Saturday, August 30, 2014

Badminton News

At Li Ning BWF World Championships 2014, Copenhagen, Denmark

[QF] (7) Saina Nehwal (IND,7) l (1) Xuerui Li (CHN,1) 15-21 15-21
[QF] (11) P V Sindhu (IND,12) bt (2) Shixian Wang (CHN,2) 19-21 21-19 21-15

[SF] (11) P V Sindhu (IND,12) vs (9) Carolina Marin (ESP,10)

Sindhu shows super fitness to beat WR #2 Shixian Wang in comeback win after 86 minutes match ... In the first game Sindhu take 11-4 lead but with better net game Shixian caught her at 15-all ... From 17-18 Shixian won next 3 points and converted 2nd game point to win this game ... In the second game Shixian was leading 6-3 and then 16-12 ... She was 5 points away from a win when Sindhu won 8 points in a row and had 4 game points at 20-16 ... Shixian saved 3 game points but Sindhu converted 4th game point for taking match in the decider ... In the third game Sindhu was leading 5-2 before Shixian made it 5-all ... After that both players were neck to neck till 15-all and from here Sindhu won 6 points in a row to complete memorable win ... With that Sindhu become first Indian player to win 2 World championships medals ... In the semis Sindhu is facing Spanish girl Carolina Marin, Marin defeated Sindhu comfortably in their previous meeting in June 2014.

Other hand Saina fail to raise her game against WR #1 Xuerui Li, who defeated Saina convincingly in 46 minutes.

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