SAINA NEHWAL BEGINS OLYMPIC MEDAL BID ON STRONG NOTE
Saina Nehwal won her first group match against Switzerland’s Sabrina Jaquet
straight games at the Olympics, in London on Sunday 29th July,
2012.India’s
ace shuttler Saina Nehwal made a rousing start to her bid for an Olympic medal
as she spanked Swiss Sabrina Jaquet in straight games in a lop-sided women’s
singles group stage opening match.The world number five Indian was too good for
the 65th ranked Swiss as she took just 22 minutes to complete a 21-9 21-4
victory at the Wembley arena here.Sabrina, who had qualified for the Games by
reaching the quarter finals of the 2012 European Championship in Karlskrona,
Sweden, could not provide any resistance to Saina, who launched her campaign on
a dominating note.
The
22-year-old Indian, who came into the tournament after winning the Thailand
Grand Prix Gold and Indonesian Super Series Premium last month, took 12 minutes
to wrap up the first match, before sealing the issue in her favour by winning
the second game in just 10 minutes.Such was the domination of the Indian that Sabrina
was reduced to a bystander as the Indian kept lapping up her points in quick
succession. The girl from Hyderabad led by massive 12 and 17 points in the
first and second game respectively.Saina, who had reached the quarterfinals in
her Olympic debut at the Beijing Games four years ago, will take on Lianne Tan
of Belgium in another group E match tomorrow.
Prof. John Kurakar
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