BWF world rankings: Satwik-Chirag obtain career-best no. 5 rankings, Prannoy again in high 10

The Indian doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty reached a career-best world quantity 5 whereas HS Prannoy regained his place within the high 10 in males’s singles within the BWF world rankings issued on Tuesday.

Satwik and Chirag have been on a stellar run this yr with two world tour titles at Indian Open Tremendous 500 and French Open Tremendous 750 and likewise claimed a maiden gold on the Commonwealth Video games and a bronze on the World Championships.

Their unprecedented success mirrored within the rating because the duo jumped two locations to the highest 5 with 75,806 score factors from 15 tournaments.

Prannoy, too, made positive factors within the newest rating as he as soon as once more broke into the highest 10, grabbing the world quantity 9 place after beginning the yr at world quantity 26.

The 30-year-old from Kerala, who had first cracked the elite bracket in 2016, dished out some memorable performances within the season with seven quarterfinals, two semifinals and a runner-up end on the Swiss Open.

He additionally shepherded the Indian staff to a historic Thomas Cup win in Bangkok however a person title eluded him. His constant run, nevertheless, was sufficient to earn him a spot within the season-ending BWF World Tour Finals and a nomination for the BWF Participant of the yr award.

Commonwealth Video games champion Lakshya Sen continued to be the best-placed Indian at quantity seven whereas former world no. 1 Kidambi Srikanth gained a rung to the eleventh place.

Double Olympic medallist P V Sindhu continued to carry on to the quantity six place in girls’s singles whereas the ladies’s doubles mixture of Gayatri Gopichand and Treesa Jolly, who had received a bronze in Birmingham, climbed two locations to world quantity 18.

In combined doubles, Ishaan Bhatnagar and Tanisha Crasto additionally jumped three locations to succeed in the twenty first spot.