Lee Chong Wei is world number 2 now from the latest ranking. 1) Lin Dan - 44073.16 pts 2) Lee Chong Wei - 35505.32 pts 3) Bao ChunLai - 35100.89 pts 4) Kenneth Jonassen - 34708.40 pts 5) Taufik Hidayat - 33373.86 But after the China Open, Bao will up to 2nd.
No Bao will up to 2nd even lost in china open final. Because for runner-up of 5 stars tournament will earn 408 pts. And the points between Bao & Lee now is only 404.43 pts.
don't forget to minus away 4590 points from his China Open 2004(since the system only care about the result of the last 52 weeks). Therefore Bao has to win the title in order to be in No.2 spot, otherwise LCW will remain No.2.
4590 pts? I don't think that much. Here is the table I got from http://www.worldbadminton.net/Portal/desktopdefault.aspx?tabid=10&ItemID=17
You should look at this http://www.worldbadminton.net/Portal/documents/Amended%20points%20tables.doc for a 6* Winner - 5400 Runner up - 4590 3/4 - 3780 5/8 - 2970 9/16 - 2160 17/32 - 1350 33/64 - 540 65/128 - 270 129/256 - 108 257/512 - 54 513/1024 - 27
For the moment, LCW will remain #2. But by year-end, Bao will regain his #2 position. That is because LCW will also drop points from his Singapore Open and Taiwan Open exploits last year.
