Ahn Se-young wins 11 international competitions this year
Ranked top in Super Smash
Ahn Se-young ranked 3rd, 6th, 8th, and 9th in the 2025 Women’s Singles Super Smash rankings. /Graphics=Reporter Jaehee Shim
[마이데일리 = 심재희 기자] ‘Technology is technology, power is power! Everything is world class!’
There are no weaknesses. She has been reborn as a true ‘Badminton Empress’, equipped with both technology and power. Ahn Se-young (23, Samsung Life Insurance) also took four top 10 positions in the ‘Super Smash’ category, which showed the fastest speed this year.
Ahn Se-young was named in the ‘2025 Super Smash Rankings Top 10’ announced by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) on the 25th (Korean time). Among the top 10 fastest smash times recorded in women’s singles competition this year, they ranked 3rd, 6th, 8th, and 9th. He proved that he has the world’s best skills not only in stable game management and sharp corner work, but also in power.
He ranked 3rd with a smash of 357.1 km/h. He followed Thailand’s Ratchanok Inthanon, who swept first and second place. Although it was slightly behind Inthanon, it was ranked the most in the top 10. It ranked 6th at 340.8 km/h, 8th at 337.1 km/h, and 9th at 336.0 km/h. By occupying four positions among the top 10, they proved that they are not inferior in power at all.
Seyoung Ahn. /Getty Images Korea
Seyoung Ahn. /Getty Images Korea
◆ 2025 Women’s Singles Super Smash Rankings
1st Ratchanok Inthanon (Thailand) 376.3 km/h
2nd Ratchanok Inthanon (Thailand) 362.8 km/h
3rd place Ahn Se-young (Korea) 357.1 km/h
4th Place Puturi Kusuma Wardani (Indonesia) 353.7 km/h
5th place Akane Yamaguchi (Japan) 342.8 km/h
6th place Ahn Se-young (Korea) 340.8 km/h
7th Place Puturi Kusuma Wardani (Indonesia) 340.7 km/h
8th place Ahn Se-young (Korea) 337.1 km/h
9th place Ahn Se-young (Korea) 336.0 km/h
10th place Tomoka Miyazaki (Japan) 334.0 km/h
Ahn Se-young continued the momentum of winning the women’s singles gold medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics and raised her momentum even more fiercely in 2025. He won 11 times in 15 international competitions this season. It was on par with the record for most wins in a season posted by Japan’s Kento Momota in 2019. He is on a roll, showing an unrivaled level of skill, strength, and stamina.
Reporter Shim Jae-hee kkamanom@mydaily.co.kr
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