Thursday, December 19, 2019

Badminton News

2019 Year-end rankings of the Indian top-50 players (last year's rankings in bracket),

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 Doublesv 30 Sikki Reddy / Ashwini Ponnappa (23)
46 Pooja Dandu / Sanjana Santoshv 50 Meghana Jakkampudi /Poorvisha S Ram (31)

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

In the singles, India having most players, 8, in the top-50 ... China and Japan have 7 each but our, not a single player produced any world-beater performance ... We need a lot of improvement from our players for hoping any chance in Tokyo 2020 ... The jury is out for Lakshya as his higher ranking through winning $25K tournaments ... In the women singles, Sindhu becoming a World Champion was only a bright spot ... Otherwise, forgetting year for Sindhu ... Saina's performance is on the declining and her injuries also not helping her.
Satwik and Chirag showing a lot of improvement after Satwik's 6+ months injury break ... They r currently performing like the top-8 doubles pair ... Having a lot of hopes from them ... Ashwini-Sikki looks stagnant and remains in the top-30 ... After Satwik's comeback, interesting to see how he and Ashwini perform in the mixed-doubles.

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