Indian double pair Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty slipped two rungs to third in the latest Badminton World Federation rankings. The pair was pulled out of their title defence at the Indonesia Open last week. Liang Wei Keng and Wang Chang from China are the new men's doubles No.1s followed by Denmark’s Kim Astrup and Anders Skaarup Rasmussen, who jumped two places.
The Chirag-Satwik duo's last victory was in the Thailand Open in May to reclaim the No.1 ranking but suffered a loss of form and made a first-round exit from the Singapore Open last month. The India duo were also pulled out of the ongoing Australian Open.
In men’s singles, HS Prannoy and Lakshya Sen remained inside top-15, maintaining their 10th and 14th positions respectively. Kidambi Srikanth dropped four places to be no.32, while Priyanshu Rajawat (No 34) and Kiran George (No 35, up by one place) were the next two Indians in the rankings.
HS Prannoy and Lakshay Sen remained world number 10 and 14 in the men's singles. PV Sindhu stayed at world number 12 in the women's category, and she is expected to go to the 2024 Paris Olympics with the same ranking.
In women's doubles, Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand have improved their ranking further and went up to World No. 24 after their giant-killing acts in recent tournaments. They have jumped six places from world number 30 in the last week of May. Olympic-bound Tanisha Crasto and Ashwini Ponnappa also went up a place to become the world number 19.Apart from HS Prannoy and Satwik-Chirag, it is unlikely that other Indian shuttlers will have seedings at the Paris Olympics. Prannoy also has to improve his ranking in the upcoming tournaments to be seeded at the Paris Olympics.
With PTI inputs
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