India's Saina Nehwal was ousted at the China Super Series badminton in Shanghai.She was defeated by Chinese qualifier Xia Jingyun in the second round of the women's singles on Thursday.
 
Xie crushed the seventh seeded Saina by lost 21-17, 8-21, 13-21.
 
In the men's singles event, ...

Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal crashed out of the Hong Kong Super Series.Saina suffered a straight set defeat at the hands of Jie Yao of the Netherlands in women's singles event on Wednesday.

The unseeded Yao crushed the eight seeded Saina by 16-21 12-21 in just 26 minutes.
 
However the ...

Saina Nehwal climbed two rungs to attain the sixth place in the latest world rankings. The back-to-back quarterfinal appearances at the Denmark and French Super Series helped the ace shuttler to gain two places in the chart.
 
The Hyderabad girl who was just out of top five in August during ...

Saina Nehwal of India crashed out of the French Super Series badminton tournament as she lost her quarter-final encounter to Chinese Wang Lin.The Indian challenge in the French Super Series also came to an end as the mixed doubles pair of Jwala Gutta and V Diju also lost their quarter-final ...

Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal advanced into the quarter-finals of French Super Series. She comfortably won the second round of the women's singles event in Paris defeating Pui Yin Yip of Hong Kong.
 
The eighth seed Saina outclassed Pui by 21-15; 21-14.She will face top seed Wang Lin of China ...

Saina Nehwal of India advanced into the second round of the French Super Series badminton tournament. She defeated Juliane Schenk of Germany in her first-round clash in Paris.
 
The Eighth seed Saina outclassed the German by 21-18, 19-21, 21-13 in a 53-minute hard-fought battle on ...

Saina Nehwal bagged the PSPB Sports Person of the Year award for 2008-09. World billiards champion Pankaj Advani and cricketer Virender Sehwag shared the Sports Person of the Year award for 2007-08.
 
The Petroleum Sports Promotion Board (PSPB) last night gave away the awards for two years ...

Saina Nehwal of India entered the quarterfinals of World badminton .She defeated Bulgarian Petya Nedelcheva in three games in the pre-quarters of the women's singles played on Thursday
 
Saina who had the full support of the crowd crushed Nedelcheva by 18-21, 21-18, 21-10 in the match played ...

India's Saina Nehwal and Chetan Anand made it to the singles pre-quarterfinals of the World Badminton Championships. Parupalli Kashyap who had also put up a brave fight against second seed Jin Chen of China was out in the second round played on Wednesday.
 
Saina, who has stepped on the ...

Saina Nehwal, who has been diagnosed with chicken pox, has raised concern on her preparation for the World Badminton Championships to be held next month in Hyderabad. 
 
Pullela Gopichand, Saina’s coach has confirmed that the badminton ace, ranked sixth in the world, has been down ...

Three sportspersons will be awarded with Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna. They are four-time world boxing champion Mangte Chungneijang Marykom, Olympic bronze medallist boxer Vijender Singh and wrestler Sushil Kumar.
 
In 2002-03 the award was shared by shooter Anjali Vedpathak and athlete K.M. ...

Saina Nehwal, the 19-year old from Hyderabad, is currently the "most complete player" in Indian badminton and has the making of a World No.1, says 1980 All-England champion and former World No.1 Prakash Padukone.

Speaking to IANS here Monday, Padukone said that Saina, who last night ...

Saina Nehwal knocked out World No. 3 Chinese Lin Wang 12-21, 21-18, 21-9 at the Indonesian Open to win her maiden Super Series badminton title, the first by an Indian, in Djakarta Sunday.

World No. 8 Saina has been in hot form throughout the tournament and fought back in the final after losing ...

Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal achieved a major milestone by reaching the semi-finals of the World Super Series Masters Finals on Friday (December 19). Nehwal qualified for the semis after defeating Mew Choo Wong of Malaysia in the group league stage. Saina Nehwal crushed the Malaysian shuttler ...

An outstanding performance in 2008 has paid rich dividend to Saina Nehwal as she has been recognized and declared as the 'most promising player of the year' by the World Badminton Federation, in its council meeting in Seoul. Her election is made out of three players proposed by the world body ahead ...

18 year old Saina Nehwal has made to Top 10 in Badminton World Federation Rankings; she is the second Indian women to do so after Ami M Ghia. Ami broke up in Top 10 in the year 1983. The year so far has been a roller-coaster for Saina Nehwal. This year she won her second Grand Prix Chinese Taipei ...

Saina Nehwal defeated Sayaka Sato of Japan to become Badminton Junior World Champion. Saina defeated Sayaka by 21-9, 21-18 in a match that lasted just 25 minutes. She was joyous after the victory. She said that it was a great feeling to win the title as she had lost the same in the year ...

India's ace badminton player Saina Nehwal crashed out of China Master Cup after losing to Zhou Mi. Zhou Mi from Hong Kong defeated seventh seed Saina in a straight set by 21- 4, 21-19 in a match lasing just 26 minutes. Now, Zhou has become a major obstacle for India shuttler as she had stopped ...

India's Saina Nehwal has won Chinese Taipei Grand Prix Gold Open badminton tournament after defeating Li Ya Lydia of Malaysia in Taiwan by 21-8, 21-19. The fourteenth seed player defeated Malaysian player in straight set. The 18-year-old in order to win the title defeated Mingtian Fu (Singapore), ...

Saina Nehwal, the 18-year-old champion, got out of the Olympics' badminton competition when she lose the quarterfinal game to Maria Kristin Yulianti of Indonesia in Beijing. On her debut Olympic trip, she went down 28-26 14-21 15-21 in the rousing contest against Yulianti. In a nerve-racking ...

Saina Nehwal, the juvenile ace shuttler, made her way into quarterfinals of the women's singles badminton event after defeating Chen Wang of Hong Kong, at the Olympics. Nehwal, who is ranked 15, defeated Wang 21-19 11-21 21-11 in a difficult pre-quarterfinal contest at the gymnasium of Beijing ...

Indian ace shuttler Saina Nehwal has given fellow Indians some reason to cheer for at the ongoing Olympic Games in Beijing. On Sunday, August 10, the 15th ranked Nehwal easily ousted Ukraine’s Gryga Larysa in less than half an hours’ time to advance to the women's singles ...

India’s national badminton champion Saina Nehwal on Thursday, June 26 beat Vietnam’s Nguyen Nhung Le Ngoc 21-9, 21-6 to make her grand entry into the quarter-finals of the Thailand Open badminton championship being held at Bangkok. With the crashing out of compatriot Anup Sridhar, Saina ...

Saina Nehwal of India though got defeated in first round match of the Indonesia Super Series championship scared third seed player from France Pi Hongyan. Before losing the match she had took the lead of 1-0. Pi Hongyan however won the match by 12-21, 21-18, and 21-16 but she had to struggle a ...

It is self-belief which propels India’s Saina Nehwal to strive for success on the badminton court. This is evident from the fact that while playing in the semi-final round of the 2008 Singapore Super series badminton tournament against world number 10 Zhou Mi of Hong Kong, the Indian ...