VoteUpIndia

Trust is like a second skin to Saina Nehwal. She eats, stays light.It his greatest asset,said Baum Denmark Tine star player is on the other half of the draw.It could be slow in a game, but has his confidence back in. Mentally, is there with the best in the world.

India’s Saina Nehwal during her 21-14, 21-18 win over Russia’s Ella Diehl in the BWF World Championship at the Pierre de Coubertin Stadium in Paris yesterday.

No player in England one of the men Ouseph Rajiv says:When he plays, you never know when he reeled off 10 points in a row. And slow and sometimes I wonder if he played the game at all.Asked about his opponent in the quarterfinals (Shixian Wang, China), Nehwal is relaxed and the point of indifference.I played so many quarter-finals,he says.

This is not the case. What is decisive is what Iam doing the game.Match … Well, here what happened in game Saina: drop shot was so beautiful, like watching a feather falling. At 6-6 in the second game of Saina Nehwal World Cup Badminton campaign, things were tense. A few calls on the line had gone to Russia Ella Diehl. He threw the bat at the court set a line judge, the coach came back to claim the call was wrong.

At 15-10, the match was in the bag. But Diehl had other ideas. She pinned Nehwal with some lovely net play to the left corner. Nehwal instead of coming out and flicking a high toss, played the net game too. But more often than not, sent the shuttle spinning across the sideline. At 17-17, it could have been anybody’s game.

Nehwal muttered through clenched teeth and reeled off four points to take the match 21-14, 21-18 and a place in the quarter-finals. “Even though it wasn’t a tough match, there were errors,” Nehwal admitted.It looks like God is on the side of Saina Nehwal and is clearing the path for the Indian badminton ace’s rise to No. 1 in world rankings.

While Saina Nehwal is doing her bit to achieve the distinction by progressing up the bottom half of the singles draw at the World Championships in Paris, her task was made easier on Thursday by the early exit of the current world number one and top seed China’s Wang Yihan.

With Yihan becoming a third round victim to Eriko Hirose of Japan, not only the biggest hurdle is out of Saina’s path but the equation now got simplified to just two players: Saina and the third ranked Wang Xin.

At the moment Saina is 56183.3531 points behind Yihan and she can wipe out that deficit with a semifinal appearance that would fetch her 6,600 points.

But she would then come face to face with Wang Xin, the only player who appears to have the chance to prove Saina’s nemesis, presuming that the Chinese would come through her quarter of the draw unscathed.

Wang is already breathing down Saina’s neck, with just about 3,500 points separating the two. And should she manage to beat the Indian in the semifinals, she would also win the race for the No. 1 ranking.

Before that, however, Saina is likely to come up against another Chinese wall, Wang Shixian, in the quarterfinals on Friday.

Ranked sixth at the start of the tournament, the Chinese moved to fourth rank on Thursday and is expected to come through her third round match against Yao Jie of the Netherlands.

Notwithstanding the two Chinese thorns strewn in her path, Saina is expected to sail past them. And given the manner of her victory over Russia’s Ella Diehl in the third round on Thursday, the scales look tilted fully in her favour. Saina took just 40 minutes to oust Ella and extend her domination over the Russian to 5-0.

[Story Source] [Contest win Rs 1000-100,000 now]

This post was submitted by rishi maurya.

Thanks to news.google.co.in