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At $200K French Super Series 2009, Paris

[QF] (6) Diju Valiyaveetil (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) l (2) Nova Widianto (INA)/ Liliyana Natsir (INA) 21-6 20-22 10-21

[QF] (8) Saina Nehwal (IND,8) l (1) Lin Wang (CHN,3) 21-15 11-21 15-21

Saina started positively against Lin Wang taking 5-0 early lead and managed to kept 2/3 points lead through out game ... Saina won first game comfortably in just 15 mins.

But second game was different story as Lin take control from the start and Saina was trying to catch her ... Soon Lin take 10-2 lead and won second game in 14 mins.

Lin kept her momentum in third game and take early lead from 2-all ... At turn over Lin take control of the game with 11-6 lead ... Saina tried but Lin Wang was too strong showing why she was WR #1 and she finished match in her favor in 49 mins.

Diju and Jwala started strongly winning first game without losing much sweat ... They had chance in second game after leading 6-2 but Indonasian pair came back strongly to won this closely fought game ... In third game they didn't give any chance to Indian pair to win match in 42 mins.