Prajnesh Gunneswaran achieves career-best ranking of 84

Indian tennis player Prajnesh Gunneswaran has jumped 13 places to a career-high rank of 84 after his terrific show at the Indian Wells. Prajnesh defeated two higher ranked Benoit Paire and world number 18 Nikoloz Basilashvili to register the biggest wins of his career to reach the third round at the ATP Master series event. With these two wins, Prajnesh collected 61 points in the recently released ATP rankings. Yuki, who is nursing a knee injury, slid 36 places to 207. The last time the Delhi player was placed outside the top-200 bracket was in July 2017. The next best in the singles chart were Saketh Myneni and Sasi Kumar Mukund. Mukund did not figure in even top-400 five months back and has shown good progress in this time period. In the WTA rankings, Ankita Raina continues to be India’s top-ranked player at 168 and was followed by Karman Kaur Thandi, who jumped seven places to 203.