Indian badmiton star Lakshya Sen won silver at the All England Badminton Championships and broke into the top 10 of the latest BWF World Ranking on Tuesday.
Aged 20 years from Uttarakhand, became the fifth Indian ever to reach the summit clash of All England Championships, improved two places to become world number 9 with 74,786 points, surpassing reigning world champion Loh Kean Yew of Singapore.
He suffered a heartbreaking straight-game loss to Olympic champion and world No. 1 Viktor Axelsen of Denmark on Sunday.
Lakshya Sen, the former world junior number one Indian thus became the country’s highest-ranked men’s singles player, surpassing Kidambi Srikanth, who slipped to the 12th spot this week.
He withdrew from the ongoing Swiss Open due to exhaustion after making the final of the German Open and All England in the last two weeks.
Women’s doubles pair of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand also reached a career-best world number 34, riding on their maiden semifinal finish at the All England Championship.
They were promoted to the main draw from the reserve list at Birmingham, stunned the second-seeded Koreans Lee Sohee and Shin Seungchan in the quarterfinals.
The bronze medallists of the Commonwealth Games Ashwini Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy remained India’s best-ranked women’s doubles pair at world number 20.
Double Olympic medallist P V Sindhu remained at 7, while Saina 23, following a second-round defeat at All England.
Commonwealth Games silver medallists Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, who claimed the men’s doubles title at India Open, made a place to the seventh spot.
