Published By: Ritayan Basu
Last Updated: May 03, 2023, 09:11 IST
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty gained gold at Badminton Asia Championships (BAI)
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty gained a historic gold medal within the males’s doubles occasion on the Badminton Asia Championship
Star Indian males’s doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty on Tuesday regained its career-best rating of world no. 5 following the title-wining run on the Badminton Asia Championship.
The 2022 World Championships bronze medallists pair broke a 58-year-old drought, turning into the primary Indians after Dinesh Khanna to be topped champions on the continental championships.
Satwik and Chirag, who had achieved the world quantity 5 rankings in December final 12 months, jumped one spot within the newest BWF rankings to regain the fifth place.
Satwik and Chirag had defeated Malaysian mixture of Ong Yew Sin and Teo Ee Yi 16-21, 21-17, 21-19 in a nail-biting remaining.
Another Indian pair of Dhruv Kapila and MR Arjun too zoomed 4 spots to be ranked twenty third on this planet.
In males’s singles, HS Prannoy was regular on the ninth spot, whereas Kidambi Srikanth and Lakshya Sen moved one place as much as twenty second and twenty third respectively. Mithun Manjunath jumped 5 positions to be world no. 41.
In the ladies’s singles, PV Sindhu slipped to world no. 12, whereas Tanya Hemanth improved to fifty fifth spot.
Women’s doubles pair of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand climbed two spots to succeed in world no. 17.
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