- The Asian Games champions got the best position this year after they came to the finals of the China Open, Malaysia Open, and India Open.
- A French Open title win cemented their fortress of the main positioning.
- The positioning framework considers the 10 most elevated scoring occasions by a player/match in the first 52 weeks.
The highest level Indian men’s duplicates team of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty has overwhelmed the record of Saina Nehwal for spending the most number of weeks at number one in the Badminton World League (BWF) world positioning by an Indian.
The hard-hitting pair, which has gotten a few milestone BWF titles and other title wins/decorations starting around 2022, has been at the top for quite a long time.
Chirag and Satwiksairaj Broke the Record
Nehwal, who held the record, got the top situation on August 18, 2015, and remained there for a very long time till October 21, 2015, according to Olympics.com.
Presently, Chirag-Satwik has 1,02,303 focuses to their name on the list of competitors and is north of 5,000 focuses clear of the second-positioned South Korean sets of Kang Min Hyuk and Website optimization Seung Jae.
In October last year, following their victory at the Asian Games in Hangzhou, ‘Sat-Chi’ turned into the primary Indian duplicate pair ever to reach the highest point of the BWF Rankings. Yet, they could hold the best positions for only three weeks.
In the men’s singles, Kidambi Srikanth arrived at the top in April 2018 however could endure just seven days there.
Unbelievable shuttler Prakash Padukone, the very first Indian to get the lofty All Britain Open title in 1980 was viewed as number one during his heyday, however, the modernized positioning point frameworks came a lot later in the game.
