Satwik-Chirag pair achieves career-best World No 2 rating

Fresh from profitable the Korea Open, India’s high males’s doubles pair of Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy on Tuesday rose to a career-best second spot within the newest BWF rankings.

Satwik and Chirag gained a spot, displacing the Chinese pair of Liang Wei Keng and Wang Chang whom they’d defeated within the Korea Open semifinals final week, to attain a brand new career-high rating within the males’s doubles circuit.

The reigning Asian champions, who received the Korea Open (Super 500), Swiss Open (Super 300) and Indonesia Open (Super 1000) titles this season, now have 87,211 factors.

Playing their fourth ultimate of the 12 months, Satwik and Chirag had rallied from a sport right down to defeat the world primary pair of Fajar Alfian and Muhamad Rian Ardianto within the Korea Open final week.

The two haven’t misplaced a single ultimate this season and are on a 10-match unbeaten streak on the BWF World Tour.

Meanwhile, two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu, who made an early exit from the Korea Open, has managed to carry on to her seventeenth spot within the singles listing.

London Olympics bronze medallist Saina Nehwal, nonetheless, has dropped a spot to 37.

HS Prannoy continues to be India’s top-ranked shuttler, occupying the tenth spot within the males’s singles rankings, led by Denmark’s Victor Axelsen.

While Canada Open winner Lakshya Sen has slipped a spot to world quantity 13 after lacking the Korea Open, Kidambi Srikanth, who has been fighting type, stays on twentieth.