Singapore shuttler Loh Kean Yew has once again reached new heights following his tour of competitions in Europe over the past month.
On Tuesday (8 Nov), the 25-year-old rose to his career-high of third in the Men’s Singles world ranking.
Source: Badmintonphoto on Facebook
The achievement wasn’t just a breakthrough in Loh’s career, but also one for the Singapore badminton scene, as no male player from the country has reached higher than 6th in the rankings.
As the Badminton World Federation (BWF) refreshed its world rankings on Tuesday (8 Nov), Loh ascended to third — up two places from his previous rank of fifth.
Source: BWF
According to the ranking table, Loh had accumulated 82,874 points across his 10 highest-scoring tournaments over the past 52 weeks.
Source: Loh Kean Yew on Facebook
This provided him with the extra points needed to leapfrog Taiwan veteran Chou Tien Chen.
However, Loh will seemingly have a harder time climbing further up the table.
Currently ranked second is his childhood friend and rival Lee Zii Jia, who has a nearly 10,000-point advantage over the Singaporean.
At the top of the table is Olympic Champion Viktor Axelsen, who’s sitting comfortably on the throne with 120,606 points.
The refreshed rankings came off the back of three consecutive competitions in Europe in which Loh competed. Here’s how he fared:
This is the first time that Loh has broken into the top three of the Men’s Singles world ranking.
The achievement is a significant one for the Singapore badminton scene as it also marks the first time a male shuttler has made the top three in the world.
According to Channel NewsAsia (CNA), the highest-ranked Singaporean shuttler before this was Ronald Susilo, who was sixth in the world in 2004.
Looking further back, two-time female Olympian Zarinah Abdullah was third in 1994.
We wish Loh all the best in his future competitions and hope he will continue doing Singapore proud on the court.
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Featured image adapted from Loh Kean Yew on Facebook.
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