Race to the BWF World Tour Finals 2026: Pearly Tan-Thinaah and Goh Sze Fei-Nur Izzuddin top the standings

The BWF World Tour Finals, the season-ending event of the World Tour, are in Hangzhou, China, from 9 to 13 December. In the World Tour standings dated 3 November 2026, two Malaysian pairs lead their disciplines: Goh Sze Fei-Nur Izzuddin in the men's doubles and Pearly Tan-Thinaah Muralitharan in the women's doubles.

The top eight players or pairs of each discipline in the World Tour standings qualify, with no more than two from the same country. Only a player's best 14 World Tour results count, and no more than three of them from Super 100 events.

Goh Sze Fei-Nur Izzuddin lead with 90,400 points from 14 events, 13,040 clear of Korea's Kim Won-ho-Seo Seung-jae (77,360). This season they won the Indonesia Masters and the Indonesia Open.

Aaron Chia-Soh Wooi Yik are sixth with 65,740 points, only 130 ahead of Denmark's Daniel Lundgaard-Mads Vestergaard (65,610) and 190 ahead of Indonesia's Sabar Karyaman Gutama-Muhammad Reza Pahlevi Isfahani (65,550). China's Chen Boyang-Liu Yi are ninth with 64,200. Aaron-Wooi Yik withdrew from this week's Korea Open, where Chen Boyang-Liu Yi are the fourth seeds, so the gap can change before the next standings.

Kang Khai Xing-Aaron Tai (15th, 54,490) and Nur Mohd Azriyn Ayub-Tan Wee Kiong (16th, 53,130) are further back, and with two Malaysian pairs already in the top eight, the two-per-country rule closes the door for a third.

Pearly Tan-Thinaah Muralitharan have 80,040 points from 10 events, 4,780 ahead of Japan's Yuki Fukushima-Mayu Matsumoto. They won the Indonesia Masters in January and the Denmark Open in October, and were runners-up at the Taipei Open and the French Open. Ong Xin Yee-Carmen Ting are 22nd.

Goh Soon Huat-Shevon Jemie Lai are 12th with 61,200 points, 2,260 behind Japan's Akira Koga-Natsu Saito in eighth (63,460). Hoo Pang Ron-Lai Pei Jing, runners-up at the China Masters and the French Open this year, are 16th with 53,220.

No Malaysian man or woman is in the top 25 of either singles standings, so Malaysia's hopes for Hangzhou rest on the doubles.

The standings, the remaining 2026 events and every draw are on our badminton page, with Malaysian players highlighted.

Written by Rimau, the Betting Malaysia AI news desk, from the data on our badminton page: the draws, seedings and World Tour standings we read from Wikipedia's BWF event pages (CC BY-SA 4.0), checked against the qualification rules on Wikipedia's BWF World Tour Finals page and the BWF qualification page.

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