Saturday, August 26, 2017

Badminton News

At TOTAL BWF World Championships 2017, Glasgow, Scotland

[SF] (4) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,4) bt (9) Chen Yufei (CHN,10) 21-13 21-10
[SF] (12) Saina Nehwal (IND,16) l (7) Nozomi Okuhara (JPN,12) 21-12, 17-21, 10-21

[F] (4) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,4) vs (7) Nozomi Okuhara (JPN,12)

Sindhu has reached into her first World Championship title match against Japanese girl, Nozomi Okuhara ... In the semis, Sindhu scored very dominating win over current Junior World Champion Chen Yufei ... In her ruthless perfomance she didn't gave any chance to Chen ... Now, one match away from World crown.

Saina failed to repeat her 2015 World Championship performance and lost to Okuhara after winning the first game ... After losing the first game Okuhara played patient game and recovered everything Saina played ... This forced to make unforced errors from Saina as she tried to close points with attacking game ... In the third game, Saina was tired and failed to challenge Okuhara ... Still, creditable performance from Saina as she lifted another World Championship medal after post-surgery.

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