India’s one of the best singles shuttler at the moment, HS Prannoy has moved out of the top-10 rankings, just before the Paris Olympics 2024. After a string of poor results this year, Prannoy has slipped to WR-13 in the latest BWF rankings. In his last tournament, the Kerala shuttler was ousted in the quarters of the Australian Open, where he lost to Kodai Naraoka of Japan.
HS Prannoy, Lakshya Sen & PV Sindhu Struggle
So, this now means that there’s no singles shuttler, men’s or women’s, in the top-10 rankings, from India. This is poor considering, this is Olympics 2024 year. In the 10 tournaments in 2024, he has only reached the semis once, that too at the India Open in January. On the other hand, another Paris Olympics 2024-bound shuttler, Lakshya Sen remains out of top-10. He is just a spot below Prannoy, and is ranked 14th in the world.
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As far as the women’s singles is concerned, PV Sindhu is the best-placed Indian at the moment, and is ranked 12th in the world. She would be looking for a hat-trick of medals at the Olympics 2024.
Satwik/Chirag Best-placed Indians
The men’s doubles team of Satwik/Chirag remain the only Indians in the Top-10 of the rankings. In fact, they are placed at WR-3. They had lost their top spot to China’s Liang Wei Keng and Wang Chang. As far as women’s doubles is concerned, Tanisha Crasto and Ashwini Ponnappa also fell a spot to 20, while Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand stayed stagnant and World No. 24.
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