Badminton World Rankings: Lakshya Sen moves up to 11, Srikanth at 12

Lakshya Sen rose to his career-best ever world rank in the Badminton World rankings. After his heroic performance in the German open 2022, he surpassed Kidambi Srikanth and reached the 11th position in the Badminton World rankings.

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The rising Indian shuttler played bravely through his injury in the 2022 German Open final against the three-time World Junior Champion Kunlavut Vitidsarn. Meanwhile, he also defeated World No 1 Victor Axelsen in one of the matches in the German open. Lakshya was simply phenomenal over the last few months. He said at the beginning of the year that his aim for 2022 will be to enter the Top 10 rankings. Presently, he holds 70086 points in the men's singles list.

Lakshya acquired 5950 ranking points after becoming the runner-up of the 2022 German Open. This helped him to ride his position above in chat and displace Kidambi as World No. 11.

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Indian Badminton player Kidambi Srikanth dropped his position in the chart. He is now sitting at the 12th rank with 69,158 points. B Sai Praneeth also dropped his place in the chart and is now acquiring the 19th rank.