PV Sindhu regains World No. 2 spot in BWF rankings

Olympic and world championship silver medallist PV Sindhu has once again regained her world number two status in the latest BWF rankings released today. Sindhu, jumped one spot to stay one spot behind Chinese Taipei’s Tai Tzu Ying, who continues to dominate the rankings.

Saina Nehwal, too climbed one rung to reach the number nine slot. In the men’s singles, Kidambi Srikanth remained static at world no 6, while Sameer Verma jumped five spots to be in 18th position. H.S Prannoy, who skipped the events in Denmark and France, slipped two places to be 17th.

B Sai Praneeth is at the 26th place, while Sourabh Verma jumped two places to reach the 48th spot. Men’s doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty slipped one place to be 25th while women’s doubles pairing of Ashwini Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy improved three spots to be 24th. In mixed doubles, Pranaav Jerry Chopra and Sikki were static at the 21st place.