LigaSports – Badminton News: A 15-year-old Indian badminton player, Lakshya Sen, managed to reach the BWF junior world ranking in an official announcement released by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) on Friday (3/1) evening local. time.
Lakshya Sen managed to reach the first place in the world junior rankings after collecting 16,903 points, followed by a young Taiwanese badminton player, Chia Hao Lee, in second place with 16,091 points.
Lakshya Sen, who hails from Uttarakhand, India, also managed to win a bronze medal at the 2016 World Junior Championships in Bilbao, Spain.
“Very proud that Olympic Gold Quest (India's national coaching program) has supported him since the age of 11. OGQ took the time to fully support Lakshya Sen and provided a personal trainer just for Lakshya and he is also following a special diet,” said Viren Rasquinha, CEO of Olympic Gold Quest India.
Lakshya Sen has been training under 1980 All England champion and former Indian national team player Prakash Padukone at his private academy (Badminton Academy Bangalore) since the age of 10.
In the senior sector, Rio 2016 Olympics silver medalist badminton player PV Sindhu managed to achieve a significant ranking by gaining three places to reach 6th place with 69,399 points, while champion gold from the 2017 Malaysian Masters Grand Prix, Saina. Nehwal, was in ninth position with 66,709 points.
Meanwhile, in the men's category, Indian Open Grand Prix 2017 gold champion Sameer Verma managed to improve his position and ranks 25th in the world. However, India's top men's badminton player Kidambi Srikanth had to drop out of the top 20 due to failure to achieve positive results in the last few tournaments in late 2016.
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