{"id":34185,"date":"2017-04-06T13:52:36","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T13:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=34185"},"modified":"2017-04-06T13:52:36","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T13:52:36","slug":"shuttler-pv-sindhu-rises-to-second-spot-in-bwf-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=34185","title":{"rendered":"Shuttler PV Sindhu rises to second spot in BWF rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-34103\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/PV-Sindhi-India-Open.jpg\" alt=\"PV Sindhi India Open\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" width=\"520\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/PV-Sindhi-India-Open.jpg 520w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/PV-Sindhi-India-Open-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/PV-Sindhi-India-Open-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/>New Delhi: Rio Olympic silver medallist Shuttler P.V. Sindhu reached her career best world rankings, grabbing the number two position with 75759 points in the latest Badminton World Federation (BWF) rankings released on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Sindhu, who recently clinched the India Open title defeating Carolina Marin of Spain in the summit clash, moved three places up to number two spot, superseding Japan&#8217;s Akane Yamugachi and thus becoming the second Indian woman to break into the top-five of the world rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Saina Nehwal, who lost in the opening round of the ongoing Malaysia Open, however, moved one place down to ninth spot with 64279 points in the rankings, which is led by Tai Tzu Ying of Chinese Taipei with 87911 points.<\/p>\n<p>Marin remained in third spot with 75664 points.<\/p>\n<p>In the men&#8217;s singles rankings, Ajay Jayaram, who on Thursday defeated Viktor Axelsen of Denmark 9-21, 21-14, 21-19 to move into the quarter-finals of the Malaysia Open, remained the highest ranked Indian on 20th spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-34103\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/PV-Sindhi-India-Open.jpg\" alt=\"PV Sindhi India Open\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" width=\"520\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/PV-Sindhi-India-Open.jpg 520w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/PV-Sindhi-India-Open-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/PV-Sindhi-India-Open-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/>New Delhi: Rio Olympic silver medallist Shuttler P.V. Sindhu reached her career best world rankings, grabbing the number two position with 75759 points in the latest Badminton World Federation (BWF) rankings released on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Sindhu, who recently clinched the India Open title defeating Carolina Marin of Spain in the summit clash, moved three places up to number two spot, superseding Japan&#8217;s Akane Yamugachi and thus becoming the second Indian woman to break into the top-five of the world rankings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[11264,7331,9937,466,1811,21902,925],"class_list":["post-34185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-badminton-badminton","tag-badminton-news","tag-badminton-world-federation","tag-carolina-marin","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-p-v-sindhu","tag-rio-olympic-silver-medallist","tag-saina-nehwal"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Shuttler PV Sindhu rises to second spot in BWF 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=34185\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Shuttler PV Sindhu rises to second spot in BWF 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: Rio Olympic silver medallist Shuttler P.V. 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