BWF rankings: Lakshya Sen regains career-best sixth spot

Star Indian shuttler Lakshya Sen jumped two spots on Tuesday to reclaim his career-high sixth position in the latest BWF World Rankings. The 21-year-old from Almora has a total of 75,024 points from 23 tournaments this season. Kidambi Srikanth and H S Prannoy remained ranked 11 and 12, respectively.

Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand of the women's doubles team jumped two places to world number 19. The pair has 46,020 points from 17 tournaments and



won a bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. French Open and Commonwealth Games champions Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty remained in the seventh spot in the men's doubles.

Among the other Indians in the men's singles rankings, Sameer Verma, who competed in the Australian Open last week but withdrew in the second round, rose two spots to 34th; B Sai Praneeth rose one spot to 38th, and Mithun Manjunath rose two spots to 41st.