{"id":12697,"date":"2013-01-16T14:47:43","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T14:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=12697"},"modified":"2013-01-16T14:47:43","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T14:47:43","slug":"malaysia-open-saina-cruises-into-second-round-sindhu-loses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=12697","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia Open: Saina cruises into second round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right: 6px; margin-left: 6px; float: left;\" alt=\"saina-featured\" src=\"images\/badminton\/saina-featured.jpg\" height=\"250\" width=\"250\" \/>Kuala Lumpur:<\/strong> London Olympics bronze medallist Saina Nehwal defeated Singapore&#8217;s Gu Juan in the women&#8217;s singles event to cruise into the second round of Malaysia Open on Wednesday. However, India&#8217;s rising star PV Sindhu went down fighting to a higher-ranked Tine Baun of Denmark in her first round match.<\/p>\n<p>Top seeded Saina Nehwal, got the better of Juan&#8217;s challenge in 29 minutes and beat her at the Putra Stadium.\n<\/p>\n<p>In the first game, the two matched each other to be tied at six points before Saina displayed some aggressive net play to open up a three-point lead to 9-6. Thereafter she just sailed ahead to clinch the game comfortably. The Hyderabadi, however, did not start well in the second game and was at one stage trailing 4-7 courtesy some brisk play the Singaporean.<\/p>\n<p>But smashes from the 21-year-old Indian proved too much for the unseeded Juan to handle and she eventually lost the game and match. Saina will next take on Hong Kong&#8217;s Pui Yin YIP in the second round.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Sindhu fought hard before going down to the third seeded Baun in a three-set encounter, lasting 49 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right: 6px; margin-left: 6px; float: left;\" alt=\"saina-featured\" src=\"images\/badminton\/saina-featured.jpg\" height=\"250\" width=\"250\" \/>Kuala Lumpur:<\/strong> London Olympics bronze medallist Saina Nehwal defeated Singapore&#8217;s Gu Juan in the women&#8217;s singles event to cruise into the second round of Malaysia Open on Wednesday. However, India&#8217;s rising star PV Sindhu went down fighting to a higher-ranked Tine Baun of Denmark in her first round match.<\/p>\n<p>Top seeded Saina Nehwal, got the better of Juan&#8217;s challenge in 29 minutes and beat her at the Putra Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[7715,280,7716,5710,925,6005],"class_list":["post-12697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-latest","tag-gu-juan","tag-london-olympics","tag-malaysia-open","tag-pv-sindhu","tag-saina-nehwal","tag-tine-baun"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Malaysia Open: Saina cruises into second round - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=12697\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Malaysia Open: Saina cruises into second round - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kuala Lumpur: London Olympics bronze medallist Saina Nehwal defeated Singapore&#039;s Gu Juan in the women&#039;s singles event to cruise into the second round of Malaysia Open on Wednesday. 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