IMAGE: Satwiksairaj (*12*) and Chirag Shetty are the primary Indians after Dinesh Khanna to be topped champions on the 2023 Badminton Asia Championships. Photograph: BAI/Twitter
Star Indian males’s doubles pair of Satwiksairaj (*12*) and Chirag Shetty on Tuesday regained its career-best rating of world no. 5 following the title-wining run on the Badminton Asia Championship.
The 2022 World Championships bronze medallists pair broke a 58-year-old drought, changing into the primary Indians after Dinesh Khanna to be topped champions on the continental championships.
Satwik and Chirag, who had achieved the world quantity 5 rankings in December final 12 months, jumped one spot within the newest BWF rankings to regain the fifth place.
Satwik and Chirag had defeated Malaysian mixture of Ong Yew Sin and Teo Ee Yi 16-21, 21-17, 21-19 in a nail-biting last.
Another Indian pair of Dhruv Kapila and MR Arjun too zoomed 4 spots to be ranked twenty third within the world.
In males’s singles, HS Prannoy was regular on the ninth spot, whereas Kidambi Srikanth and Lakshya Sen moved one place up to twenty second and twenty third respectively. Mithun Manjunath jumped 5 positions to be world no. 41.
In the ladies’s singles, PV Sindhu slipped to world no. 12, whereas Tanya Hemanth improved to fifty fifth spot.
Women’s doubles pair of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand climbed two spots to attain world no. 17.
