New Delhi [India], March 29 (ANI): Indian shuttler and Olympic medalist PV Sindhu dropped out of the highest 10 of the ladies’s singles Badminton World Federation (BWF) rankings for the primary time since November 2016.
The two-time Olympic medalist, who had gained silver within the 2016 Rio Olympics and Bronze in Tokyo 2020 Olympics, fell down two locations to the eleventh spot on Tuesday, as per Olympics.com.
Sindhu made it to the highest ten for the primary time in August 2013 and has been amongst the elite shuttlers worldwide since November 2016. The former world champion’s finest rating is world quantity 2 on April 2017.
The 27-year-old has struggled for type this season since her comeback from an damage following her gold medal triumph in ladies’s singles competitors on the Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham.
She lately parted methods along with her South Korean coach Park Tae-sang and made her return to the court docket on the Malaysian Open and Indian Open this yr. However, these two outings had been extraordinarily forgettable as she bowed out of each competitions within the first spherical itself.
She was part of the bronze medal-winning Indian staff on the Badminton Asia Mixed Team Championship 2023 again in February at Doha. Later, she skipped Thailand Masters, Indonesia Masters and German Open as nicely.
Her poor type continued on the All England Open 2023, the place she crashed out after the primary spherical after a loss to China’s Zhang Yi Man in straight video games. She additionally didn’t defend her ladies’s singles title on the Swiss Open 2023, solely making it to the second spherical.
She might be seen in motion at Madrid Masters 2023 on Wednesday, going through Switzerland’s Jenjira Stadelmann within the spherical of 32. She had beat her Stadelmann on the Swiss Open 2023.
In the boys’s singles participant, HS Prannoy retained his standing because the top-ranked participant within the nation, positioned at quantity eight within the males’s singles competitors whereas Kidambi Srikanth slipped to twenty first place. Commonwealth Games champion in males’s singles, Lakshya Sen is at quantity 25.
The star Indian males’s doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty have solidified their place at world quantity six after their title win on the Swiss Open 2023. The ladies’s doubles pair of Gayatri Gopichand and Treesa Jolly additionally stored intact their world quantity 18 rank. (ANI)