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World Badminton Rankings: India’s Lakshya Sen reaches occupation-excessive 13th, Satwik-Chirag switch up two areas

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India’s Lakshya Sen grew to became World No.13 after successful the India Open title. Satwiksaijraj and Chirag also moved up to Eighth location within the sphere rankings.

Indian shuttler Lakshya Sen (Source: Twitter)

Young Lakshya Sen reached a occupation-excessive 13th in presumably the latest badminton world rankings after successful the males’s singles crown within the India Open, a title triumph by which also lifted the males’s doubles duo of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty to eighth location.

Two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu and light-weight world no 1 Kidambi Srikanth remained static at seventh and 10th spots, respectively, at the same time as Satwiksairaj and Chirag moved up two areas.

Sen made a jump of four areas, though-provoking up from the 17th location with 66470 parts to conclude in on reigning world champion Loh Kean Yew at 12th place. Sen defeated Yew within the final of the India Open.

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Closing 365 days, Sen reached the BWF World Championships semifinal the place he lost to Srikanth in a exhausting fought match 21–17, 14–21, 17–21 and settled for a bronze medal.

On Sunday, the 20-365 days-aged from Almora grew to became the major from the country to take an India Open males’s singles title on debut as he beat world champion Yew 24-22, 21-17 within the final right here. Sen defeated the Singaporean, who had beaten Srikanth in December to take the sphere championship title, in a match that lasted 54 minutes.

Mature world champion Sindhu maintained her seventh location with 90994 within the females’s rankings while Srikanth remained within the 10th location with 69158 parts within the males’s chart. B Sai Praneeth, too, remained static within the 18th location.

Chinese language Taipei’s Tai Tzu leads the females’s rankings with 108800 parts while reigning Olympic champion Victor Axelsen heads the males’s list with 116779 parts. From the Indian point of view, every other huge gainer has been the males’s doubles pair of Satwiksairaj and Chirag, who jumped from 10th to the eighth location with 76708 parts in presumably the latest rankings issued by the Badminton World Federation (BWF).

They defeated top-seeded Indonesian pair Mohammad Ahsan and Hendra Setiawan 21-16, 26-24 to take the males’s doubles crown at the Yonex-Morning time India Open on Sunday.

Coming into the match with a 1-3 head-to-head legend, Satwik and Chirag dished out a plucky effort against the Indonesian pair and staved off a fightback to reign supreme within the final.

Satwik and Chirag had won the Thailand Open Neat 500 title in 2019, besides reaching the final of the French Open Neat 750 the the same 365 days. No Indians featured within the females’s doubles and blended doubles rankings.

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