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At $250K Yonex Sunrise Hong Kong Open 2011, (Superseries)

[QF] Saina Nehwal (IND,4) l (7) Tine Baun (DEN,7) 16-21 15-21
[QF] Ajay Jayaram (IND,34) l (1) Chong Wei Lee (MAS,1) 16-21 13-21
[QF] (Q) Gurusaidutt R. M. V. (IND,52) l (2) Long Chen (CHN,2) 13-21 21-23

In the first game Saina was leading 9-6 but from 10-all Tine take control to win it ... In the second game Tine take control from 4-all ... She won 6 pts in a row and kept that lead to scored comfortable win in 29 minutes ... So another title Saina failed to defend this year, so still searching for her first superseries title in 2011 ... Worrying form of Saina.

Long Chen started positively and take 8-2 lead which he kept increasing ... He won the first game easily ... In the second game also Long Chen opened 9-4 lead but this time Guru fought back ... He was 12-18 down but reduced it to 16-18 ... Long Chen had 2 match point at 20-18 but Guru saved those and had a game point at 21-20 ... He failed to convert it and then Long Chen converted 3rd match point to complete victory in 44 minutes ... Very heartening performance by Guru against this top Chinese player.

Lee take early control from 3-all ... Ajay managed to reduce it to 7-8 but after that Lee gave clinical performance to won the first game ... In the second game take 8-2 ealy lead which he kept increasing to complete easy straight games victory in 32 minutes.