20 year old Lakshya Sen enters into the top 10 world rankings
The young badminton star has managed to push his rankings after a string of fantastic results in the recent days
Lakshya Sen of India has entered the top ten of the men’s singles badminton world rankings for the first time, taking ninth place in the most recent standings. Since his impressive run began in the latter half of last year, the young shuttler’s ranking has been on an upward trajectory. Lakshya Sen, 20, recently finished second in a strong field at the All England Open on Sunday, defeating defending champion Lee Zee Jia and world bronze medalist Anders Antonsen on the way to the final.
This was his third final appearance on the BWF World Tour since winning the Super 500 India Open at the start of the year and finishing second at the German Open. Lakshya Sen’s recent accomplishments include a bronze medal at the world championship and podium finishes at the BWF World Tour Final and the Hylo Open. Lakshya Sen is now the highest-ranked Indian in men’s singles badminton, ahead of world silver medalist Kidambi Srikanth, who is ranked 12, and Tokyo Olympian B Sai Praneeth, who is ranked 19.
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Along with Lakshya Sen, India’s top men’s doubles pair of Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy rose a spot to equal their career-high ranking of seventh. The Chirag-Satwik duo won the India Open, finished third in the Super 1000 Indonesia Open, and will represent India at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand, a teenage team, also reached a career-high ranking of 34 in the women’s doubles, jumping 12 places since the previous update.
They won the Odisha Open 2021 and finished second at the Syed Modi 2022 before reaching the All England Open semi-finals. The other Indian pair, Ashwini Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy, dropped a place but remain India’s highest-ranked women’s doubles team at world No. 20.
