...
''(third round)''
Zhang Beiwen
Beiwen Zhang (; born 12 July 1990) is a Chinese-born American badminton player who is a singles specialist.
Career
Zhang was born in China and moved to Singapore at the age of 13 in 2003 and played with the Singapore National Team until 2012. ...
''(third round)''
Michelle Li
Michelle Li (born November 3, 1991) is a Canadian badminton player from Markham, Ontario. Li is the 2014 Commonwealth Games champion and the first Canadian to win an individual gold medal in women's singles badminton at the Commonwealth Games. S ...
''(second round)''
Aya Ohori
is a Japanese badminton player from Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima Prefecture
Fukushima Prefecture (; ja, 福島県, Fukushima-ken, ) is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region of Honshu. Fukushima Prefecture has a population of 1,8 ...
''(second round)''
Sayaka Sato
is a Japanese badminton player. She competed for Japan at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Achievements
BWF World Junior Championships
''Girls' singles''
BWF Superseries
The BWF Superseries, launched on 14 December 2006 and implemented in 200 ...
''(third round)''
Cheung Ngan Yi
Cheung Ngan Yi (; born 27 April 1993) is a Hong Kong badminton player.
Career
Cheung participated in the 2011 BWF World Junior Championships, the 2015 Malaysia Super Series Premier Qualification and in the 2016 Vietnam Open Grand Prix. In 2 ...
''(second round)''
Draw
Finals
Top half
Section 1
Section 2
Bottom half
Section 3
Section 4
References
External links
Draw
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