Goa's Tanisha Crasto is ranked ninth in women's doubles.
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PANAJI
Young Goan shuttler Tanisha Crasto has entered the top-10 of the Badminton World Federation’s junior rankings.
Tanisha is ranked ninth in the women’s doubles category, alongside compatriots Treesa Jolly (8) and Aditi Bhatt (9). They are among six Indian players who feature in the top-10 lists across three categories.
Varun Kapur and Samiya Imad Farooqui are the top-ranked Indians in the men's and women's singles respectively. Both the shuttlers are in second spot. Three more Indians feature in the top-10 of the women's singles category — Tasnim Mir (4), Treesa Jolly (8) and Aditi Bhatt (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 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.
Indians in top-10 of BWF Junior Rankings: Men's singles - Varun Kapoor (2); Women's singles - Samiya Imad Farooqui (2), Tasnim Mir (4), Treesa Jolly (8), Aditi Bhatt (10); Women's doubles - Treesa Jolly (8), Tanisha Crasto (9), Aditi Bhatt (9).
