Commonwealth Games gold medalist shuttler Lakshya Sen has climbed to a career-high eighth spot within the newest BWF males’s singles world rankings.
Men’s doubles pair of MR Arjun and Dhruv Kapila additionally moved up two locations to achieve twenty first place within the prime 20 within the checklist launched on Tuesday. Two-time Olympic medalist PV Sindhu completed sixth within the girls’s singles rankings whereas the pair of Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy completed eighth within the males’s doubles class. The 21-year-old Sen, who received a bronze medal on the 2021 World Championships, has been in high-quality kind, beginning the 12 months with a gold medal on the Yonex-Sunrise India Open earlier than his runner-up end on the prestigious All England. Open Championship and German Open.
He was additionally a key member of India’s historic Thomas Cup victory after 73 years. On the opposite hand, the in-form pair of Arjun and Dhruv have been steadily bettering the rankings after beginning the 12 months at forty second place.
Arjun and Dhruv, who lately received the India Maharashtra International Challenge 2022 title, are identified to trigger upsets. One such turnaround occurred at this 12 months’s BWF World Championships the place they took simply 40 minutes to beat the then world No.8 Danish pair of Kim Astrup and Anders Rasmussen.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
