The star Indian badminton men's doubles pairing of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty rose to their career-best position in the latest BWF Rankings announced on June 20 (Tuesday). The Indian men's pair secured the country's maiden 1000 event title on Sunday by beating reigning world champions Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik of Malaysia in the Indonesia Open. As a result, the duo jumped to the third place in BWF Rankings.
Satwik and Chirag have been in ominous form this year as the duo has secured victories in multiple events. The Commonwealth Games Gold medallists have put Indian badminton's men's doubles on the world map after consistently improving their performances over the years.
In men's singles, Kidambi Srikanth climbed three places to get into top-20 (world number 19), following Lakshya Sen closely on world number 18. Sen moved up by two notches.
HS Prannoy, who lost to world number one Victor Axelsen in the semifinal, was the best-ranked Indian, holding on to his world ninth spot.
Rising shuttler Priyanshu Rajawat also secured a career-high ranking of world number 30, jumping four places.
With Rajawat, four Indians figure inside top-30 in men's singles.
Double Olympic medalist PV Sindhu arrested her slide and moved up two places to world number 12 in women's singles while veteran Saina Nehwal rose to world number 31, moving up by one place.
In women's doubles, Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand remained on 16th place. At 41st place after slipping by two notches, Ashwini Bhat and Shikha Gautam were the next Indians in the BWF rankings.
Indian mixed pair Rohan Kapoor and Sikki Reddy jumped two places to world number 33.
Tanisha Crasto and Ishan Bhatnagar were the next Indians on the list, slipping one place to world number 38.
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