mumbai terming 2018 as a big year top indian shuttler pv sindhu on tuesday said she wants to become the world number one by the end of it after narrowly missing out of the numero uno status last seasonits a big year and next tournament up is the all england championships in birmingham there are also the commonwealth games and asian games i intend to take one tournament at a time l want to see myself as number one by the end of the year sindhu saidthe olympics and world championship silver medallist lost in a pulsating final to japanese rival akane yamaguchi2115 1221 1921 in 94 minutes in the womens singles final of the dubai super series finals to squander a golden chance to attain the number one rankingsindhu also lost to yamaguchis compatriot nozomi okuhara in the world championship final 1921 2220 2022 in august a match that lasted a staggering 110 minutessindhu had lost another 83minute threegame thriller to carolina marin of spain in the match to decide the singles gold at rio in 2016asked about these narrow losses sindhu said she looks at them as learning experiencesits good that i have come till the final its disappointing i had lost some close matches world championship in dubai and the indian open to chinaborn zheng beiwan of usa i have a lot more to learn from my mistakes she saidits just a day it happens and i lost ups and downs will be happening coming to the final and losing by a point or so should not matteramong the three losses last year and this year sindhu singled out the one in glasgow as the most disappointingeach tournament is different mostly the world championship i would say it was a very long match as compared to these others one of the longest for melooking ahead sindhu said the key was to keep fit both mentally and physically to figure in the mandatory 15 tournaments that each player needs to play every yearwe need to pick and choose need to be mentally and physically fit the schedule is out we cant play if we are ill or not completely fitabout chances of being penalised by the world body bwf for not figuring in the mandated number of tournaments sindhu said its there monetary fines but the main thing is you need to keep yourself fit its just that you have to see which tournaments to playeach tournament is equally important some of the tournaments super series premier and super series are the tournaments we have to playshe also wished that the change in the service rule was introduced at the beginning of this year rather than at next months all england championshipsi actually felt it should have started from the start of the year rather than from a prestigious tournament like the all england in order to get used to it she saidshe also preferred the current 21point systemthey were saying point system might change to bestoffive