SHANGHAI (AP) — Ian Poulter temporarily stopped a slide that had him pointed in a direction he has not been in nearly a decade.He has not been out of the top 50 in the world since Sept. 10, 2006.Poulter lost ground on the leaders with a 72-71 weekend in the HSBC Champions, though it still was good enough to tie for sixth. That allowed him to move up four spots in the world ranking to No. 40 going into the Turkish Airlines Open this week.Even so, it was only his third top-10 finish of the year.