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#2 Prakash Padukone\'s rise to World Number one
Following a highly productive 1980 season, when he won three titles including the All England Open Badminton Championship, Prakash Padukone added yet another feather to his cap, when he reached the World Number one ranking.
Padukone was the first Indian to attain the top ranking in badminton. The following year, Padukone went on to win the inaugural edition of the Badminton World Cup held in Kuala Lumpur. In November 1981, he won the first ever Indian open prize-money tournament, the Indian Masters (which is now the Indian Open) in Pune.
More success followed in the ensuing years, as he went on to win the Dutch Open and Hong Kong Open in 1982 while finishing with the bronze at the World Championships in 1983.
He called time on his glittering career in 1989. In 1994, he founded the badminton academy in Bangalore, an institution which counts Pullela Gopichand among its alumni.
