ANSWER: Saina Nehwal
Explanation:
The Badminton World Federation (BWF) highlighted 5 top players as the first Integrity Ambassadors to promote clean, fair and honourable sport.
India’s ace shuttler Saina Nehwal is one of them.
Denmark’s Christinna Pedersen and Viktor Axelsen, Saina and Japan’s Women’s Doubles pair, Misaki Matsutomo and Ayaka Takahashi were the others.
She became the only female player from India and the overall second Indian player after Prakash Padukone to attain this feat of being World Number 1 in BWF rankings.
She has represented India three times in Olympics, winning bronze in the second appearance.
Know About Saina Nehwal:
- BornL 17 March 1990
- She is a professional badminton singles player from India.
- Nehwal, the former world no. 1, has maintained her world ranking in the top ten since 2009.
- Won over twenty international titles, which include ten Superseries titles.
- In 2015 she was able to attain the world no. 1 ranking.
