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Re: Indian Badminton Player Rankings

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Saina will need big performances in at least 2-3 tournaments to stay in top 16 by June which is olympiad cut-off time. Aa of now she is #27 in race to Tokyo rankings.
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Re: Indian Badminton Player Rankings

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2019 Year-end rankings (with last year's rankings in bracket)- ( only top 50 players)

Men's Singles
11 B. Sai Praneeth (22)
12 Srikanth Kidambi (8)
23 Purupalli Kashyap (44)
26 H. S. Prannoy (20)
28 Saurabh Varma (54)
32 Lakshya Sen (109)
33 Sameer Varma (12)
44 Subhankar Dey (49)

Women's Singles

6 P. V. Sindhu (3)
11 Saina Nehwal (9)

Men's Doubles
12 Satwiksairaj Ranikreddy / Chirag Shetty (16)
30 Manu Attri / B. Sumeeth Reddy (25)
49 Arjun M.R/ Shlok Ramchandran (40)

Women's Doubles
30 Sikki Reddy / Ashwini Ponnappa (23)
46 Pooja Dandu / Sanjana Santosh
50 JAKKAMPUDI Meghana /Poorvisha S RAM (31)

Mixed Doubles
28 Sikki Reddy / Pranav Chopra (23)
36 Ashwini Ponappa / Satwiksairak Ranikreddy (22)
47 K. Manisha / MR Arjun

In mens singles we continue to have great depth - 8 players in top 50 which is more than China and Japan but sadly none is able to make a leap to top 5 ( after Srikanth did so briefly a couple of years back). When will we take that next step in mens singles ?
The other notable improvement is by Satwik-Chirag who are ranked #12 only because they missed a few months due to injury. In race to Tokyo rankings they are #8 which appears to be their real world ranking as of now.
Other than everyone else has gone down.
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Re: Indian Badminton Player Rankings

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It is Lakshya as in T-A-R-G-E-T. There is a typo above.
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Corrected. Thanks,Prasen.
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Once again, thank you so much for all your hard work to keep us informed here.
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Re: Indian Badminton Player Rankings

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Can we start a all-time badminton highest ranking achieved thread for Indian players? I will try to collect some of the data and post but was thinking that maybe some of you already know/have that or part of that information. Even if it is partial, post it, and then we can collectively add. Or do we already have some such thread?
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Re: Indian Badminton Player Rankings

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Here is list which Rajighosh had posted on page 4 of this thread itself in 2014-
Here are a few all time high rankings, restricted to top 25 only.
Prakash Padukone:1
Saina Nehwal:2
Nandu Natekar: 4 ?
Gopichand: 5
Jwala Gutta/ V Diju: 6
Parupalli Kashyap: 6
Ami Ghia: 7
PV Sindhu: 9
Srikanth Kidambi: 10
Chetan Anand: 10
Jwala Gutta/ Ashwini Ponappa: 13
Rupesh Kumar/ Sanave Thomas: 13
Aparna Popat: 16
Vimal Kumar: 19
Gurusai Dutt: 19
Arvind Bhat:20
Ajay Jayaram: 21, just misses top 20.
Anup Shridhar: 24
I could not find the highest rankings of Syed Modi while Madhumita Bisht reached a highest of 28 only.

HS Prannoy may break into top 20 soon, currently at 24.
Needs to be updated for rankings since then.
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Re: Indian Badminton Player Rankings

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Rankings as of 21 June 2023 (in top 50):

Men's:
9: HS Prannoy
18: Lakshya Sen
19: Kidambi Srikanth
30: Priyanshu Rajawat
39: Mithun Manjunath
48: Kiran George


Women's:
12: PV Sindhu
31: Saina Nehwal
41: Aakarshi Kashyap
43: Asmita chaliha
46: Malvika Bansod
50: Tasnim mir


Men's doubles:
3: Satwiksairaj RANKIREDDY & Chirag SHETTY
25: Arjun & Dhruv Kapila
36: Krishna Prasad & Vishnuwardhan


Women's doubles:
16: Treesa Jolly & Gayatri Gopichand
41: Ashwini & Shikha


Mixed doubles:
33: Rohan & Sikki Reddy
38: Ishan bhatnagar& Tanisha Castro
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Re: Indian Badminton Player Rankings

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HS Prannoy, who made a first-round exit at the China Open last week, dropped one place in the latest BWF World Rankings released on Tuesday to be ranked seventh.
Lakshya Sen, who also made a first-round exit at the China Open, has been replaced by Chou Tien Chen in the 12th spot. The Indian is now ranked 13th with 59,581 points in 21 tournaments.
Former world no. 1 Kidambi Srikanth is now out of the top 20 as he is ranked 21st after a string of poor performances this year. Priyanshu Rajawat remained ranked 28th.
Similarly, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, who rose to their career-best rank of world no. 2 last month, also slipped one place to be ranked third in the men's doubles.


In women's singles, there is no Indian in the top 10, with PV Sindhu being the highest-ranked player at 14th.
Aakarshi Kashyap is India's second-highest-ranked women's singles player. She is ranked 38th as Malvika Bansod and Ashmita Chaliha went down three places each to be ranked 47th and 49th in the world rankings, respectively.
In women's doubles, Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand, who will compete at the Hong Kong Open starting on Tuesday, continue to slump as they are ranked 18th in the latest rankings

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Re: Indian Badminton Player Rankings

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2023 Year-end rankings (with last year's rankings in bracket)- ( only top 50 players)

Men's Singles
8 H. S. Prannoy (8)
16 Lakshya Sen (7)
24 Srikanth Kidambi (12)
31 Priyanshu Rajawat (50)
37 Kiran George (45)

Tough year in men's singles with HSP with some big tournament performances offsetting Lakshya's struggles and Srikanth starting to slide towards retirement.

Depth wise, we had 7 top-50 players vs 5 now.

Women's Singles
11 P. V. Sindhu (7)
40 Aakarshi Kashyap (32)

WS has been a disaster both with PVS' struggles and also depth - we had 6 top-50 players vs 2 now.

Men's Doubles
2 Satwiksairaj Rankireddy / Chirag Shetty (5)
43 Arjun M.R/ Dhruv Kapila (21)
49 KP Garaga / VG Panjala (32)

The success story of Indian spot in Satwik/Chirag. Arjun MR can't stay fit and Dhruv should look for a different partner. Depth wise another disaster with 3 top-50 players vs 5 last year.

Women's Doubles
19 Treesa Jolly / Gayatri Gopichand (17)
24 Tanisha Crasto / Ashwini Ponnappa (Ashwini was ranked 28 with Sikki Reddy)
49 Ashwini Bhat / Shikha Gautam (38)

Two genuine top-25 pairs though Treesa/Gayatri have stagnated. 3 top-50 players vs 5 last year.

Mixed Doubles
40 Sikki Reddy / Rohan Kapoor (69)

Ishaan Bhatnagar and Tanisha were a top-20 pair at end of 2022, Ishaan has been injured and Tanisha has just started playing with Dhruv. 2 top-50 pairs vs just one now.

Overall - not a good year for Indian badminton. We have lost depth everywhere, and only Satwik/Chirag have improved amongst the top stars and HSP continues to do well at big tournaments but both PVS and Lakshya slid out of the top 10.
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Re: Indian Badminton Player Rankings

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Yes, a disappointing year except the continued rise of SatChi and HSP doing well in select tournaments.

Fall of Lakshya is most disappointing for me . He was the one with a headstart over his junior peers a couple of years back and now he has fallen back much behind them. Kunlavut became world champion this year, Naraoka and Li Shi Feng are currently ranked world #2 and #3 respectively.

Hope he can somehow get his act together and at least qualified for Paris Olympics where we expected him to rise to a medal contender.

Sindu's fall is more on expected lines as age is catching up on her.
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Lakshya unfortunately can't even win the Indian nationals and lost in the quarterfinals to unheralded Bharat Raghav. He is going through a major slump.
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I think he has injury problems that have not fully healed.
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Re: Indian Badminton Player Rankings

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While on the topic of the Nationals, the women's final was a rematch of the national u17 finals between 16 year old Anmol Kharb and Tanvi Sharma (who turned 15 on Dec 22); Anmol won again (as she did in the u17 finals) after Tanvi retired in the 3rd game.

Anmol has gotten very little international exposure but this should change that - Anmol beat the 2nd, 3rd and 6th seeds and then Tanvi in the finals to win this.

Tanvi beat top seed Aakarshi and relatively easily at that, and beat 16-year old Unnati in a humdinger. She was an Asian u17 finalist at 14 earlier in the year and has been getting big tournament experience. She is also playing doubles with older sister Radhika but that will tail off soon imo.

I think this lot from Haryana and Punjab - Unnati, Tanvi and Anmol - is the generation that grew up on Saina's breakthrough exploits. Similar to how Anand's world championships has spurred an Indian chess revolution in Chennai with Pragg, Gukesh, Vaishali etc, it takes 15-20 years to see the results of how success spurs the next generation of success.

I am a little less worried about the future of WS badminton though obviously Saina and Sindhu had crazy success as teens. Saina won a Super-300 equivalent tournament at age 16 and reached the Junior WC finals, and reached the Olympics QFs and won the Junior WC at 18. Sindhu won the Asian Juniors and Super-300 equivalent titles at age 17 and was ranked in the top-15 and won her first WC medal at 18. We need to see one of the 3 to have a similar breakthrough in the next couple of years.

Tanisha paired with Dhruv won the mixed doubles easily entering as an unseeded pair. Tanisha is clearly a great doubles prospect and she and her team needs to figure out where to focus on after Paris and presumably Ashwini retiring. Tanisha paired with the right partner is a genuine top-10 doubles player in either WD or XD.
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