Lucknow: India's ace shuttler Saina Nehwal retained third position in the Badminton World Federation (BWF) women's singles rankings released on Thursday.
Saina missed out on a chance of equalling her best ever ranking of No.2 when she lost in the semi-finals of the World Super Series Finals in China last week and after controversially retiring from the first round of the ongoing K.L.Garg-Syed Modi International India Grand Prix Gold here on Wednesday.
There was a change of guard at the top as reigning Olympic champion Li Xuerui replaced compatriot and current World Champion Wang Yihan as the World No.1. India's P.V. Sindhu dropped a place to 24th.
In the men's singles, London Olympics quarter-finalist Parupalli Kashyap held on to 20th position....
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05:16 PM, Dec 20, 2012
Shenzhen: Chinese medal winners at the London Olympics Li Xuerui and Chen Long won their respective badminton finals at the $500,000 BWF World Super Series Finals here Sunday. Top seed and Olympic champion Li, who beat Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal in the semifinals, won the women's singles title against compatriot third seed Shixian Wang 21-9, 15-4 (retired) in 27 minutes to bag the title and 11,000 ranking points which will...
05:36 PM, Dec 16, 2012
Shenzhen: India's World No.3 shuttler Saina Nehwal ran out of steam in the semi-final against top seed and reigning Olympic champion Li Xuerui of China in the women's singles semifinal of the $500,000 BWF World Super Series Finals here on Saturday. Saina, who started the game in superb fashion, lost to the World No.2 Chinese 20-22, 21-7, 13-21 in 50 minutes in front of a hostile crowd at the China...
05:41 PM, Dec 15, 2012
New Delhi: She is not quite fully there as far recovering from her knee injury is concerned, but London Olympics bronze medallist Saina Nehwal on Wednesday asserted that she would compete in the prestigious World Super series Finals in China next month. "The Super Series in China is coming up. The world's top players will be playing in that competition. I lost in the final last year, so, I am...
10:34 PM, Nov 28, 2012
Indian badminton ace Saina Nehwal lost to Wang Yihan in the summit clash of the World Super Series Finals. ...
10:49 AM, Dec 20, 2011
