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Kidambi Srikanth has slipped to the eighth position in the recently-released Badminton World Federation (BWF) rankings. On the other hand, Sameer Verma, Parupalli Kashyap and Harsheel Danni’s rankings have shown improvement on the fresh list released by the global body on Tuesday.

Former junior national champion Harsheel Dani won the 20th Victor Dutch International title on Saturday as he beat Denmark’s Mads Christophersen in a thrilling three-game match. After Kartik Jindal, Prashi Joshi, Utkarsh Arora and Karishma Wadkar bowed out in semis, Dani was India’s only hope.

After Kidambi Srikanth, PV Sindhu, and Saina Nehwal registered easy wins in the pre-quarters, their real test will be coming in the next round as the opponents start to become tougher. The biggest match of the day would Srikanth taking on Momota and Saina playing against Nozomi Okuhara.

India’s strong run in the Singapore Open continued as the big three PV Sindhu, Kidambi Srikanth, and Saina Nehwal registered wins against Mia Blichfeldt, Pornpawee Chochuwong, and Hans-Kristian Solberg Vittinghus respectively. However, Parupalli Kashyap and HS Prannoy bowed out of the tournament.