Satwiksairaj Rankireddy

Satwiksairaj Rankireddy
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy
	Rankireddy in August 2022
Personal information
Country	India
Born	13 August 2000 (age 23); Amalapuram, East Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh, India
Height	1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	77 kg (170 lb)
Handedness	Right
Coach	Mathias Boe
Men's & mixed doubles
Highest ranking	7 (MD with Chirag Shetty 12 November 2019); 19 (XD with Ashwini Ponnappa 2 February 2021)
Current ranking	7 (MD), 92 (XD) (8 November 2022)
Medal record
Men's badminton
Representing India
World Championships
Thomas Cup
Commonwealth Games
Asia Team Championships
	BWF profile

Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (born 13 August 2000) is an Indian badminton player.^[1]^[2] He and his partner, Chirag Shetty, are the first men's doubles pair from India to be ranked inside the top 10 of the BWF World Ranking, with a career-high ranking of 7.^[3]

Early life and background

Rankireddy hails from a town named Amalapuram in the state of Andhra Pradesh and started playing badminton after following in the footsteps of his father, who was a state-level player in the past, as well his elder brother. In 2014, he joined the Pullela Gopichand Academy in Hyderabad and decided to become a doubles specialist.^[4]

Career

2018

In 2018, Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty played a crucial role in earning India a historic gold medal in the Mixed Team event at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, where they also won the men's doubles silver.^[5] They won their first BWF World Tour title in Hyderabad Open after beating the Indonesian pair of Akbar Bintang Cahyono and Muhammad Reza Pahlevi Isfahani in the final. ^[6]

2019

In 2019, Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty became the first Indian doubles pair to win a BWF Superseries or BWF World Tour (Super 500+) title, when they won the Thailand Open title, beating the Chinese pair of Li Junhui and Liu Yuchen in the final.^[7] They followed it up with a runner-up finish at the 2019 French Open, where they lost in the final to the Indonesian pair of Marcus Fernaldi Gideon and Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo.^[8]

2021

In 2021, Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty lost to the Indonesian duo of Mohammad Ahsan and Hendra Setiawan in the second round to crash out of the 2020 Yonex Thailand Open.^[9] In July, he and Shetty competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, but were eliminated in the group stage, following a loss to Marcus Fernaldi Gideon and Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo. However, they were the only pair in the entire tournament who defeated eventual gold medalists Lee Yang and Wang Chi-Lin, whom they had narrowly beaten in their first group stage encounter.^[10] In December, Rankireddy and Shetty qualified for the BWF World Tour Finals for the first time in their career, but withdrew from the tournament after a loss in their first group stage match to the Danish pair of Kim Astrup and Anders Skaarup Rasmussen.

2022

In 2022, Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty started the year by winning India Open.^[11] They were also part of India's Thomas Cup winning team. In the final, having lost the first game to the Indonesian duo of Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo and Mohammad Ahsan, they displayed immense perseverance and tenacity to win the second game and close out the third game at 21–19, giving India a 2–0 lead over Indonesia. This was pivotal in helping India bag its maiden Thomas Cup trophy.^[12] Rankireddy and Shetty then won the men's doubles gold at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games, beating the home pair of Ben Lane and Sean Vendy in the final.^[13] At the BWF World Championships, Rankireddy and Shetty won a bronze medal, India's first-ever men's doubles medal at the tournament. They beat defending champions Takuro Hoki and Yugo Kobayashi in the quarterfinals, but lost in the semi-finals to eventual champions Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik.^[14] They then won their first ever BWF World Super 750 title in the French Open by beating Chinese Taipei pair Lu Ching-yao and Yang Po-han in the finals.^[15]

Honours

Bestowed with Arjuna Award for badminton on August 2020^[16]

Achievements

BWF World Championships

Men's doubles

Year	Venue	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2022	Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium, Tokyo, Japan	Chirag Shetty	Aaron Chia Soh Wooi Yik	22–20, 18–21, 16–21	Bronze

Commonwealth Games

Men's doubles

Year	Venue	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2018	Carrara Sports and Leisure Centre, Gold Coast, Australia	Chirag Shetty	Marcus Ellis Chris Langridge	13–21, 16–21	Silver
2022	National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, England	Chirag Shetty	Ben Lane Sean Vendy	21–15, 21–13	Gold

BWF World Tour (4 titles, 2 runners-up)

The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018,^[17] is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). The BWF World Tours are divided into levels of World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300 (part of the HSBC World Tour), and the BWF Tour Super 100.^[18]

Men's doubles

Year	Tournament	Level	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2018	Hyderabad Open	Super 100	Chirag Shetty	Akbar Bintang Cahyono Moh Reza Pahlevi Isfahani	21–16, 21–14	Winner
2018	Syed Modi International	Super 300	Chirag Shetty	Fajar Alfian Muhammad Rian Ardianto	11–21, 20–22	Runner-up
2019	Thailand Open	Super 500	Chirag Shetty	Li Junhui Liu Yuchen	21–19, 18–21, 21–18	Winner
2019	French Open	Super 750	Chirag Shetty	Marcus Fernaldi Gideon Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo	18–21, 16–21	Runner-up
2022	India Open	Super 500	Chirag Shetty	Mohammad Ahsan Hendra Setiawan	21–16, 26–24	Winner
2022	French Open	Super 750	Chirag Shetty	Lu Ching-yao Yang Po-han	21–13, 21–19	Winner

BWF International Challenge/Series (10 titles)

Men's doubles

Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2016	Mauritius International	Chirag Shetty	Dhruv Kapila Saurabh Sharma	21–12, 21–16	Winner
2016	India International Series	Chirag Shetty	Goh Sze Fei Nur Izzuddin	8–11, 11–5, 7–11, 11–8, 11–5	Winner
2016	Tata Open India International	Chirag Shetty	Arjun M.R. Ramchandran Shlok	10–12, 11–9, 11–7, 11–5	Winner
2016	Bangladesh International	Chirag Shetty	M. Anilkumar Raju Venkat Gaurav Prasad	17–21, 21–7, 21–8	Winner
2017	Vietnam International	Chirag Shetty	Trawut Potieng Nanthakarn Yordphaisong	17–21, 21–9, 21–15	Winner
2019	Brazil International	Chirag Shetty	Jelle Maas Robin Tabeling	21–14, 21–18	Winner

Mixed doubles

Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2015	Tata Open India International	K. Maneesha	Arun Vishnu Aparna Balan	21–13, 21–16	Winner
2016	Mauritius International	K. Maneesha	Yogendran Khrishnan Prajakta Sawant	21–19, 11–21, 21–17	Winner
2016	India International Series	K. Maneesha	Low Hang Yee Cheah Yee See	5–11, 11–8, 12–10, 11–8	Winner
2016	Bangladesh International	K. Maneesha	Tanupat Viriyangkura Thanyasuda Wongya	21–12, 21–12	Winner

BWF International Challenge tournament

BWF International Series tournament

BWF Future Series tournament

BWF Junior International (1 title, 1 runner-up)

Boys' doubles

Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2014	India Junior International	Krishna Prasad Garaga	Arjun M. R. Chirag Shetty	7–11, 10–11, 6-11	Runner-up
2015	India Junior International	Krishna Prasad Garaga	W Sarapat Panachai Worasaktayanan	21–15, 21–17	Winner

BWF Junior International Grand Prix tournament

BWF Junior International Challenge tournament

BWF Junior International Series tournament

BWF Junior Future Series tournament

Record against selected opponents

Men's doubles results with Chirag Shetty against Year-end Finals finalists, World Championships semifinalists, and Olympic quarterfinalists. Accurate as of 13 November 2022.^[19]

Players	Matches	Results		Difference
Players	Matches	Won	Lost	Difference
Fu Haifeng Zhang Nan	1	0	1	–1
Li Junhui Liu Yuchen	3	2	1	+1
Liu Cheng Zhang Nan	1	0	1	–1
He Jiting Tan Qiang	2	1	1	0
Chen Hung-ling Wang Chi-lin	1	0	1	–1
Lee Yang Wang Chi-lin	2	1	1	0
Mathias Boe Carsten Mogensen	5	1	4	–3
Kim Astrup Anders Skaarup Rasmussen	7	2	5	–3
Marcus Ellis Chris Langridge	3	2	1	+1
Mohammad Ahsan Hendra Setiawan	5	2	3	–1

Players	Matches	Results		Difference
Players	Matches	Won	Lost	Difference
Fajar Alfian Muhammad Rian Ardianto	3	1	2	–1
Marcus Fernaldi Gideon Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo	11	0	11	–11
Takuro Hoki Yugo Kobayashi	4	3	1	+2
Hiroyuki Endo Yuta Watanabe	4	2	2	0
Takeshi Kamura Keigo Sonoda	5	0	5	–5
Ko Sung-hyun Shin Baek-cheol	1	1	0	+1
Aaron Chia Soh Wooi Yik	7	0	7	–7
Goh V Shem Tan Wee Kiong	2	0	2	–2
Ong Yew Sin Teo Ee Yi	5	2	3	–1

Awards and recognition

National

Arjuna Award: 2020^[20]

References

^ "Players: Satwiksairaj Rankireddy". Badminton World Federation. Retrieved 23 November 2016.
^ "Satwiksairaj Rankireddy". SportingIndia Sports Media Pvt Ltd. Retrieved 23 November 2016.
^ "Satwiksairaj Rankireddy-Chirag Shetty, Sai Praneeth achieve career-best badminton rankings". India Today. 12 November 2019. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
^ "Satwiksairaj Rankireddy profile: All you need to know about India's medal hopeful in badminton in Asian Games". Times Now. 11 August 2018. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
^ "BAI recommends Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, Chirag Shetty and Sameer Verma for Arjuna Awards". India Today. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
^ "Sameer, Satwik-Chirag crowned Hyderabad Open Champions". India Times. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
^ "Thailand Open: Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, Chirag Shetty 1st Indian doubles pair to win Super 500 title". India Today. Retrieved 12 February 2022.
^ "French Open: Satwik and Chirag finish men's doubles runners-up after losing final to Sukamuljo-Fernaldi". India Today. Retrieved 12 February 2022.
^ "Thailand Open: Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, Chirag Shetty crash out in 2nd round". India Today. 14 January 2021. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
^ "Rankireddy Satwiksairaj". Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 5 August 2021. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
^ "India Open: Lakshya, Satwik-Chirag duo lift titles". The Hindu. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
^ Manne Ratnakar (15 May 2022). "India trounce Indonesia to clinch Thomas Cup". The Times of India. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
^ Utathya Nag (8 August 2022). "Commonwealth Games 2022 badminton: Chirag Shetty-Satwiksairaj Rankireddy exorcise English demons to win gold medal at Birmingham". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 27 September 2022.
^ Manne Ratnakar (28 August 2022). "BWF World Championships: Satwik-Chirag claim bronze". The Times of India. Retrieved 27 September 2022.
^ "Satwiksairaj Rankireddy-Chirag Shetty win men's doubles title". The Hindu. 31 October 2022. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
^ "Satwik says Arjuna Award will fuel Olympic dream, Chirag terms it 'silver lining'". Indian Express. Retrieved 21 August 2020.
^ Alleyne, Gayle (19 March 2017). "BWF Launches New Events Structure". Badminton World Federation. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
^ Sukumar, Dev (10 January 2018). "Action-Packed Season Ahead!". Badminton World Federation. Archived from the original on 13 January 2018. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
^ "Satwiksairaj Rankireddy's Profile – Head To Head". BWF-Tournament Software. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
^ "Satwiksairaj-Chirag motivated for Tokyo 2021 post Arjuna recognition". Sportstar The Hindu. Retrieved 18 August 2020.

External links

[1] "Players: Satwiksairaj Rankireddy". Badminton World Federation. Retrieved 23 November 2016.

[2] "Satwiksairaj Rankireddy". SportingIndia Sports Media Pvt Ltd. Retrieved 23 November 2016.

[3] "Satwiksairaj Rankireddy-Chirag Shetty, Sai Praneeth achieve career-best badminton rankings". India Today. 12 November 2019. Retrieved 29 July 2021.

[4] "Satwiksairaj Rankireddy profile: All you need to know about India's medal hopeful in badminton in Asian Games". Times Now. 11 August 2018. Retrieved 27 October 2019.

[5] "BAI recommends Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, Chirag Shetty and Sameer Verma for Arjuna Awards". India Today. Retrieved 3 August 2021.

[6] "Sameer, Satwik-Chirag crowned Hyderabad Open Champions". India Times. Retrieved 9 September 2018.

[7] "Thailand Open: Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, Chirag Shetty 1st Indian doubles pair to win Super 500 title". India Today. Retrieved 12 February 2022.

[8] "French Open: Satwik and Chirag finish men's doubles runners-up after losing final to Sukamuljo-Fernaldi". India Today. Retrieved 12 February 2022.

[9] "Thailand Open: Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, Chirag Shetty crash out in 2nd round". India Today. 14 January 2021. Retrieved 29 July 2021.

[10] "Rankireddy Satwiksairaj". Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 5 August 2021. Retrieved 5 August 2021.

[11] "India Open: Lakshya, Satwik-Chirag duo lift titles". The Hindu. Retrieved 16 January 2022.

[12] Manne Ratnakar (15 May 2022). "India trounce Indonesia to clinch Thomas Cup". The Times of India. Retrieved 18 May 2022.

[13] Utathya Nag (8 August 2022). "Commonwealth Games 2022 badminton: Chirag Shetty-Satwiksairaj Rankireddy exorcise English demons to win gold medal at Birmingham". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 27 September 2022.

[14] Manne Ratnakar (28 August 2022). "BWF World Championships: Satwik-Chirag claim bronze". The Times of India. Retrieved 27 September 2022.

[15] "Satwiksairaj Rankireddy-Chirag Shetty win men's doubles title". The Hindu. 31 October 2022. Retrieved 31 October 2022.

[16] "Satwik says Arjuna Award will fuel Olympic dream, Chirag terms it 'silver lining'". Indian Express. Retrieved 21 August 2020.

[17] Alleyne, Gayle (19 March 2017). "BWF Launches New Events Structure". Badminton World Federation. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 29 November 2017.

[18] Sukumar, Dev (10 January 2018). "Action-Packed Season Ahead!". Badminton World Federation. Archived from the original on 13 January 2018. Retrieved 15 January 2018.

[19] "Satwiksairaj Rankireddy's Profile – Head To Head". BWF-Tournament Software. Retrieved 28 August 2019.

[20] "Satwiksairaj-Chirag motivated for Tokyo 2021 post Arjuna recognition". Sportstar The Hindu. Retrieved 18 August 2020.

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