Badminton News 
Top 10 Indian Badminton Ranking on September 18 2008 -
Womens -
12 NEHWAL Saina 44611
50 MUTATKAR Aditi 20643
74 MURGUNDE Trupti 16246
110 PANDIT Neha 10020
127 VARTAK Gayatri 8930
177 KURIAN Shruti 5080
188 GUTTA Jwala 4530
199 BASUMATARY Bibari 4020
205 Ruth MISHA 3810
206 BALAN Aparna 3720

Mens -
33 ANAND Chetan 30614
35 SRIDHAR Anup 28612
39 BHAT Arvind 27287
57 KASHYAP P 19481
62 PAWAR Anand 18770
99 JAYARAM Ajay 12460
156 VIDYADHAR J B S 6790
173 JADHAV Ankush 5730
198 KANETKAR Nikhil 4590
224 JOLLY Prakash 3500

Saina climbed to her best individual ranking, #12 ... She is now around 9,500 pts away from entering into top 10 badminton players ... Aditi also first time enters into top-50 BWR ... Good performance in New Zealand helped Neha to become India's No. 4 shuttler, #110 her personal best ranking.

In Mens top-3 remained at same position but difference between them is very less so anyone from top-3 can be India's top shuttler with one good performance ... Kashyap and Anand Pawar also climbed to their personal best ranking ... As a winner and a finalist in back to back tournaments in New Zealand helped Ajay to break into top-100 ... Prakash Jolly also impressed in his first 2 internationals and enters into ranking as India's 10th shuttler.
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At $75K Albuquerque Challenger, NM, USA

[R2] RAO Sunitha (IND,178) l (3) DUQUE-MARINO Mariana (COL,108) 63 46 64

Good fighting performance by Sunitha against higher rank opponent.