Badminton player Saina Nehwal fails to reach Olympics Semi-final
India’s No1 woman badminton player Saina Nehwal could not enter in semi final. Indonesia’s Maria Kristin Yulianti defeated to Indian teenager Saina Nehwal with 28-26, 14-21, 15-21 in a thrilling quarterfinal which was held on Wednesday. A thrilling quarterfinal between India’s no.1 and World no. 15 badminton player Saina Nehwal and 21 ranked Indonesia’s Maria Kristin Yulianti held at the Beijing University of Technology Gymnasium Court, in which Saina failed to enter semi final. Thus her dream to become the first Indian woman to play semi final in Olympic could not come true.
World no. 15 Saina played her natural game and won first set with 28-26 but could not continue her best performance and lost other two set by 14-21, 15-21. Thus India’s badminton challenge ended with Saina Nehwal’s exit from Beijing Olympic. Indian man badminton player Anup Sridhar already has exit from Olympic. The 18-year-old Saina Nehwal was last hope for India to win medal in badminton.
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