Saina out of Australian Open

[Dileep Kumar]

Saina Nehwal of India returns a shot during her women's singles quarterfinal match against Wang Shixan of China at the Australian Open Badminton tournament in Sydney on Friday, May 29, 2015.

The Indian challenge at the Australian Open Super Series badminton tournament ended after ace shuttler Saina Nehwal suffered a straight-game defeat against China’s Shixian Wang in the women’s singles quarterfinals here on Friday.

World No. 1 Saina suffered a 21-15, 21-13 loss to the two-time All England champion and fifth seed Shixian in a 41-minute clash.

It was Saina’s sixth defeat against the Chinese in 12 meetings.

In the opening game, Saina had grabbed a slender lead of 4-2 but Shixian soon wrested control of the match and went into the break at 11-8.
Slowly and steadily, Saina clawed back to 14-14 but a ruthless Shixian reeled off six straight points to and then pocketed the match without much ado.

In the second game, Shixian opened up a three-point lead at 6-3.

The Indian tried to arrest the slide and went neck and neck from 6-6 to 10-10 but after that the Chinese moved ahead with giant steps to once again leave Saina behind.

Saina Nehwal loses to Shixian Wang in Australian Open quarters - The Hindu

 

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[Anup Tiwari]

SYDNEY: World number one Chen
Long was taken to three games
before downing Denmark's Viktor
Axelsen to win the Australian Open
Badminton Superseries final in
Sydney on Sunday.
The Chinese star defeated the world
number nine Axelsen 21-12, 14-21,
21-18 in one hour and 17 minutes.
Chen now leads Axelsen 4-0 in their
tournament meetings.
Chen had reached the men's final
after beating 10th-ranked Tian
Houwei in an all-Chinese semi-final,
21-14, 21-19 on Saturday.
Spain's world number three Carolina
Marin took the women's singles in a
tight contest with China's sixth-
ranked Wang Shixian 22-20, 21-18 in
just under an hour.
It was a big week for the Spaniard,
who beat South Korea's world
number seven Sung Ji-Hyun 21-13,
21-14 to reach Sunday's final after
losing to India's Saina Nehwal in last
year's tournament decider.
The Australia Open is the fifth event
of the BWF World Superseries circuit
and counts towards qualifying for
next year's Rio Olympics.