Commonwealth Games champion Lakshya Sen’s hopes of constructing the minimize at Paris obtained a lift as he grabbed the fifteenth place in the newest Olympic Games Qualification rankings following his semifinal end finally week’s French Open badminton event.
The 22-12 months-previous from Almora had reached a profession-finest rating of world quantity six in November 2022 however noticed his rankings plummet to world No. 25 in April final 12 months. He recovered to the eleventh spot by August however fell to 20 early this 12 months following a collection of early exits.
(*15*)Things weren’t wanting good after his first-spherical losses in Malaysia Super 1000 and India Super 750 as he stayed world No. 19 in the Olympic Games qualification for just a few weeks however a semifinal end on the Super 750 occasion in the French capital final week noticed him take his tally to 74,897 factors.
The 2021 World Championships bronze medallist additionally climbed a spot to world quantity 18 in the BWF World rankings issued on Tuesday.
However, the 2023 World Championships bronze medallist HS Prannoy slipped to eighth in the world rating as nicely as in the Olympic Games qualification following his first-spherical loss final week, although he nonetheless stays the highest-ranked Indian singles participant in the race, whereas Kidambi Srikanth is ranked twenty sixth.
The high 16 in the world by April-end will make the minimize for the Olympics.
Among others, two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu (60,742), who completed on the quarterfinal stage in Paris final week, was ranked thirteenth in Paris qualification.
In ladies’s doubles, the race to Paris is heating up with Ashwini Ponnappa and Tanisha Jolly on the twentieth spot, six locations forward of compatriots Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand.
In the BWF world rating, nevertheless, Treesa and Gayatri have toppled Ashwini-Tanisha to the twenty second spot.
French Open champions Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty are ranked world primary in the BWF World rating however are positioned second in the Olympic Games qualification.
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