Ace Indian badminton player Saina Nehwal regained the number three ranking in the latest world ranking released by the Badminton World Federation (BFW) in March 2011. She had suffered early exits from the Korean Open and the All England Championships. However she went on to win the Swiss Open, her first victory in 2011.
Saina currently has 69721.2637 points to her credit and is behind Shixian Wang (83506.4) and Yihan Wang (73988.9106) at one and two respectively.
The Swiss Open title was her third Grand Prix Gold title win after Chinese Taipei (2008) and the Indian Open (2010). She has also won four Super Series finals in Indonesia (twice), Singapore and Hong Kong over the last two years.
In men's singles, Commonwealth Games bronze medallist P Kashyap was at the 21st place with 38415.2559 points, while Ajay Jayaram moved to 28th. Anand Pawar and Arvind Bhat are at 42nd and 45th spot respectively. In men's doubles, Rupesh Kumar and Sanave Thomas jumped seven places to be placed at 21st place.
Commonwealth Games gold medal-winning women's doubles pair of Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa dropped one place to 19th spot. Jwala and V Diju slipped two spots to 18th in mixed doubles.
Badminton World Federation (BWF) is the international governing body for the sport of badminton.The body was first founded in 1934 as the International Badminton Federation with nine member nations (Canada, Denmark, England, France, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Scotland and Wales). The BWF has since expanded to 165 member nations around the world. It was decided to adopt the new name Badminton World Federation (BWF) at the Extraordinary General Meeting in Madrid on 24 September 2006.
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