Badminton is a killing sport, need rest before All England Championship: Saina Nehwal
Other Sports | January 31, 2018 18:02 ISTSaina Nehwal wants time to train for the All England Championship to be held at Birmingham from March 14 to 18.
Saina Nehwal wants time to train for the All England Championship to be held at Birmingham from March 14 to 18.
Prannoy looked uncomfortable as he took the court against compatriot Shreyansh Jaiswal and handed over the match to his younger colleague 4-21 6-21.
Srikanth will look to return back stronger when he will open his India Open campaign against Hong Kong's Lee Cheuk Yiu on Wednesday.
Saina, who had clinched the India Open Super Series in 2015, has made a superb start to the new season as she reached the finals of Indonesia Masters after recovering from an ankle injury and she would be one of the favourites this week.
Saina, who is coming back from an ankle injury, failed to lift the veil of deception put by Tai Tzu and went down 9- 21, 13-21 in 27 minutes in a completely lop-sided final.
Saina, who now leads the head-to-head tie 8-5 against Ratchanok, will play Sunday's final against Chinese Taipei's top-seeded Tai Tzu Ying, who got the better of Chinese eighth seed He Bingjiao 19-21, 21-15, 21-15.
It was the big names from Indian badminton who squared off in the quarterfinals but it was Nehwal who prevailed victorious this time.
Saina Nehwal took 37 minutes to overcome World No.20 Chinese Chen Xiaoxin 21-12, 21-18, while PV Sindhu stream-rolled Goh Jin Wei of Malaysia 21-12, 21-9 in a one-sided contest.
Olympic silver medallist Sindhu didn't sweat much as she dumped local hope Hanna Raramdini 21 -13 21-10.
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Sindhu, who narrowly missed out on winning the titles at the World Championship in Glasgow and Dubai World Superseries Finals, said there were a lot of positive things to learn from this year's performances.
The Spanish left-hander proved too good for Nehwal as she won 15-5, 15-7 in a jiffy to add to the Warriors' woes.
The 2012 London Olympics bronze medallist shuttler said she was doing the training part but would need to strengthen herself while playing.
Saina's absence on the inaugural day's match of the PBL meant her high-voltage clash with arch-rival and Chennai Smashers' P V Sindhu could not take place.
Every day there will be one battle between two teams comprising five matches - men's, women's singles, men's doubles, women's doubles and mixed doubles.
Nehwal clinched the Malaysia Masters in January, before winning a bronze at the World Championship and Senior Nationals this season.
BWF has made it compulsory for the world's top 15 players in the singles events and top 10 pairs in the doubles disciplines to play a minimum of 12 tournaments or face a penalty.
Srikanth, who skipped the China Open and Hong Kong Open to recover from a mild strain, will be back in action at the Dubai Super Series Final, starting next week.
The first leg will take place in new entrants North Eastern Warriors' hometown, Guwahati, who enter the arena on the very second day to face the might of Carolina Marin's Hyderabad Hunters.
London Olympics bronze medallist Saina staved off a spirited challenge from World No 44 Mette Poulsen of Denmark 21-19, 23-21 in a 46-minute match.
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