Battling an inconsistent shape, double Olympic medalist PV Sindhu on Tuesday slipped 5 puts to global quantity 17 in the most recent BWF global scores.
Ever since getting back from a five-month lengthy harm layoff, Sindhu has struggled to thread in combination a sequence of wins in per week, leading to a title-less streak this season.
A former global quantity 2 Sindhu, who had suffered a rigidity fracture on her ankle right through her title-winning run on the 2022 Commonwealth Games, recently has 49,480 issues from 14 tournaments.
This is her lowest score in over a decade. The ultimate time she was once ranked seventeenth was once in January, 2013. She has been within the most sensible 10 since 2016, having reached a career-best global quantity 2 in April, 2016.
Sindhu will hope she reveals her footing temporarily within the Olympic qualification length which leads to April subsequent 12 months, particularly upon getting the products and services of Indonesian trainer Muhammad Hafiz Hashim, a former All England champion.
The 2019 World Champion, Sindhu had reached the general of the Madrid Spain Masters, her very best end this season. She registered a semifinal end at Malaysia Masters and Canada Open however made a quarterfinal go out within the subsequent tournament at the USA Open. She is now in Korea for an ideal 500 match.
HS Prannoy additionally slipped a spot to global quantity 10, whilst Lakshya Sen and Kidambi Srikanth have been solid at twelfth and twentieth spots respectively.
Saina Nehwal slumped 5 puts to global quantity 36.
Men’s doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty stay India’s best-placed shuttlers at global quantity 3.
Among others, Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand additionally misplaced a place to be on the nineteenth place in ladies’s doubles, whilst there was once no Indian within the most sensible 25 in combined doubles.
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