Spanish badminton continues to break the mold. This time it is because Dani Franco has risen to number 1 in the world junior doubles ranking. This is a historic milestone, since the man from Granada is the first Spanish male athlete to reach the top of the world doubles rankings, after Lucía Rodrígues achieved the same achievement just two months ago.
in the top positions del ranking We can also find another Spaniard, the Galician Rodrigo Sanjurjo, who is 16th in the world.
It should be remembered that the Andalusian and his partner Rubén García have recently won silver in the men’s doubles at the Junior Euro Championship, a competition in which they also won bronze in the team event. This duo from Granada also shone in the Junior World Championships held in Santander, in which they helped the Spanish team reach the quarterfinals in the team competition. In addition, the Franco-García tandem also managed to reach the quarterfinals in the individual competition.
A diamond in the rough
Dani Franco is one of the great promises of Spanish badminton, as he stands out in both singles and doubles. Proof of this is that at the end of 2022 he was proclaimed Junior national champion. In addition, he is a regular at the doubles concentrations that take place at the CAR in Madrid with the FESBA staff specialist Diemo Ruhnow.
What’s more, the Andalusian is one of the protagonists of the documentary ‘Spanish badminton is worth double’, which precisely shows the brilliant evolution of Spanish couples in the last year.
