#1 Lakshya Sen
The 18-year-old shuttler Lakshya Sen has demonstrated sparks time and again, that he could be India’s next World No. 1 after Prakash Padukone and Pullela Gopichand. He became the No. 1 in the BWF World Junior ranking. Lakshya again achieved the same feat last year when he was crowned the Asian Junior Champion after he beat the top-seeded World No. 1 Kunlavut Vitidsarn in the final. He also participated in the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics and settled for a silver medal. Recently, he won his maiden BWF World Tour title after winning the Dutch Open men’s singles tournament. Besides, he won the SaarLorLux Open, a BWF Tour Super 100 event, in Germany. He won his fourth title in the Scottish Open last month, with an impressive victory against Brazil’s Ygor Coelho in what was a summit clash.
