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At $250K Indonesia Super Series 2009, Jakarta

[R2] Aditi Mutatkar (IND,42) l Maria Febe Kusumastuti (INA,48) 8-21 5-21
[R2] (6) Saina Nehwal (IND,7) bt Juliane Schenk (GER,17) 18-21 21-7 21-19

[R2] Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) l (1) Eei Hui Chin (MAS)/ Pei Tty Wong (MAS) 9-21 21-19 15-21

Schenk surprisingly gave much tougher fight to Saina than expected ... In first game Saina was up 15-12 but Schenk equaled at 18-all and won next 3 points to won this game ... Saina came back strongly winning second game easily but again they had see-saw battle in third game ... Schenk take early and was leading 14-10 but Saina equaled it at 14-all ... Then she take 20-17 lead, Schenk saved 2 match points but Saina converted 3rd match point to win this match in 46 minutes .. In quarters she is facing Korean #15 Hye Youn Hwang, who scored upset win over WR #5 Chen Wang.

Aditi couldn't produce any fight against Indonesian player and lost in just 23 minutes.

In doubles Jwala and Ashwini produced creditable performance against #1 team.