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India's Saina marches into badminton
quarters at London Olympics
Thursday August 02, 2012 01:12:44 AM,
IANS
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London: On a day when
the badminton world was shrouded with controversy, it was business
as usual for India's Saina Nehwal as she cruised into the
quarterfinals of the women's badminton singles at the London
Olympics here Wednesday.
Eight women badminton players were disqualified from the doubles
event for throwing matches to get a favourable opponent.
Saina, who will be making her second quarterfinal appearance in
the Olympics, though didn't let any of this distract her as she
disposed off Jie Yao of the Netherlands 21-14, 21-16.
The Indian, seeded fourth, was in top form and sent a warning to
her opponents with her full array of shots that demolished the
eleventh seed.
The first game was easy for the Indian, as she opened a 10-4 lead.
Saina made her opponent run all over the court with her trademark
disguised drop shots in full show.
The second was a tighter affair, the Indian took a 5-2 lead
initially but was pegged back by some dogged play by the Dutch
player, who then managed to take a 8-5 lead.
Saina's reply came swiftly as she lifted her game to wipe off the
deficit and then take a 13-9 lead. Some bad judgement calls by the
Indian allowed the 11th seed to crawl back into the game but the
writing was on the wall for the Dutch shuttler as Saina finally
closed the game 21-16.
Earlier in the day, Parupalli Kashyap created history by becoming
the first Indian male player to enter the singles quarterfinals at
Olympics, defeating Sri Lankan Niluka Karunaratne in three games.
Kashyap won a tough match 21-14, 15-21, 21-9, in one hour and six
minutes at the Wembley Arena. The previous best performance was by
Dipankar Bhattarcharjee in the 1992 Barcelona Games where he lost
the third round match to Chinese Zhao Jianhua.
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