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Pune: Pune-based Sukant Kadam has risen to the No. 2 position on the BWF Para-Badminton World Rankings.<\/p>\nPune: Pune-based Sukant Kadam has risen to the No. 2 position on the BWF Para-Badminton World Rankings.<\/p>\n
The all-time best achieved by the Sangli-born Nikhil Kanetkar Badminton Academy (NKBA) trainee is a huge leap for both the Academy and Sukant\u2019s towards the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. Badminton will be an official sport for the first time at the 2020 Games.<\/p>\n
Sukant rose one position on the singles ranks in the \u2018SL4\u2019 class as per released by the world body on 12th June 2017. Earlier, Sukant was ranked No. 3.<\/p>\n
His rise has primarily been due to consistent exposure and performance on the Para- Badminton circult. In recent time, Sukant did well to win back-to-back bronze medals in Thailand and Ireland respectively.<\/p>\n
The effort won him 30 and 75 points respectively to swell his points.<\/p>\n
So far, Sukant\u2019s has played five tournaments; Spain, Uganda, Turkey, Thailand and Ireland and has won a medal in each of the five in singles.<\/p>\n
The phenomenal rise by Sukant makes him the second-best ranked para-badminton player in any class from India on the BWF rankings. The others are; Parul Dalsukhbhai Parmar who is the world No.1 in the \u2018SL 3\u2019 (Women) and Manoj Sarkar the world No 2 in the in the \u2018SL3\u2019 (Men) class.<\/p>\n
Sukant says; \u201cThe aim is to play in the 2020 Games. It\u2019s a long way to go and lot of hardwork is needed. I have been blessed so far and owe it all to the confidence that Nikhil Sir has given me. The feeling is still to settle in.\u201d<\/p>\n
NKBA Director and Head Coach Nikhil Kanetkar said, \u201cTo be ranked No.2 is a huge feat. It makes our Academy proud that we are doing the right things. Sukant is a focused player and going forward we will be looking into more exposure for Sukant in our mission.\u201d <\/p>\n
TOP-5
1-Lucas Mazur (France) 362.5 points
2-Sukant Kadam (India) 165.0 pts
3-Suhas Lalinakhre (India) 162.5 pts
4-Bakri Omar (Malaysia) 160.0 pts
5-Tarun Dhillon (India) 150.0 pts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pune: Pune-based Sukant Kadam has risen to the No. 2 position on the BWF Para-Badminton World Rankings.<\/p>\n
The all-time best achieved by the Sangli-born Nikhil Kanetkar Badminton Academy (NKBA) trainee is a huge leap for both the Academy and Sukant\u2019s towards the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. Badminton will be an official sport for the first time at the 2020 Games.<\/p>\n
Sukant rose one position on the singles ranks in the \u2018SL4\u2019 class as per released by the world body on 12th June 2017. Earlier, Sukant was ranked No. 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1341,22463,6480,466,21420,22464,22085],"class_list":["post-35191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-badminton-badminton","tag-badminton","tag-bwf-para-badminton-world-rankings","tag-indian-sports","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-nikhil-kanetkar-badminton-academy","tag-nkba","tag-sukant-kadam"],"yoast_head":"\n