{"id":11682,"date":"2012-11-17T04:15:54","date_gmt":"2012-11-17T04:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=11682"},"modified":"2012-11-17T04:15:54","modified_gmt":"2012-11-17T04:15:54","slug":"saina-retains-her-third-spot-in-world-badminton-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=11682","title":{"rendered":"Saina retains her third spot in world badminton rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-3473\" style=\"margin-right: 6px; margin-left: 6px; float: left;\" alt=\"sainanehwal\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/sainanehwal.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/sainanehwal.jpg 300w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/sainanehwal-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>New Delhi:<\/strong> India\u2019s Saina Nehwal with 82,112 points hung to her third place in the Badminton World Federation (BWF) women\u2019s rankings, which was released on Friday. Wang Yihan of China leads the chart with 93,233 points and is followed by her team-mate Li Xuerui with 83,227 points.<\/p>\n<p>The next Indian on the table was P.V. Sindhu, who was placed at 25th position.\n<\/p>\n<p>In the men\u2019s section, Parupalli Kashyap and Ajay Jayaram also held on to 23rd and 27th positions, respectively. Sourabh Verma dropped a place to 33. In the men\u2019s doubles, K.T. Rupesh Kumar and Sanave Thomas gained a place to be 27th.<\/p>\n<p>In women\u2019s doubles, Jwala and Ashwini Ponnappa are ranked 21st while in mixed doubles Jwala is 19th with V. Diju.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-3473\" style=\"margin-right: 6px; margin-left: 6px; float: left;\" alt=\"sainanehwal\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/sainanehwal.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/sainanehwal.jpg 300w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/sainanehwal-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>New Delhi:<\/strong> India\u2019s Saina Nehwal with 82,112 points hung to her third place in the Badminton World Federation (BWF) women\u2019s rankings, which was released on Friday. Wang Yihan of China leads the chart with 93,233 points and is followed by her team-mate Li Xuerui with 83,227 points.<\/p>\n<p>The next Indian on the table was P.V. Sindhu, who was placed at 25th position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[7331,3839,5710,925,5923],"class_list":["post-11682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-latest","tag-badminton-world-federation","tag-li-xuerui","tag-pv-sindhu","tag-saina-nehwal","tag-wang-yihan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Saina retains her third spot in world badminton rankings - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=11682\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Saina retains her third spot in world badminton rankings - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"New Delhi: India\u2019s Saina Nehwal with 82,112 points hung to her third place in the Badminton World Federation (BWF) women\u2019s rankings, which was released on Friday. 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