Rankireddy-Shetty jump seven spots in badminton rankings

Indian men's doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty today jumped seven places to enter the top 10 of the latest world rankings. 

This follows their historic win at last week's Thailand Open. They are placed ninth in the doubles rankings. 

The other Indian men's doubles duo of Manu Attri and B Sumeeth Reddy remained on 25th spot.

In the men's singles, Parupalli Kashyap moved up three places to 32nd spot, while Subhankar Dey climbed two places to 39th.



However, there were no significant changes for other Indian singles shuttlers as Kidambi Srikanth (10th), Sameer Verma (13), B Sai Praneeth (19), H S Prannoy (31) and Sourav Verma (44) are all static at their respective positions. 

In the women's singles rankings, Olympic medallists P V Sindhu managed to hold on to her fifth place and Saina Nehwal the eighth spot. 

In the women's doubles, Ashwini Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy moved up a place to 23rd.