6 Indians in Top-10 of BWF world junior rankings; Varun Kapur, Samiya Farooqui attain World No. 2 spot

NewsBharati    16-Jan-2021 09:50:26 AM
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New Delhi, Jan 16: In a major development, young Indian shuttlers Varun Kapur and Samiya Imad Farooqui along with four other Indians have booked their berths in the Top-10 spots in the latest world junior rankings of the Badminton World Federation (BWF). Achieving a milestone in the year 2021, Varun climbed up four places in the men’s rankings while Samiya took a six-spot jump in the women's singles category as the youngsters achieved their career-best junior rankings and became World No. 2.
 
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In the last year, Varun had a great run as he picked his sixth junior title when he won the XII Portuguese International-2020 in November. While the 17-year-old Hyderabadi, a U-15 Asian Badminton Championship winner, Samiya has been one of the consistent performers at the junior circuit.
 
Besides, the BWF rankings released the rankings of the women singles category earlier this week that saw Indian domination with three more shuttlers - Tasnim Mir (4), Treesa Jolly (8) and Aditi Bhatt (10) - earning themselves a place in the Top-10. Even in the women’s doubles category, Tressa (8), Tanisha Crasto (9) and Aditi (9) are among the Indians who are placed in Top-10.
 
"It's great to see many junior shuttlers doing so well. We currently have 10 Indians in the Top-20 and the juniors have shown a lot of promise. This ranking will work as a desired boost for each of them and surely motivate them to work harder as it has been a tough year for COVID-19 affected the sporting world and badminton is trying to make a comeback after almost a year's break," Badminton Association of India (BAI) President Himanta Biswa Sarma said.
 
Earlier, BWF had frozen the world junior rankings as of March 17, 2020, owing to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, with the recommencement of some international junior tournaments, BWF stated that they have decided to add subsequent International junior tournament results to the world junior rankings without deducting points from previous weeks thereby creating a rolling ranking until such time as the world junior rankings can be fully unfrozen.
 
"BAI executive council meeting and AGM is scheduled for January 30 in Delhi. We will be finalising the detailed plan on how the domestic tournaments as well as the key junior tournaments that BAI plans to send its players this year. We will also be discussing the future plans related to coaching and training for junior shuttlers," said BAI General Secretary Ajay Singhania.
 
RANKINGS:
 
Men singles - Varun Kapoor (2)
 
Women Singles - Samiya Imad Farooqui (2), Tasnim Mir (4), Treesa Jolly (8), Aditi Bhatt (10)
 
Women doubles - Treesa Jolly (8), Tanisha Crasto (9), Aditi Bhatt (9)