Ace India shuttler Saina Nehwal has done it again. The champion shuttler picked her fourth Super Series title in all when she came back strongly from a first-game deficit to down the Chinese Wang Shixian of China 15-21, 21-16, 21-17 in the final of the Hong Kong Super Series women’s singles final on Sunday.
Saina, in a way, achieved a rare feat of winning all the finals she entered this year – starting with the Indian Open in Chennai, Singapore Open, Indonesian Open, Commonwealth Games and now the Hong Kong Open.
For the record, World No. 4 Saina has an unmatched record for any Indian badminton player in terms of winning the Super Series titles.
The 20-year-old Indian, seeded second here in Hong Kong Open, was desperate to put behind the disappointment of her quarter-final loss in the recent Guangzhou Asian Games, shrugged off early blues to rediscover her form to the shock of the third-seeded opponent.
Saina was on record before she left for the Hong Kong Open saying that very rarely she was as determined as she was this time around to win this title. And, now she has every reason to sport a big smile.
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