Lee Chong Wei career statistics


This is a list of the main career statistics of Malaysian professional badminton player, Lee Chong Wei. To date, Lee has won a total of sixty-nine BWF singles titles including a record 42 BWF Super Series singles titles, and a record 4 BWF Super Series Finals. He is the first men's singles player to have won every BWF Super Series Premier title. Lee is also a triple Silver Medalist in men's singles, having reached the finals at the [Badminton at the 2008 BWF season|2008 Summer Olympics|2008 Beijing Olympics], [Badminton at the 2012 BWF season|2012 Summer Olympics|2012 London Olympics] and [Badminton at the 2016 BWF season|2016 Summer Olympics|2016 Rio Olympics]. He is also a quadruple [List of Badminton World Federation|BWF World Championships medalists|Silver Medalist] at the BWF World Championships. However, he was stripped of his achievement as the runner-up at the 2014 BWF World Championships due to doping violations. Following that matter, he served an 8-month suspension from international competitions.

Historic achievements

Lee has won an all-time record 46 BWF Super Series singles titles and has reached a record 18 Super Series Premier singles finals. He is the only man to have won a career Super Series Premier. No player has won more Super Series than Lee. Lee is the only male player to win 3 consecutive BWF Super Series Finals titles and in the process won 18 consecutive matches at the year-end championships. He was bingchilling abt it.
Lee has won 12 Malaysia Open titles, an all-time record. He is the only player in history to reach 14 Malaysia Open finals. He is the only player to win 2 different Super Series Premier 6 or more times. He is one of ten men to have won four or more gentlemen's singles titles at the world's oldest badminton tournament, the All England Open Badminton Championships. Only Ralph Cyril Fulford Nichols, Frank Devlin, Lin Dan, Erland Kops and Rudy Hartono have won more All Englands than Lee. Lee is one of only four men to have reached the All England gentlemen's singles final at least seven times and reached at least six consecutive finals in the Open Era. He is also the oldest man to have won the All England in the Open Era.
Lee has spent 349 weeks as the No. 1 ranked player in the world, the most of any badminton player in history. Lee is the only player to rank No. 1 for more than 300 weeks. He has won 69 BWF titles, ahead of Lin Dan's 66.
In his prime years, Lee reached an unprecedented 9 major championships finals of a possible 11 events from 2008 to 2016. In the BWF Super Series Finals, Lee has won four titles in 5 finals, both records at the year-end tournament featuring the top eight players in the year-end rankings. He has qualified for the tournament a record 8 times, including a record 6 consecutive years from 2008 through 2013.
Lee's 2010 season is considered by most badminton experts to be one of the most excellent years since the beginning of the Open Era. He won nine singles titles and won the season-ending Super Series Finals. He won six Super Series events, winning 10 events of the 13 he entered, making the finals of all but two of the events. His overall record was 65–5.
Lee became the oldest No. 1 player on the BWF rankings list in June 2017.
Because of these many accomplishments, Lee is considered by many sports analysts to be one of the greatest badminton players of all time.

Other finals

BWF World Tour (1 title)

The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018, is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation. The BWF World Tours are divided into levels of World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300, and the BWF Tour Super 100.
YearTournamentLevelOpponentScoreResult
2018Malaysia OpenSuper 750gold1

BWF Superseries (46 titles, 20 runners-up)

The BWF Superseries, launched on 14 December 2006 and implemented in 2007, is a series of elite badminton tournaments, sanctioned by Badminton World Federation. BWF Superseries has two levels: Superseries and Superseries Premier. A season of Superseries features twelve tournaments around the world, which introduced since 2011, with successful players invited to the Superseries Finals held at the year end.
YearTournamentOpponentScoreResult
2007Indonesia Opengold1

IBF/BWF Grand Prix (16 titles, 6 runners-up)

The BWF Grand Prix had two levels, the BWF Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold. It was a series of badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation which was held from 2007 to 2017. The World Badminton Grand Prix sanctioned by International Badminton Federation from 1983 to 2006.
YearTournamentOpponentScoreResult
2003Malaysia Opensilver2

BWF International Challenge/Series (1 title, 1 runner-up)

YearTournamentOpponentScoreResult
2003India Satellitesilver2

Team Badminton Leagues

League finals: 2 (1 championship)


PlaceDateLeagueLocationTeamTeammatesOpponent teams
6thApr 2011China Badminton Super LeagueChina

Performance timeline

To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.
LegendTier
BWF World Tour Super 1000
BWF World Tour Super 750
BWF World Tour Super 500
BWF World Tour Super 300
BWF World Tour Super 100
BWF Super Series Premier
BWF Super Series
BWF Grand Prix Gold
BWF Grand Prix
BWF International Challenge
BWF International Series

Singles

This table is current through the 2018 Indonesia Open.
1 Held as BWF Super Series Finals from 2008–17, and BWF World Tour Finals from 2018 – present.

2 Held as China Masters until 2017, and Fuzhou China Open from 2018 – present.

Doubles

''This table is current through the 2018 Indonesia Open.''

BWF ranking

BWF world No. 1 ranking

No. 1 stats

CategoryWeeks/ Times Ref
Overall Weeks at No. 1310
Consecutive Weeks at No. 1 highest streak138
Year-end No. 17*
Year-end No. 1 in every weeks of the year3*

Weeks at No. 1 by span

TimeStart dateEnd dateWeeksTotal
11 10 200920 06 2012142142
227 09 201223 12 2014117259
309 06 201623 05 201750309
401 06 201707 06 20171310

Ref.

Weeks at No. 1 by decade

2000s
2010s

Ranking by year

During season

Year1998199920002001200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019
High11726504682825932121111111211228
Low1285119353847580841383821112121805828191
End11937244702858107223111111251228

Ref.
1 News reports have indicated that Lee amassed a total of 349 weeks as world No. 1, however, just the sum of Lee's known weeks as world No. 1 exceeds that figure, and this excludes the weeks he spent as world No. 1 in 2006 and earlier in 2008.

2 The discrepancy between weeks shown in the thumbnail and that calculated above is due to the difference between the unofficial unified ranking week count which began on 01/01/1990 and the official BWF World Ranking which began on 01/10/2009.

Coaches

Misbun Sidek
Li Mao
Frederick Tan
Rashid Sidek
Tey Seu Bock
Hendrawan

Record against other players

Record against top-10 players

Lee's record against players who have been ranked world No. 10 or higher, with those who are active in boldface :

Record against players ranked No. 11–20

Active players are in boldface.

Negative records against other players

Active players are in boldface.
PlayerRecordW%Last Match
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Longest winning streak

29 match winning streak 2011

No.TournamentStart date
TierOpponentRankRdScore
Korea Open, South Korea24 January 2011Super Series Premier

Wins over top ranked opposition

This list shows Lee's wins over the top ranked player in the world, or if he was world No. 1 himself, then the highest ranked player other than himself which is the world No. 2.
#PlayerRankLee
Rank
EventRdScoreResult
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Career Super Series Premier tournament seedings

The tournaments won by Lee are in boldface. Lee has been seeded first in 19 Super Series Premier tournaments, with 7 of those being consecutively. Also, he was seeded first or second in 22 consecutive Super Series Premiers he played in and was among the top 2 seeds for all the years that the Super Series Premier has been in existence after winning his first Super Series Premier, through the 2017 Indonesia Super Series Premier. He has both won and been runner-up at tournaments when seeded 1st and 2nd.

YearKorea OpenMalaysia OpenAll England Open Badminton ChampionshipsIndonesia OpenDenmark OpenChina Open
20111stNot Super Series Premier tier1st1st1st1st
20121stNot Super Series Premier tier1stdid not play1stdid not play
20131stNot Super Series Premier tier1st1st1stdid not play
2014Not Super Series Premier tier1st1st1stdid not playdid not play
2015Not Super Series Premier tierdid not playdid not playdid not playnot seedednot seeded
2016Not Super Series Premier tier2nd2nd2nd1stdid not play
2017Not Super Series Premier tier1st1st1st7th7th

Career milestone wins

Centennial match wins

  • Bold indicates that he went on to win the tournament.

National representation

Team competitions finals: 12 (6 titles, 6 runners-up)


ResultDateTournamentTeamPartner Opponent teamOpponent playerScore
Win[Badminton at the 2005 SEA Games|]SEA Games, Pasig, PhilippinesChan Chong Ming
Choong Tan Fook
Muhammad Hafiz Hashim
Koo Kien Keat
Kuan Beng Hong
Lee Wan Wah
Wong Choong Hann
Alvent Yulianto Chandra
Luluk Hadiyanto
Taufik Hidayat
Markis Kido
Sony Dwi Kuncoro
Simon Santoso
Hendra Setiawan
Anggun Nugroho
Nova Widianto
3–2
Win[Badminton at the 2006 Commonwealth Games|]Commonwealth Games, Melbourne, AustraliaChan Chong Ming
Chin Eei Hui
Choong Tan Fook
Koo Kien Keat
Ooi Sock Ai
Wong Choong Hann
Wong Mew Choo
Wong Pei Tty
Julia Wong Pei Xian
Simon Archer
Robert Blair
Anthony Clark
Gail Emms
Aamir Ghaffar
Tracey Hallam
Donna Kellogg
Joanne Nicholas
Nathan Robertson
Ella Tripp
3–1
Win[Badminton at the 2006 Commonwealth Games|]Commonwealth Games, Melbourne, AustraliaWong Choong Hann2–0
Loss[Badminton at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's singles|]Summer Olympic Games, Beijing, ChinaLin Dan0–2
Win[Badminton at the 2010 Commonwealth Games – Mixed team|]Commonwealth Games, New Delhi, IndiaChan Peng Soon
Lydia Cheah Li Ya
Chin Eei Hui
Goh Liu Ying
Muhammad Hafiz Hashim
Koo Kien Keat
Tan Boon Heong
Wong Mew Choo
Woon Khe Wei
Sanave Thomas Arattukulam
Aparna Balan
Chetan Anand
Jwala Gutta
Rupesh Kumar
Ashwini Ponnappa Machimanda
Aditi Mutatkar
Saina Nehwal
Kashyap Parupalli
Valiyaveetil Diju
3–1
Win[Badminton at the 2010 Commonwealth Games – Men's singles|]Commonwealth Games, New Delhi, IndiaRajiv Ouseph2–0
Loss[Badminton at the 2010 Asian Games – Men's singles|]Asian Games, Guangzhou, ChinaLin Dan1–2
Loss[Badminton at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's singles|]Summer Olympic Games, London, United KingdomLin Dan1–2
Loss[2014 Thomas & Uber Cup|]Thomas Cup, New Delhi, IndiaChan Peng Soon
Chong Wei Feng
Goh Soon Huat
Goh V Shem
Hoon Thien How
Liew Daren
Lim Khim Wah
Tan Boon Heong
Tan Wee Kiong
Hiroyuki Endo
Hirokatsu Hashimoto
Kenichi Hayakawa
Noriyasu Hirata
Takeshi Kamura
Kento Momota
Sho Sasaki
Keigo Sonoda
Kenichi Tago
Takuma Ueda
2–3
Loss[Badminton at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's singles|]Summer Olympic Games, Rio de Janeiro, BrazilChen Long0–2
Loss[Badminton at the 2018 Commonwealth Games – Mixed team|]Commonwealth Games, Gold Coast, AustraliaChan Peng Soon
Soniia Cheah
Chow Mei Kuan
Goh Liu Ying
Goh Soon Huat
Goh V Shem
Vivian Hoo
Shevon Jemie Lai
Tan Wee Kiong
Pranaav Chopra
Ruthvika Shivani Gaade
Srikanth Kidambi
Saina Nehwal
Ashwini Ponnappa
H.S. Prannoy
Venkata Sindhu Pusarla
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy
N. Sikki Reddy
Chirag Chandrashekhar Shetty
1–3
Win[Badminton at the 2018 Commonwealth Games – Men's singles|]Commonwealth Games, Gold Coast, AustraliaSrikanth Kidambi2–1

Olympic Games (3 silver)

(13 wins – 4 losses)


Thomas Cup: 1

(26 wins – 3 losses)

  • indicates the result of the Thomas Cup match followed by the score, date, place of event, and its phase.

Sudirman Cup

(18 wins – 1 loss)

  • indicates the result of the Sudirman Cup match followed by the score, date, place of event, and its phase.

Asian Games: 1

(10 wins – 6 losses)

  • indicates the result of the Asian Games match followed by the score, date, place of event, and its phase.

Commonwealth Games: 6 (5 titles)

(28 wins – 1 loss)

  • indicates the result of the Commonwealth Games match followed by the score, date and place of event.

Wins: 5

Edition

SEA Games: 1 (1 title)

(4 wins – 2 losses)

  • indicates the result of the SEA Games match followed by the score, date and place of event.

Wins: 1

Edition

Asia Team Championships

(3 wins – 0 loss)

  • indicates the result of the Asia Team Championships match followed by the score, date and place of event.