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JE Sports Desk: Indian shuttler Satwiksairaj Rankireddy has bagged the Guinness World Record for the fastest hit by a male badminton player with a whopping 565 kmph smash.

Satwik broke the previous record of Malaysian Tan Boon Heong which he achieved in 2013 with a smash of 493 kmph. Indian shuttler's smash was also faster than the fastest recorded speed of a Formula 1 car -- 372.6 kmph.

Recently, Satwik claimed the men's doubles title in the Indonesia Open with his partner Chirag Shetty.

Malaysia's Tan Pearly set the Guinness world record for the fastest female badminton hits with a remarkable speed of 438 km/h (about 272 mph).

"Yonex is proud to announce that Yonex badminton athletes, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND) and Tan Pearly (MAS), have set new Guinness world records title for the fastest male and female badminton hits," the Japanese sports equipment manufacturing company said in a release.

"Since the previous Guinness world records title for the fastest badminton hit was recorded in May 2013, this means that Rankireddy broke the record for the first time in more than a decade."

The world record attempts were achieved on April 14, 2023, and were verified by official judges from the Guinness world records based on the speed measurement results from that day.

Satwik's smash was conducted in a controlled environment at the Yonex factory gymnasium in Soka, Saitama, Japan.

(With PTI inputs)