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Badminton News: Current Women’s Singles World No. 1 Ratchanok Intanon of Thailand Likely to be Relegated to Second-Best

Ritz Agranum   |

Apr 29, 2016 02:43 PM EDT

Malaysia's current top woman player Ratchanok Intanon's world No.1 status is likely to be short-lived after her stunning 21-17 16-21 17-21 loss to the unseeded Sayaka Sato of Japan, forcing the fourth-seeded Thai to crash out in the second round of the 2016 Dong Feng Citroen Badminton Asia Championships in Wuhan, China on Thursday.