Ace Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal [ Images ] on Thursday took a giant stride towards realising her goal of becoming the world's numero uno player as she jumped three places to a career-best third in the latest international rankings.

Saina's rise follows back-to-back title triumphs at the India [ Images ] Open Grand Prix [ Images ] and the Singapore Open Super Series respectively.

By virtue of the consecutive titles earlier this month, Saina, with 64791.2637 points, made a significant upward movement in the chart and is just behind Chinese duo of Yihan Wang and Xin Wang.

Saina's previous best ranking was a fifth position which she attained in March this year after becoming the first Indian woman to reach the semi-finals of the prestigious All England [ Images ] Super Series Championships.

However, she dropped to the sixth position in the subsequent weeks.

Saina is presently playing in the Indonesia Open and is well on course for a hat-trick of titles after reaching the quarterfinals of the Super Series event.

In the men's ranking, the Indian trio of Chetan Anand [ Images ], P Kashyap and Arvind Bhatt moved up a rung to the 16th, 27th and 28th spot respectively.