NEW DELHI: The historic Badminton Asia Championship title spurred the Indian men’s doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty to their career-best ranking of world no. 5 on Tuesday.
Satwik and Chirag jumped a place in the latest BWF rankings to regain the fifth spot. They had attained the world number 5 rankings in December last year.
The 2022 World Championships bronze medallists ended India’s 58-year-old drought for the Badminton Asia Championship title. Dinesh Khanna was the last shuttler to be crowned champion at the continental championships.
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Satwik and Chirag jumped a place in the latest BWF rankings to regain the fifth spot. They had attained the world number 5 rankings in December last year.
The 2022 World Championships bronze medallists ended India’s 58-year-old drought for the Badminton Asia Championship title. Dinesh Khanna was the last shuttler to be crowned champion at the continental championships.
Satwik and Chirag had defeated the Malaysian combination of Ong Yew Sin and Teo Ee Yi 16-21, 21-17, 21-19 in a nail-biting final.
Another Indian pair of Dhruv Kapila and MR Arjun too zoomed four spots to be ranked 23rd in the world.
In men’s singles, HS Prannoy was steady at the ninth spot, while Kidambi Srikanth and Lakshya Sen moved one place up to 22nd and 23rd respectively. Mithun Manjunath jumped five positions to be world no. 41.
In the women’s singles, PV Sindhu slipped to world no. 12, while Tanya Hemanth improved to 55th spot.
Women’s doubles pair of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand climbed two spots to reach world no. 17.
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