Satwiksairaj and Chirag Shetty rise to career-high No. 5, HS Prannoy again to high 10 in badminton world rankings

Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty rose to No. 5 within the BWF Rankings for males’s doubles gamers whereas HS Prannoy was rewarded for his constant performances, shifting to No. 9 within the males’s singles charts.

New Delhi,UPDATED: Dec 20, 2022 19:13 IST

Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty gained 2 titles on the tour in 2022 (AP/PTI Photo)

By India Today Web Desk: Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty rose to a career-high No. 5 within the BWF World Rankings, up to date on Tuesday, December 20. The Indian males’s doubles pair was rewarded for constant performances within the 2022 season.

Satwik and Chirag gained titles on the India Open Super 500 and French Open Super 750. The younger pair had a breakthrough yr by way of main tournaments, a yr after agonizingly lacking out on a knockout berth on the Tokyo Olympics. Satwik and Chirag had been a part of the Thomas Cup successful group whereas in addition they gained the Commonwealth Games gold and a bronze within the World Championships.

Their unprecedented success is mirrored within the rating because the duo jumped two locations to the highest 5 with 75,806 score factors from 15 tournaments.

PRANNOY RETURNS TO TOP 10

Meanwhile, HS Prannoy returned to the highest 10, shifting to No. 9. Prannoy had began the yr at No. 26 however with constant performances, the 30-year-old established himself as a high performer on the tour in males’s singles.

Prannoy defeated Viktor Axelsen in an in any other case forgettable World Tour Finals marketing campaign earlier in December.

Prannoy didn’t win a title in 2022 however he has gained 31 out of the 46 matches contested this yr. Prannoy reached the ultimate of Prannoy reached the ultimate of Swiss Open and made it to the semi-final of the Indonesia Open and Malaysia Masters. He additionally reached the quarter-finals of BWF World Championships, shedding to China’s Zhao Jun Peng.

Prannoy was additionally an integral a part of India’s Thomas Cup-winning group.

Commonwealth Games champion Lakshya Sen continued to be the best-placed Indian at quantity seven whereas former world no. 1 Kidambi Srikanth gained a rung to the eleventh place.

Double Olympic medallist P V Sindhu continued to carry on to the quantity six place in ladies’s singles whereas the ladies’s doubles mixture of Gayatri Gopichand and Treesa Jolly, who had gained a bronze in Birmingham, climbed two locations to world quantity 18.

In blended doubles, Ishaan Bhatnagar and Tanisha Crasto additionally jumped three locations to achieve the twenty first spot. (With inputs from PTI)

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Dec 20, 2022