BWF World Rankings: HS Prannoy Achieves Best Ranking In Four Years, Climbs To Number 16 Spot

Ace Indian shuttler HS Prannoy has achieved his highest rank in the last four years as he climbed two spots to achieve world number 16 status in the updated BWF World Rankings on Tuesday. Before this, he was world number 17 on October 27, 2018. On the other hand, the mixed doubles pair of Ishaan Bhatnagar and Tanisha Crasto also achieved their career-best rank of 33 after climbing two more spots. "Giant-killer @PRANNOYHSPRI on the verge of entering top-15, almost after 4 years

@ishaan0202/#TanishaCrasto achieve their highest rank Checkout the updated #BWFWorldRankings #IndiaontheRise #Badminton," tweeted Badminton Association of India (BAI).

Giant-killer @PRANNOYHSPRI on the verge of entering top-15, almost after 4 years@ishaan0202 /#TanishaCrasto achieve their highest rankCheckout the updated #BWFWorldRankings#IndiaontheRise#Badminton pic.twitter.com/D4CM22Pkr1

Some other notable movements in rankings saw Kidambi Srikanth move up by two spots to gain the world number 12 ranking in the men's singles category.

In women's singles category, the Olympic medalist PV Sindhu climbed one spot to achieve a world ranking of seven. Also, Saina Nehwal gained a world ranking of 33 by climbing three spots.

Recently, HS Prannoy became the world's number one player in the men's singles category in the BWF World Tour Rankings.

In the rankings updated on September 6, Prannoy emerged as the number one shuttler in tour rankings.

The 2022 BWF World Tour started on January 11 and will end on December 18. It is the fifth season of the BWF Badminton World Tour. The tour consists of 22 tournaments which will lead to the final of the tour in December. These 22 tournaments are divided into five levels, Level 1 is the World Tour finals, followed by