The top-ranked Indian males’s doubles duo of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty has overtaken the record of Saina Nehwal for spending essentially the most number of weeks at number one within the Badminton World Federation (BWF) world ranking by an Indian. The hard-hitting duo, which has secured a number of landmark BWF titles and different championship wins/medals since 2022, has been on the prime for 10 weeks. Nehwal, who held the earlier record, secured the highest place on August 18, 2015, and stayed there for 9 weeks until October 21, 2015, as per Olympics.com.
The Asian Games champions secured the highest spot this yr after they made it to the finals of the China Open, Malaysia Open and India Open. A French Open title win solidified their stronghold of the number one ranking. The ranking system takes under consideration the ten highest-scoring occasions by a participant/pair within the previous 52 weeks. Currently, Chirag-Satwik have 1,02,303 factors to their title on the leaderboard and are over 5,000 factors away from the second-ranked South Korean pair of Kang Min Hyuk and Seo Seung Jae.
In October final yr, following their triumph on the Asian Games in Hangzhou, ‘Sat-Chi’ grew to become the primary Indian doubles pair ever to achieve to the highest of the BWF Rankings. But they may maintain the highest spots for simply three weeks. In the boys’s singles, Kidambi Srikanth reached the highest in April 2018 however might final solely per week there.
Legendary shuttler Prakash Padukone, the first-ever Indian to safe the distinguished All England Open title in 1980 was considered number one throughout his prime, however the computerised ranking level techniques got here a lot later within the sport.
