High-ranked Indian males’s doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty have overtaken Saina Nehwal‘s document for many weeks spent at primary by an Indian within the BWF World Rankings. 

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Satwik-Chirag have been on the high for 10 weeks within the BWF World Rankings. Based on Olympics.com, Nehwal, who held the earlier document, regained the highest place on 18 August 2015 and remained there for 9 weeks till 21 October 2015. 

The Indian pair, who’ve secured a number of historic BWF titles and different championship wins/medals since 2022, achieved the highest place this yr by reaching the finals of China Open, Malaysia Open and India Open. The French Open title win solidified their stronghold of the primary rating within the BWF World Rankings. The rating system takes under consideration the ten highest-scoring occasions by a participant/pair within the final 52 weeks.

SAT-CHI’s domination on the high

Now, the Asian Video games champions have 1,02,303 factors on the leaderboard and are greater than 5,000 factors forward of second-placed South Korean pair Kang Min Hyuk and Search engine optimisation Seung Jae. 

Earlier, Satwik-Chirag grew to become the first Indian doubles pair to achieve the highest of the BWF World Rankings in October final yr. They reached that place after their win on the Asian Video games in Hangzhou. However they may stay on the high place just for three weeks. 

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Alternatively, in males’s singles, Kidambi Srikanth reached the highest in April 2018 however might keep there just for per week. Whereas legendary shuttler Prakash Padukone, who was the primary Indian to clinch the celebrated All England Open title in 1980, was thought-about primary throughout his tenure, the computerized rating level system got here into the sport a lot later.