1. Kento Momota
Momota will be the World's No.1 heading into the Tokyo Olympics.
The current World No.1 shuttler is no scrub. The Japanese badminton star has won nearly all of the accolades that he had the opportunity to compete for. He started with Asian and World Junior Championships bronze medals in 2011 before upgrading to gold in 2012. Since then, he has ruled the Asian stage, winning the Asian Championships twice in both 2018 and 2019.
On the world stage, he was as fearsome as ever. He started by winning a bronze at the 2015 tournament in Jakarta when he was 21-years- old. It took him three years, but he made another Asian and World double in 2018 in Nanjing. When he beat Shi Yuqi to his first World Championship gold, he repeated the feat a year later in Basel, this time overpowering Anders Antonsen in an easy outing. Momota’s next challenge is simple – win the Tokyo Olympics gold on home soil. He is one of the top favorites and will be looking to make it count this time around.
2. Viktor Axelsen
The Danish badminton star has gradually driven himself to the highest point of the badminton rankings. The 27-year-old is one of only a handful few returning medalists in Tokyo for badminton, having won the bronze award in Rio. He will intend to get the Olympic crown and add it to his rundown of shrubs at the 2020 Olympics.
Axelsen said something at the 2010 World Junior Championships when he won the title and turned into the main European player to do as such. He has since remained consistent with his latent capacity, winning various titles. The World No. 2 won gold at the 2017 World Championships, just as the 2016 and 2018 European Championships. He is one of the decoration tops picks in Tokyo and hopes to continue his contention with Long and Momota.
3. Chen Long
The supreme gold medalist was one of the highest level parts in badminton singles, possessing the World No. 1 spot from December 2014 to June 2016 for 76 continuous weeks. Beginning his vocation in 2007, the Chinese expert won the Asian and World Junior Championships around the same time. He then, at that point, facilitated a gold award in the men's group occasion at the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games. He won the 2014 and 2015 World Championships in the wake of asserting bronze at the London Olympics.
In Rio, the world paid heed when he beat his opponent Victor Axelsen in the semi-finals and continued to the finals to confront Lee Chong Wei, who was hoping to win his first Olympics gold award. Since a long time ago, they outlived the Malay shuttler and won the gold. The 32-year-old has since relapsed by all accounts, overseeing two bronzes at the 2017 and 2018 World Championships. At present, no. 6, he will be hoping to make it two out of two at the Tokyo Olympics.
4. Anders Antonsen
Antonsen will be searching for magnificence at Tokyo Olympics.
Antonsen's first significant triumph came at the 2015 European Junior Championships. The Danish player has since driven himself to be a significant figure in badminton globally. He won the silver decoration at the 2017 European Championships, which he moved up to a bar of gold in the 2021 competition. He likewise won the silver decoration at the 2019 World Championships, tumbling to the current World No. 1 Kento Momota in an uneven last in Basel.
World No. 3 will probably stay in the higher echelons of the badminton world, and it is intriguing to perceive how his contention with the others works out at the Tokyo Olympics.
5. Chou Tien-Chen
Chou Tien-Chen became well known in the wake of securing the Chinese Taipei Open singles title in 2016. He turned into the first neighborhood shuttler to do as such in quite a while. The 31-year-old has won six BWF World Tour titles and completed as a sprinter up in six more from 2018 to 2020.
He is a consistent presence in the last stages in practically all badminton competitions and won silver at the 2018 Asian Games. He followed that with a third-place finish at the 2019 Asian Championships in Wuhan.
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