Satwiksairaj Rankireddy: India’s star player Satwiksairaj Rankireddy has created a Guinness World Record for the fastest ‘hit’ by a male player in badminton with a smash of 565 kmph. Satwik, who recently won the Indonesia Open Super 1000 title with Chirag Shetty, also broke the more than a decade old record of 493 kmph set by Malaysia’s Tan Boon Hiong in May 2013. In fact, Satwik’s smash was faster than the fastest speed of 372.6 kmph achieved by a Formula One car.
Ten Pearly of Malaysia shines in the women’s category
At the same time, the record of the fastest badminton ‘hit’ in the women’s section was named after Malaysia’s Ten Pearly, who shot at a speed of 438 km per hour. “Yonex is proud to announce that Yonex badminton players Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (India) and Ten Pearly (Malaysia) have achieved the fastest men’s and women’s badminton hits, respectively,” Yonex, a Japanese sports equipment manufacturer, said in a release. With this, a new Guinness World Record has been created.
The record was made on 14 April 2023, but…
Actually, the world record was set on 14 April 2023 and was confirmed by the official judges of Guinness World Records based on the speed measurement results of that day. Satwik did this smash at the Yonex Factory Gymnasium in Soka, Saitama, Japan. It is worth mentioning that India’s star player Satwiksairaj Rankireddy had recently won the title of Indonesia Open Super 1000 along with Chirag Shetty. At the same time, now this player has registered his name in the Guinness World Records.
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