{"id":1025,"date":"2014-11-20T15:57:59","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T15:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/?p=1025"},"modified":"2014-11-20T15:57:59","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T15:57:59","slug":"saina-srikhanth-rise-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/?p=1025","title":{"rendered":"Saina, Srikhanth rise in rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/saina.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1026 aligncenter\" alt=\"saina\" src=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/saina-300x186.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/saina-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/saina.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>New Delhi, Nov 20 (IANS)<\/strong>\u00a0Riding on their recent China Open title victories in Fuzhou, India&#8217;s Saina Nehwal and Kidambi Srikanth rose up the ladder in the latest Badminton World Federation (BWF) rankings released Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>While Olympic bronze medallist Saina jumped a place to No.4 in women&#8217;s singles, Srikanth, who defeated two-time Olympic champion Lin Dan in the final Sunday, made a leap of six places in the men&#8217;s singles rankings to be positioned at No.10, his highest ever ranking.<\/p>\n<p>Based on consistent performances in recent tournaments, H.S. Prannoy also made a rise of three places to be ranked No.24, his best ever ranking, while Parupalli Kashyap retained his No.17 position.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, two-time World Championship bronze medallist P.V. Sindhu stayed No.10 in the women&#8217;s singles rankings. Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa also moved up a place to No.19 in women&#8217;s doubles.<\/p>\n<div id=\"AdnBottom\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Nov 20 (IANS)\u00a0Riding on their recent China Open title victories in Fuzhou, India&#8217;s Saina Nehwal and Kidambi Srikanth rose up the ladder in the latest Badminton World Federation (BWF) rankings released Thursday. While Olympic bronze medallist Saina jumped a place to No.4 in women&#8217;s singles, Srikanth, who defeated two-time Olympic champion Lin Dan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions\/1027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}