Indian“Shuttler” Saina Nehwal was ranked
second in the world in the year 2010.
India's top-ranked junior Shuttler Aakarshi Kashyap won U-17 and U-19
singles titles at junior Nationals in Guwahati.
Who has become the first woman Shuttler to win the women's singles World Badminton
Championships for a third time?
For India,
it still is a historic edition since for the first time country's Shuttler are returning with two medals.
Indian Shuttler Kidambi Srikanth has been adjudged as the Sportsperson of the Year for 2018
by the Sports Illustrated India magazine.
She is also the joint-most successful women's singles Shuttler at the world meet, having won 5 medals in just 6 appearances.
Mumbai: Star India Shuttler P V Sindhu today said
she wants to change the colour of her Olympic medal from silver to gold at the 2020 Tokyo Games.
Indian Shuttler Ajay Jayaram had to be content
with a runner-up at the Vietnam Open after losing the final to Shesar Hiren Rhustavito of Indonesia in Ho Chi Minh City.
As per the recently released BWF(Badminton World Federation) Rankings 2019,
World Champion women's Shuttler PV Sindhu(24)
has slipped a rank to 6th due to poor performance in the last two weeks but Parupalli Kashyap(33) has benefited from a good performance and reached 25th position.
He is the fourth Malaysian player after Rashid Sidek, Roslin Hashim and Wong Choong Hann to achieve such a ranking(since official rankings were first kept in the 1980s),
and is the only Malaysian Shuttler to hold the number one ranking for more than a year.