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At Yonex Sunrise BWF World Championships - 09, Hyderabad, India

[R3] (8) Diju Valiyaveetil (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) bt (12) Robert Mateusiak (POL)/ Nadiezda Kostiuczyk (POL) 21-11 22-20
[R3] (15) Chetan Anand (IND,15) l (6) Sony Dwi Kuncoro (INA,6) 16-21 16-21
[R3] (6) Saina Nehwal (IND,6) bt (10) Petya Nedelcheva (BUL,13) 18-21 21-18 21-10

[QF] (8) Diju Valiyaveetil (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) vs (2) Nova Widianto (INA)/ Liliyana Natsir (INA)
[QF] (6) Saina Nehwal (IND,6) vs (2) Lin Wang (CHN,2)

Our first match on court was MXD, Diju and Jwala started well and easily won first game against Polish pair ... In second game also they started positively and moving towards easy victory ... But suddenly Polish pair improved their game and our pair started to make few errors ... Both were equalled ar 18-all, Diju and Jwala won next 2 points but Polish pair saved both match points ... Indian pair managed to convert 3rd match point to scored straight games victory to moved into semis.

Against Chetan Indonasian Sony Dwi Kuncoro gave very clinical performance ... In both games Chetan and Sony were neck to neck but in end Sony excellently played crucial points to scored victory.

Saina was dominating from the start ans she was dictating the game ... But due to lapse in concentration she started to make unforced errors and that gave Petya chance to fightback in the game ... Saina was leading 18-16 but lost next 5 points to lose firsr game ... Second game also started same like first one, Saina was dominating her Bulgarian opponents and moving towards comfortably capturing second game but from 18-11 again due to loss of concentration she started to make unforced errors and misjudgement of line calls ... Petya won next 7 points to came near of 3 points of upset victory but Saina hold her nerves and won next 3 points to captured second game ... Third game also wasn't different from first 2 ... Saina take control of the match and lead 11-3 at side change ... But again due to lapse in concentration after side change she lost next 5 points but this time Saina didn't take long to back in match to comfortably won third game ... This match was going on for 57 minutes and Saina didn't look tired in third game.