Saturday, March 07, 2015

Badminton News

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

[QF] (3) Saina Nehwal (IND,3) bt (5) Yihan Wang (CHN,5) 21-19 21-6

[SF] (3) Saina Nehwal (IND,3) vs Sun Yu (CHN,18)

Really surprising dominating win by Saina against former WR #1 and Saina's nemesis Yihan Wang in straight games ... Considering Saina's poor performance in their previous meetings it was difficult to say Saina was favorite in this match ... In the first game both players were neck to neck till 12-all ... From 12-13 Saina won 6 points consecutively for healthy lead of 18-12 ... After that Yihan tried to catch Saina but Saina kept advantage for winning this game after converting 2nd game point ... After winning the first game Saina started in attacking manner and take 8-0 lead ... This time surprisingly Yihan failed to raise her game and she lost this game and match without much fight ... In the semis Saina is facing another Chinese youngster Sun Yu ... In their last meeting Saina won close match in three games.

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