Riding on her Swiss Open title triumph, ace Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal has regained the number three place in the latest world rankings. Saina had missed a couple of tournaments early in the year because of a nagging ligament injury and later suffered early exits from the Korean Open and the All EnglandChampionships. But, she notched up her first title of the season in Switzerland last week. Ahead of the 21-year-old Indian, are Shixian Wang who is World Number One, and Yihan Wang who is world number two. The Swiss Open title was Saina's third Grand Prix Gold title win after Chinese Taipei in 2008 and the Indian Open in 2010. Saina has also won four Super Series finals in Indonesia (twice), Singapore and Hong Kong over the last twoyears. In men's singles, Commonwealth Games bronze medallist P Kashyap was at the 21st place, while Ajay Jayaram moved to 28th. Anand Pawar and Arvind Bhat are at 42nd and 45th spot respectively. Commonwealth Games gold medal-winning women's doubles pair of Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa dropped one place to 19th spot, while Jwala and V Diju slipped two spots to 18th in mixed doubles. In men's doubles, Rupesh Kumar and Sanave Thomas jumped seven places to be placed just outside the top 20 bracket at 21st place.
News On AIR | March 25, 2011 8:21 PM
Saina regains 3rd rank