Thomas Cup champion HS Prannoy caps off 2022 with career-high world rating

India’s Thomas Cup winner HS Prannoy completed with a profession excessive rating of world quantity 8 in 2022. Prannoy was rewarded for his consistency regardless of not profitable any particular person championsship.

New Delhi,UPDATED: Dec 27, 2022 21:33 IST

HS Prannoy finishes 2022 with career-high rating of world quantity 8

By India Today Web Desk: Thomas Cup champion HS Prannoy regained his career-best quantity eight place within the newest BWF world rankings issued on Tuesday, 27 December 2022.

The 30-year-old from Kerala, who has been in good kind this yr, had achieved the quantity eight rating in 2018 for the primary time earlier than slipping to 34 in 2019.

However, some memorable performances within the season, together with the Thomas Cup win, seven quarterfinals, two semifinals and a runner-up end on the Swiss Open, noticed him rise like a phoenix in 2022.

He could not win a person title however performed a pivotal function within the Indian workforce’s historic Thomas Cup win in Bangkok.

His consistency earned him a spot within the season-ending BWF World Tour Finals and a nomination for the BWF Player of the yr award.

Among others, Lakshya Sen remained static at world quantity seven, whereas Kidambi Srikanth misplaced a spot to be on the twelfth place.

Out of motion since her Commonwealth Games triumph, double Olympic medallist P V Sindhu slipped a spot to world quantity seven in girls’s singles, whereas Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty have been regular at quantity 5.

The fast-rising pairing of MR Arjun and Dhruv Kapila gained three locations to be world quantity 21, whereas girls’s doubles mixture of Gayatri Gopichand and Treesa Jolly, which had gained a bronze in Birmingham CWG, climbed a spot to world quantity 17.

Edited By:

Kingshuk Kusari

Published On:

Dec 27, 2022