Badminton News: Last year’s fantastic season opened up the landscape for India’s top badminton players Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, with hopes the pair will find success for All England glory.

Satwik and Chirag broke new ground in 2022, winning two World Tour tournaments, namely India Open Super 500 and French Open Super 750, Commonwealth Games gold, epic Thomas Cup India victory and his first bronze medal at the World Championships.

“We have the same target this year, basically to do well in the big leagues, including the All England which we haven’t won so far. I think a good performance in 4-5 tournaments in a year will be good enough to seal Olympic qualification.” Chirag Shetty told PTI in an interview.

Unprecedented success last year saw both men achieve a career-best ranking at No. 1. 5th in the world at the end of the year and Chirag says the next goal is to break into the top 3.

“Reaching the top 5 is a dream for us, but we believe we can go even higher,” he said.

“Our target this season is top 3. We don’t want to keep a ranking mindset because we also have what it takes to be world number 1. It will take consistency.”

Satwiksairaj, 22, and Chirag Shetty, 25, were heartbroken in 2021 when they failed to progress through the group stage at the Tokyo Olympics. Qualifying for the Paris Olympics will begin in May and Chirag Shetty said they will look to seal their Olympic spot in the first half of the season.

“If we can do that in the first half, we can really focus on the big events like the World Championships, Asian Games and World Tour Finals,” he said.

“As the number of events will be larger, we will send entries for Super 500 tournaments and more. If we do well at the start, we will skip the next event to give our body a break.”

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