India ace Kidambi Srikanth was rewarded for his sensational run this season as he grabbed a career-best ranking of World No. 2 after jumping two places in the latest BWF ranking released on Thursday.
Srikanth, who reached five finals and clinched four titles this year so far, now has 73,403 points, 4527 point away from World champion Viktor Axelsen of Denmark, who heads the ranking list.
The 25-year-old from Guntur, who had clinched back-to-back titles at Indonesia and Australia and then at Denmark and France, will have a chance to topple the Dane shuttler with some good show in the upcoming events at China and Hong Kong.
US Open Grand Prix gold winner H S Prannoy, who had reached the semi-finals in Paris, also improved a place to reach a career-best ranking of World No. 11.
Singapore Open champion B Sai Praneeth, however, dropped a place to be at the 16th spot, while Sameer Verma, who had skipped the events at Denmark and France due to fitness issues, is steady at the 18th place.
In the women's singles, P V Sindhu, who also reached the semi-finals in Paris, was static at World No. 2, while former World No. 1 Saina Nehwal retained 11th place.
Young men's doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, who entered the quarter-finals last week after beating the World No. 6 combo of Mads Pieler Kolding and Mads-Conrad-Petersen, improved four spots to be at 28th place.
Women's doubles pair of Ashwini Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy slipped two places to be at the 25th spot, while mixed doubles combo of Pranaav Jerry Chopra and Sikki stood at 16th place.
