MUMBAI (Reuters) - India's Saina Nehwal will replace Olympic champion Li Xuerui as the women's world number one badminton player, ending China's stranglehold at the top of the rankings.
China have long dominated the women's game and the last non-Chinese to be world number one was Denmark's Tine Baun in December 2010.
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