Sunday, June 26, 2011

Badminton News
At $600K Indonesia Open Superseries Premier 2011, Jakarta

[F] (4) Saina Nehwal (IND,4) l (3) Yihan Wang (CHN,3) 21-12 21-23 14-21

Saina and Yihan matched eachother early in the first game ... Saina take lead from 5-all and increased to 9-6 but Yihan made it 9-all ... Saina won next 4 pts to take lead and then kept increasing to won this game easily ... In the second game Yihan take 3 pts lead from 7-all ... Saina reduced the difference to 10-11 ... Again Yihan increased lead to 12-15 ... Nut Saina fought back from 16-19 down ... She won next 4 pts to gave herself a championship point ... But Yihan saved that and converted 2nd game point to won the second set ... In the decider from 4-all Saina take 7-4 lead but Yihan managed to take lead from 6-9 due to unforced errors from Saina ... Yihan won 6 pts in a row to take 9-12 lead ... Saina made it 12-all but Yihan again take 6 pts cushion with 12-18 lead ... In end that was a too big difference for Saina to catch ... Yihan won comfortably to captured this Premier tournament title.

Saina failed to complete hat-trick of Indonesian titles but still good performance ... She had a chance to finished match in 2 games but then Yihan proved strong for her.

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