Sindhu cracks top five

Olympic silver medallist PV Sindhu achieved another high in her career as she became the second Indian woman to break into the top-5 of world rankings.

Former world No.1 Saina Nehwal is only other Indian woman to achieve this honour. The lanky shuttler from Hyderabad, who broke into the top-10 in 2013 achieved her career-best ranking of No.5 in the rankings released by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) on Thursday.

Sindhu was delighted and said No.1 rank remains her goal. “I’m really very happy for achieving a career high rank of No.5,” Sindhu told TOI. “When I started playing in 2016 I never thought I would break into top-5 within a year. This is quite unexpected,” she added.