Saturday, October 27, 2012

Badminton News
At $200K French Open 2012, Paris

[QF] (1) Saina Nehwal (IND,4) bt (7) Ratchanok Intanon (THA,10) 22-20 22-20

[SF] (1) Saina Nehwal (IND,4) vs (4) Juliane Schenk (GER,6)

Saina needed her all experience to beat Thai youngster Ratchanok Intanon in 42 minutes ... In the first game Saina opened 5-2 lead which she maintained and then increased ... From 14-19 Ratchanok started fightback ... She won next 4 points to make it 18-19 and then saved 2 game points from 18-20 but Saina converted 3rd game point ... Almost same story repeated in the second game ... Saina take 4-0 lead but Ratchanok caught with her at 5-all ... Then both exchanged lead till 16-all ... THen Saina opened 2 points lead 18-16 ... Saina had 3 match points at 20-17 but this time also Ratchanok saved all 3 match points to make it 20-all ... Again Saina converted 4 match point for hard fought victory ... Next Saina is facing German Juliane Schenk ... Last week in the Danish open final Saina defeated her convincingly.

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