Saina drops to 9th spot, Sindhu remains 10th-ranked shuttler  

India’s Saina Nehwal on Thursday dropped four points to be ninth, while compatriot PV Sindhu remained in the 10th spot in the Badminton World Federation (BWF) rankings despite getting a silver in the women’s singles competition at the recently-concluded Olympics.

In another bad news for Indian badminton, the women’s doubles pair of Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa dropped four places to the 26th spot following their failure to reach the knock-out stage in the Rio Games.
However, men’s singles shuttler Kidambi Srikanth, who reached the Olympics quarter-finals, jumped a place to be 10th, while Ajay Jayaram improved his 22nd rank by a position.

Saina, the 2012 London Games bronze medallist, failed to come out of the group stage competition at the Rio Games.
And her poor performance led her to move down four places to be ninth as the Rio bronze medallist
In the men’s singles, Srikanth, who took legendary Lin Dan to the task in the quarter-finals, moved into the 10th spot following his impressive show at Rio.

Malaysian Lee Chong Wei, who finished runner-up at Rio to Chen Long, kept his place at the top-ranked shuttler, while Dan was also stagnant at No.3.
In the men’s doubles, the pair of Manu Attri and B. Sumeeth Reddy were stagnant in the 21st spot.