Sunday, March 08, 2015

Badminton News

At $500K Yonex All England Open 2015, Birmingham(Superseries Premier)

Women Singles Final
(3) Saina Nehwal (IND,3) l (6) Carolina Marin (ESP,6) 21-16 14-21 7-21

Saina misses big opportunity of lifting All England championship and chance of becoming first Indian woman to lift this title and third Indian title winner after Prakash and Gopichand ... After winning the first game Saina lost her focus and made numerous unforced errors due to Carolina's attacking game which she couldn't cope.

In first game from start Saina opened the lead, 4-2 ... Which she kept increasing 11-6, 15-8 then 18-9 ... Saina had nine game points at 20-11 but Carolina saved five of those before Saina converting sixth game point ... In game two again Saina take early lead 6-1 but Carolina immediately reduced it to 5-6 ... Carolina won 3 points in a row from 9-11 to lead first time in the game 12-11 ... Carolina won 5five points in a row from 12-13 to lead 17-13 ... Again Carolina won four points in a row from 17-14 for winning this second game ... From second game Carolina took control of the match ... In third game Carolina started from her second game performance and took early lead 3-1 then 6-2 ... At break Carolina was leading 11-4 ... From 4-8 Saina lost eight points in a row to fall behind 4-16 ... This was a huge gap in the final game and in title match ... Saina never recovered and lost this title match on first championship point.

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