HS Prannoy was ranked ninth forward of the BWF World Championships 2023 held in Copenhagen, Denmark. However, wins over world No. 1 Viktor Axelsen and world No. 9 Loh Kean Yew en path to the semi-finals helped the Indian shuttler declare a historic medal.
Prannoy’s earlier career-best rank was seventh, achieved this May.
Earlier this 12 months, he gained the Malaysia Masters Super 500 to say his first-ever BWF World Tour title. The Indian badminton participant additionally made it to the ultimate of Australian Open Super 500 occasion in August.
The 31-year-old Prannoy is at the moment the one Indian singles participant ranked inside the highest 10.
Among the opposite Indian males’s singles gamers, Lakshya Sen dropped one spot to 12th, whereas former world No. 1 Kidambi Srikanth remained static at 20th. While Priyanshu Rajawat retained his 28th place, Mithun Manjunath rose two locations to 41st.
In the ladies’s singles, two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu moved up one spot to 14th regardless of struggling an early exit on the BWF World Championships 2023.
The former world champion Sindhu has witnessed a substantial drop within the rankings this season. The 28-year-old fell to world No. 15, her worst ranking in over a decade.
On the opposite hand, former world No. 1 Saina Nehwal was ranked 51st within the newest rankings. The London 2012 Olympics bronze medallist participated in solely six BWF Tour occasions this season. This was the primary time that Nehwal has dropped out of the highest 50 in over a decade.
Among different Indian badminton gamers in girls’s singles, Aakarshi Kashyap rose one spot to 38th whereas Malvika Bansod remained 44th.
In the lads’s doubles, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty retained their world No. 2 ranking after bowing out within the quarter-finals of the world championships.
Meanwhile, the ladies’s doubles pair of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand moved up two spots to 17th within the rankings. Rohan Kapoor and N Sikki Reddy remained India’s best-ranked combined doubles pair at 32nd.
