Friday, January 11, 2013

Badminton News
At $1M Victor Korea Open 2013, Seoul (Super Series Premier)

[QF] (3) Saina Nehwal (IND,3) l Li Han (CHN,26) 14-21 21-15 12-21

Saina missed big opportunity of capturing this biggest prize money event in Korea as top 2 seed Chinese were out in the first round due to injury ... She had disappointing loss against Chinese Li Han in 59 minutes.

In the first game from 3-all Saina take couple of points lead, 5-3 then 7-4 ... Li Han made it 7-all and then take control from 7-8 ... Li Han won 4 points in a row and then kept increasing the lead for winning the first game ... In the second game Saina started with 4-0 lead but Li Han caught with her at 6-all ... Then Saina won 5 points in a row ... After taking control of the game Saina also won the second game easily ... In the decider Saina started with 2-0 but from 3-all Li Han take control of the game ... She opened with 5 points lead at 8-3 ... After that Li Han didn't give any chance to Saina for fightback ... Saina managed to reduce lead to 2 points at 11-13 but again Li Han won next 4 points and won the match winning 4 points in a row.

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