New Delhi: Indian shuttlers Saina Nehwal and PV Sindhu retained their women's singles rankings in the list released by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) on Thursday.
Saina is currently at No. 2 while Sindhu, with her win in Malaysia last week, stayed put at 13th.
Parupalli Kashyap is the highest ranked Indian male shuttler at World No. 11 while RMV Gurusaidutt pipped Ajay Jayaram to be the second best Indian at 27th. Mumbai's Jayaram dropped three places to 30th.
Sourabh Verma and Anand Pawar both dropped a place each to 36th and 43rd, respectively, while K Srikkanth jumped five places to enter the top-50 for the first time at 47....
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04:17 PM, May 09, 2013
New Delhi: After achieving a career-high of World No.6 last week, Parupalli Kashyap dropped out of the men's singles top-10 in the Badminton World Federation (BWF) rankings released Thursday. Due to a first round exit at the recently concluded India Open, Kashyap dropped five places to be ranked 11. But on the positive side, a brilliant performance by Indian shuttlers has led seven of them to be ranked in top-55...
05:31 PM, May 02, 2013
New Delhi: World No.2 Saina Nehwal retained her place in the latest Badminton World Federation (BWF) women's singles rankings released on Thursday. City-mate P.V. Sindhu currently playing in the Badminton Asia Championships in Taipei also kept her 16th place. London Olympics quarter-finalist Parupalli Kashyap, Mumbai's Ajay Jayaram and Sourabh Verma also retained their positions in the men's singles rankings. While Kashyap is at a career-best No.7, Jayaram and Verma are...
04:18 PM, Apr 18, 2013
New Delhi: London Olympics quarter-finalist Parupalli Kashyap jumped to a career-best ranking of World No.7 in the Badminton World Federation (BWF) rankings released on Thursday. The Hyderabadi jumped a place, overtaking Chinese Chen Jin, to be in the top-7 in the men's singles rankings while Mumbai's Ajay Jayaram retained his ranking of 30th. In the women's singles, Olympic bronze medallist Saina Nehwal also kept her No.2 position behind Olympic champion...
04:29 PM, Apr 11, 2013
Gurusaidutt notched up a hard-fought 21-14, 18-21, 21-19 win over Suppanyu Avihingsanon at the Australian Open. ...
02:52 PM, Apr 03, 2013
Ajay Jayaram, R M V Gurusaidutt and Anand Pawar Tuesday advanced to the second round of the men's singles event at the Australian Open Grand Prix Gold. ...
10:52 PM, Apr 02, 2013
Saina, who turns 23 on March 17, was overtaken by World Champion Yihan Wang in the women's singles rankings. ...
05:18 PM, Mar 07, 2013
In mixed doubles, Indian pair of Arun Vishnu and Aparna Balan reached the main draw. ...
12:58 PM, Feb 27, 2013
New Delhi: London Olympics quarterfinalist Parupalli Kashyap jumped three places in the Badminton World Federation (BWF) men's singles rankings to be placed at 20. The 26-year-old Kashyap, who lost in the second round of Hong Kong Open Super Series on Thursday, is currently a notch lower than his best world ranking of 19. However, Mumbai's Ajay Jayaram, who hasn't had a great run in the Super Series calendar this year,...
02:15 PM, Nov 23, 2012
New Delhi: Indian challenge ended at the Japan Super Series following the defeats of shuttlers PV Sindhu and Ajay Jayaram in the women's and men's singles pre-quarterfinals, respectively in Tokyo on Thursday. Sindhu, who broke into the top 20 ranking on Thursday, fought for 52 minutes before suffering a 21-10 12-21 18-21 loss to fourth seed Yeon Ju Bae at the Tokyo Yoyogi Gymnasium. In men's singles, Jayaram also failed...
08:02 PM, Sep 20, 2012
New Delhi: Deserving athletes have sometimes failed to make it to the Olympics and others have found themselves there by quirk of fate. Indian badminton star Parupalli Kashyap is one of those to qualify for the London Games following an unexpected twist and he thanks his stars for it. There is that famous instance of legendary American Jesse Owens making history at the Berlin Olympics when many thought his fellow-sprinter...
03:33 PM, Jul 24, 2012
Saina has reached into the quaterfinals of Malaysian Open tournment. ...
06:29 PM, Jun 25, 2009
