Aakarshi Kashyap is a women's singles shuttler from India, who won the National Games 2022, a silver at the CWG this year, and won Bangladesh and Maldives International. Courtesy of her performances this year, she attained her career-best ranking of world no.32 and is looking good to better that.

Israeli Svetlana Zilberman, 64, won her first-round Mixed Doubles match at the BWF Badminton World Championships 2022 in Tokyo, partnering with her son Misha Zilberman, to create history. The duo went on to beat World No. 51 pair from Egypt, Doha Hany and Adham Hatem Elgamal, in straight games.