Saturday, April 04, 2015

Badminton News

At $500K Maybank Malaysia Open 2015, Kuala Lumpur (Superseries Premier)

[R1] (3) Saina Nehwal (IND,2) l (1) Xuerui Li (CHN,3) 21-13 17-21 20-22

Once again Xuerui beats Saina in topsy-turvy match to tell Saina that though she is WR #1 but still Xuerui is boss in their one to one match ... Saina started as WR#1 and from 5-6 she won next 6 points to lead 11-6 and after that Saina kept lead for winning first game ... In second game Xuerui take 13-10 lead from 9-10 ... Xuerui kept lead though Saina came near 16-17 then 17-18 but Xuerui won this game as Saina committed unforced errors ... In decider Xuerui took 4-1 lead but Saina caught her and then took 12-7 lead ... Xuerui won next 5 points to caught Saina at 12-all and I think that was turning point of the match ... After that both players were neck to neck ... Saina saved one match point at 19-20 but failed to save next one ... Saina still need to work on her mental state in late stages of match for such crunch match situation ... Overall seeing improvement Saina's game.

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