Top 5 women’s badminton players in 2017

#3 PV Sindhu

PV Sindhu

2017 was pretty much PV Sindhu’s first consistent season on the Tour. Sindhu’s confidence got a massive boost since her historic silver medal at the Rio Olympics last year and that, in turn, helped her inject a bit of consistency that was earlier missing from her resume.

Sindhu finished the year with three titles, two of which were Superseries, having reached a career-high No. 2 in the ranking chart. The lanky Indian exuded some major improvements in her game, which included sprucing up her backhands and her defence.

That was evident when she played two of the biggest finals of the year at the World Championships and the World Superseries Finals. She succumbed to close three-game defeats in both, but the tenacity and the hunger that she showed definitely augur well for the future.