Friday, March 07, 2014

Badminton News

At $400K Yonex All England Open 2014, Birmingham

[R2] (7) Saina Nehwal (IND,7) bt Beiwen Zhang (USA,41) 24-22 18-21 21-19

[QF] (7) Saina Nehwal (IND,7) vs (4) Shixian Wang (CHN,3)

Zhang stretched Saina to fullest in this one hour match ... In the first game Saina failed to convert three game points at 20-18 and 21-20 but then she saved a game point at 21-22 and then converted 4th game point for winning it ... In the second game Zhang take 15-11 lead from 9-11 down and kept that advantage to won it ... In the final game Saina opened 4-2 lead which she kept till most of the part but from 16-19 down Zhang caught her at 19-all ... This time also Saina kept her nerves and won next two points for winning this close match ... Next she is Shixian Wang, against her Saina is having 4-2 win-loss record , though in their last meeting Wang defeated her.

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