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To discuss the rankings of Indian Badminton players similar to the thread we have for tennis.....

Exciting time on the Men's side where a lot of youngsters are rising up in the ranking list......

Quoting jaydeep's post from the 'Indian Badminton Thread' for relevance.....

jaydeep wrote: Women's singles
3 Saina Nehwal
19 P. V. Sindhu (PB)
94 P. C. Thulasi

Men's singles
14 Parupalli Kashyap (PB)
31 Ajay Jayaram
38 R. M. V. Gurusaidutt
40 Sourabh Varma
50 B. Sai Praneeth (PB)
51 Anand Pawar
62 K. Srikanth (PB)
86 H. S. Prannoy

Men's doubles
34 Rupesh Kumar/ Sanave Thomas
42 Tarun Kona/ Arun Vishnu
48 Pranaav Chopra/ Akshay Dewalkar

Women's doubles
25 Jwala Gutta/ Ashwini Ponnappa
61 Aparna Balan/ N. Siki Reddy
71 Pradnya Gadre/ Prajakta Sawant
118 Pradnya Gadre/ Ashwini Ponnappa

Mixed doubles
27 V. Diju/ Jwala Gutta
36 Ashwini Ponnappa/ Tarun Kona
59 Arun Vishnu/ Aparna Balan
78 N. Siki Reddy/ Pranaav Chopra
83 Pradnya Gadre/ Akshay Dewalkar

10-Jan-2013 Rankings

Almost near top-10 for Kashyap. He could have used a better performance at the Korea Open to get into the top-10, but not to be as he lost a close match to Yu Hun (#9)...
Sindhu is also at a career high of 17...
Both Kashyap & Sindhu have been benefited from points flying off from other player's kitties for this week......
AND, Saina will get back to her career high of #2 in next week's rankings........

Men's Singles
11 PARUPALLI Kashyap (Career high)
30 Ajay JAYARAM
38 R. M. V. Gurusaidutt
40 Sourabh VARMA
49 B. Sai Praneeth (Career high)
50 Anand PAWAR
61 K. Srikanth (Career high)
85 H. S. Prannoy

Women's Singles
3 Saina NEHWAL
17 P. V. Sindhu (Career high)
94 P. C. Thulasi

17-Jan-2013 Rankings

As predicted last week, Saina is back at her career best #2......
Kashyap enters top-10 for the first time with a career high ranking of #10. Sindhu also betters her career high with #16 this week........

Men's Singles
10 PARUPALLI Kashyap (Career high)
31 Ajay JAYARAM
39 R. M. V. Gurusaidutt
41 Sourabh VARMA
50 B. Sai Praneeth
51 Anand PAWAR
61 K. Srikanth (Career high)
85 H. S. Prannoy

Women's Singles
2 Saina NEHWAL (Career high)
16 P. V. Sindhu (Career high)
94 P. C. Thulasi

4 Indians hit career highs.....

25-Jan-2013 Rankings

Not sure of the reasons, but the rankings this week are released on a Friday....

Kashyap improves his career best and is at #9...... Hopefully he recovers from his injury and performs well at the All England......

Men's Singles
9 PARUPALLI Kashyap (Career high)
31 Ajay JAYARAM
38 R. M. V. Gurusaidutt
42 Sourabh VARMA
50 B. Sai Praneeth
51 Anand PAWAR
61 K. Srikanth (Career high)
85 H. S. Prannoy

Women's Singles
2 Saina NEHWAL (Career high)
16 P. V. Sindhu (Career high)
94 P. C. Thulasi

Who ever your choice is, as long as the both players can do a very competitive match will be much appreciated than choosing great players but can handled position for finals.






9 PARUPALLI Kashyap (Career high)
41 Sourabh VARMA
50 B. Sai Praneeth
61 K. Srikanth (Career high)
85 H. S. Prannoy

P.V. Sindhu is back in top 10 this week at no.10.

These are the rankings of Indian players in top 50 in world rankings-

Mens singles

•14: Parupalli Kashyap
•24: R.M.V.Gurusaidutt
•26: Ajay Jayaram
•32: K.Srikanth
•34: Anand Pawar
•39: Sai Praneeth
•42: H.S Prannoy
•43: Sourabh Varma

Womens singles

•4: Saina Nehwal
•10: P.V.Sindhu

Mens doubles

•36: Pranaav Jerry Chopra and Akshay Dewalkar
•42: Arun Vishu and Tarun Kona

Womens doubles

•28: Ashwini Ponnappa and Pradnya Gadre
•46: Aparna Balan and Siki Reddy

Mixed doubles

•33: Tarun Kona and Ashwini Ponnappa
•45: Arun Vishnu and Aparna Balan

We are seeing great depth on mens side now with 8 players in top 50 but we need a couple of them to go to top 10 consistently like Saina & Sindhu. Srikanth seems to be the fastest mover upwards.

We need to get something going in doubles. Here, we are worse off then singles unlike tennis.

Yes, we need to improve in doubles to improve our performance in team events such as the Thomas/Uber cups.

Saina slips to World No 7

At this rate, Sindhu will become India's best ranked player in a short time span...

Need better performances from Saina...

Sindhu's recent performances haven't been great either.

Still, she may indeed be better than Saina.

Atithee wrote:Still, she may indeed be better than Saina.

I thought this was conclusively proven to be wrong at present in the Indian Badminton League (or whatever it was called).

The top levels of individual sports are non-transitive (is that the right word?). A beats B & B beats C doesn't ensure that A is better than C.

Sindhu may continue to get better results against the legion of Wangs than Saina does, while continuing to lose mano-a-mano (or womano-a-womano I suppose).