Asian Games Gold Medal Winners Sattvikasiraj Rankirade and Chirag Shetty have returned to the top-10 at the BWF Men's Doubles World Rankings announced on Tuesday. After reaching the China Open semifinal last week, they have improved three rankings. The former world number-1 pair has now reached the 10th position.
The Indian pair defeated Malaysian pair Aaron Chia and Soh Wui Yick 13-21, 17-21 in the semifinals of the China Open. This was the third semifinal of Satvik-Chirag on the BWF tour this season, which reached the Singapore Open and the last four of the India Open.
Indus remains unchanged in 15th place India's top player in the men's singles has reached 17th position with target Sen 54442 points, while HS Prannoy has come up in two places to 33rd. In the women's singles, the adventure Hooda has reached the best 31st of her career by beating PV Sindhu, a two -time Olympic medalist last week. Sindhu remains in 15th place.
In women's doubles, Trisha Jolie and Gayatri Gopichand are ranked 11th while Tanisha Krasto and Ashwini Ponappa came in two places to 45th.
How many rating points in which championship … Badminton is determined by the grade of the ranking tournament. The BWF World Ranking Tournament includes Super 1000, 750, 500, 300 and Super 100 matches. The winner gets points according to the ranking. For example, the winner of the super 1000 matches gets 12 thousand points. However, the winner of the Super 100 Tournament gets 5 thousand 500 points.
A maximum of 13 thousand points to win the World Championship and Olympics. World rankings are determined based on the total points. In addition to the winner, the finalists, shuttlers participating in the tournament from the semifinals are also given points according to grade and rank. China Open is a super 1000 level tournament.
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