Thursday, December 15, 2011

Badminton News
At $500K Li Ning BWF World Superseries Finals 2011, Liu Zhou, China

Group B
Saina Nehwal (IND,4) bt Sayaka Sato (JPN,15) 21-16 21-13
Xin Wang (CHN,3) bt Youn Joo Bae (KOR,9) 21-8 13-21 21-13

In the first game Sayaka take early leand and was leading 12-8 ... Saina fought back winning next 6 points and then won 5 points in a row from 16-all to won the first game ... In the second game Sania won 8 points in a row from 4-all to take commanding lead ... Sayaka saved 2 match points but in the end lead was too much for her ... Saina completed win in 37 minutes.

Good win considering this year Saina struggled against Japanese opponents ... So with this second win Saina confirm her place in the semis ... Now she will face local girl Xin Wang for final group standing.

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