The Hyderabadi jumped a place, overtaking Chinese Chen Jin, to be in the top-7 in the men’s singles rankings while Mumbai’s Ajay Jayaram retained his ranking of 30th.

In the women’s singles, Olympic bronze medallist Saina Nehwal also kept her No 2 position behind Olympic champion Li Xuerui while rising shuttler PV Sindhu, who beat Li last year, also retained her No 16 place.u00a0

Parupalli Kashyap