NB In List | Chirag Shetty, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy achieve career-best World No. 3 rank; Here are their best performances in the BWF World Tour-

India's men's doubles pair of Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy have reached their career-best ranking as they climbed up three spots to become World No. 3 in the latest BWF World Rankings. The duo on Sunday clinched the first-ever BWF Super 1000 World Tour title in the final of the Indonesia Open.

 

 

Satwiksairaj and Chirag created history by defeating the second-seeded Malaysian pair of Aaron Chia and Wooi Yik Soh 21-17, 21-18.

 

 

The victory at the Indonesia Open was the sixth title for Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy on the BWF World Tour.

 

 

 

The Indian duo defeated the Indonesian duo Akbar Bintang and Reza Pahlevi by 21-16, 21-14 in 26 minutes to win the Hyderabad Open in 2018. With the victory in the tournament, they won their first-ever BWF World Tour tournament.

 

 

The duo became the first ever Indian men’s doubles pair to have won a BWF World Super 500 tournament in 2019 after becoming the Thailand Open champions. They defeated their Chinese opponents - Li Junhui and Liu Yuchen in the finals by 19-21, 21-18, 18-21 to register the first ever BWF World Super 500 title to their name.

 

 

After restrictions of COVID pandemic were lifted, the dynamic duo started the year with a massive victory as they won the India Open in a straight sets against the Indonesian pair of Mohammad Ahsan and Hendra Setiawan who they defeated 21-16, 26-24 in a 43 mins long encounter.

 

 

Satwik-Chirag then went on to win their first BWF World Super 750 title as they became the French Open 2022 champions. With this, they became the first Indian men’s doubles pair to have won a Super 750 title. The duo defeated Chinese Taipei’s Lu Ching Yao and Yang Po Han in a straight-game victory by 21-13, 21-19.

 

 

Swiss Open 2023 was the first title win for Satwik-Chirag, for the year 2023. They won all 5 matches in the tournament and won 10 out of 13 games. They faced the Chinese pair of REN Xiang Yu and TAN Qiang in the final and defeated them in a straight-game victory by 19-21, 22-24

 

 

Winning all 5 matches of the tournament and 10 out of 11 games, the emerging heroes of Indian badminton clinched their first-ever BWF World Super 1000 title and emerged as the Indonesia Open 2023 champions. The Malaysian pair of Aaron CHIA and SOH Wooi Yik faced a straight-game defeat as Satwik-Chirag won by 21-17 and 21-18, becoming the first Indian Men’s doubles duo to win the tournament.