BWF World Ranking: Lakshya Sen Achieves Career-High in Doubles, Treesa-Gayatri Achieve Career-High in Singles

"Indian badminton star Lakshya Sen's silver-medal performance at the All England Badminton Championships helped him break into the top ten of the current BWF World Ranking on Tuesday. The 20-year-old from Uttarakhand, who became only the fifth Indian to reach the All England Championships' final, advanced two places to 74,786 points, overtaking reigning world champion Loh Kean Yew of Singapore.

 

On Sunday, Sen lost a devastating four-game match to Olympic champion and world No. 1 Viktor Axelsen of Denmark. As a result, the former world junior number one Indian has surpassed Kidambi Srikanth, who has slid to 12th place this week.

 

Sen has pulled out of the Swiss Open owing to weariness after reaching the finals of the German Open and the All England Open in the previous two weeks. Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand of the women's doubles team surged 12 places to a career-high world number 34 after reaching the semifinals of the All England Championship for the first time."

 

"In the quarterfinals, the couple surprised second-seeded Koreans Lee Sohee and Shin Seungchan, who had been upgraded to the main draw from the reserve list at Birmingham." Despite dropping a position, Commonwealth Games bronze medalist Ashwini Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy retained India's best-ranked women's doubles duo at world number 20."

 

"After a second-round defeat at All England, double Olympic medalist P V Sindhu remained at world number 7, while Saina climbed two places to 23rd. Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, who won the men's doubles title at the India Open in January, moved up to seventh place.