NEW DELHI: Ahead in their campaign at the 2018 Commonwealth Games at Gold Coast City, in the southeast of the Australian state of Queensland from April Four-15, the Indian males's doubles badminton pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty were given a mental boost by coming into the highest 20 of the BWF ratings for the primary time of their careers. Sattwik and Chirag - aged 17 and 20 respectively - moved to No. 20 in the newest BWF ratings for males's doubles on Thursday.
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This signifies that India now has seven badminton gamers on the earth best 20 - Kidambi Srikanth is lately second in the males's singles followed by HS Prannoy at 12th position and B Sai Praneeth at 15; in the girls's singles, PV Sindhu is third and Saina Nehwal 12th. Like the aforementioned shuttlers, Sattwik is also a pupil of Dronacharya Pullela Gopichand whom he joined at the age of 14.
Sattik and Chirag are hopeful of finishing the lads's doubles drought at the CWG, the place they are going to turn out for the primary time at the quadrennial video games. Though they have got yet to end up at the podium in combination, Chirag and Sattwik have completed success at the badminton courtroom.
In 2016, they gained the Tata Open India International Challenge followed by wins in Mauritius and Bangladesh. In 2017, they gained the Vietnam Open global problem the place they toppled former Olympic and international champion Markis Kido and his spouse Hendra Gunawan to say the identify. Also in 2017, Sattwik and Chirag qualified for the Glasgow World Championship and made it so far as the quarter-finals of the Korea Open and the French Open.
In 2018, the duo reached the semi-finals of the Indonesia Masters and most not too long ago were eliminated at the doorstep of the All England Open quarters by London Olympics silver medallists Mathias Boe and Carsten Mogensen.
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This signifies that India now has seven badminton gamers on the earth best 20 - Kidambi Srikanth is lately second in the males's singles followed by HS Prannoy at 12th position and B Sai Praneeth at 15; in the girls's singles, PV Sindhu is third and Saina Nehwal 12th. Like the aforementioned shuttlers, Sattwik is also a pupil of Dronacharya Pullela Gopichand whom he joined at the age of 14.
Sattik and Chirag are hopeful of finishing the lads's doubles drought at the CWG, the place they are going to turn out for the primary time at the quadrennial video games. Though they have got yet to end up at the podium in combination, Chirag and Sattwik have completed success at the badminton courtroom.
In 2016, they gained the Tata Open India International Challenge followed by wins in Mauritius and Bangladesh. In 2017, they gained the Vietnam Open global problem the place they toppled former Olympic and international champion Markis Kido and his spouse Hendra Gunawan to say the identify. Also in 2017, Sattwik and Chirag qualified for the Glasgow World Championship and made it so far as the quarter-finals of the Korea Open and the French Open.
In 2018, the duo reached the semi-finals of the Indonesia Masters and most not too long ago were eliminated at the doorstep of the All England Open quarters by London Olympics silver medallists Mathias Boe and Carsten Mogensen.
BWF rankings: Satwiksairaj, Chirag break into world top 20
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