Two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu dropped three spots down within the newest BWF rankings. In keeping with the newest girls’s singles rankings, which had been launched on Tuesday, Sindhu has slipped to No. 15 on the planet. The previous No. 2 has witnessed a substantial decline in her rating because the begin of the yr. She entered the 2023 season ranked seventh on the planet however fell out of the highest 10 in April. In April 2017, the previous world champion attained her career-high place of No. 2 on the planet, as per Olympics.com.

The 27-year-old, who gained the gold medal on the Commonwealth Video games in Birmingham in 2022, has battled together with her type this season after coming back from a protracted harm layoff.

PV Sindhu returned to motion on the Malaysian Open and Indian Open this yr and suffered first-round exits from each tournaments.

Sindhu hasn’t superior previous the second spherical in any of the opposite seven BWF World Tour occasions she’s competed in thus far this yr, besides the Madrid Masters the place she reached the ultimate 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 girls’s singles, adopted by Aakarshi Kashyap (42), Ashmita Chaliha (44) and Malvika Bansod (46).

HS Prannoy, who gained his first BWF World Tour title on the Malaysia Masters in Could, continues to be India’s prime male singles participant and is at present ranked eighth on the planet. Former world No. 1 Kidambi Srikanth is at present ranked twentieth, barely behind Lakshya Sen.

Within the males’s doubles class, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty remained at No. 3, however Gayatri Gopichand and Treesa Jolly fell to No. 17 within the girls’s doubles division.

Rohan Kapoor and N Sikki Reddy, at world No. 33, are the best-ranked Indian pair in combined doubles.