Two-time Olympic medalist PV Sindhu dropped 3 spots in the most recent BWF ratings launched on Tuesday. The ace Indian shuttler is recently ranked No. 15 on the planet.
The former no. 2 has witnessed a substantial decline in her rating because the get started of the yr. She entered the 2023 season ranked 7th on the planet however fell out of the highest 10 in April.
In April 2017, the previous international champion attained her career-high place of No. 2 on the planet.
The 27-year-old, who will win the gold medal on the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham in 2022, has battled along with her shape this season after coming back from a prolonged damage layoff.
Sindhu returned to motion on the Malaysian Open and Indian Open this yr and suffered first-round exits from each tournaments.
Sindhu hasn’t complex previous the second one around in any of the opposite seven BWF World Tour occasions she’s competed in up to now this yr, excluding the Madrid Masters the place she reached the general and a top-four end on the Malaysia Masters.
Sindhu’s fellow Olympic medal-winner Saina Nehwal remained rooted to the thirtieth place within the ladies’s singles, adopted by way of Aakarshi Kashyap (42), Ashmita Chaliha (44) and Malvika Bansod (46).
HS Prannoy, who received his first BWF World Tour identify on the Malaysia Masters in May, is still India’s height male singles participant and is recently ranked 8th on the planet. Former international no. 1 Kidambi Srikanth is recently ranked twentieth, quite in the back of Lakshya Sen.
In the boys’s doubles class, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty remained at No. 3, however Gayatri Gopichand and Treesa Jolly fell to No. 17 within the ladies’s doubles department.
Rohan Kapoor and N Sikki Reddy, at international no. 33, are the best-ranked Indian pair in combined doubles.