{"id":12751,"date":"2013-01-12T14:10:45","date_gmt":"2013-01-12T14:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=12751"},"modified":"2013-01-12T14:10:45","modified_gmt":"2013-01-12T14:10:45","slug":"saina-nehwal-loses-in-korea-open-quarters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=12751","title":{"rendered":"Saina Nehwal loses in Korea Open quarters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-8849\" style=\"margin-right: 6px; margin-left: 6px; float: left;\" alt=\"saina-winning\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/saina-winning.jpg\" height=\"156\" width=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/saina-winning.jpg 250w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/saina-winning-150x94.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Seoul:<\/strong> London Olympics bronze medallist Saina Nehwal lost to China\u2019s Li Han in the quarterfinal of Korea Open Super Series Premier badminton tournament here on Friday. With her loss, the Indian challenge also ended in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The third\u2014seeded Indian went down 14\u201421 21\u201415 12\u201421 in a contest that lasted 59 minutes.\n<\/p>\n<p>It was quite an upset for Saina, who had beaten Han in their previous two encounters.<\/p>\n<p>The world number 26 Chinese seemed up for the challenge from the word go and matched Saina\u2019s trademark smashes besides cornering her with some deft net\u2014play to take the opening game with ease.<\/p>\n<p>Saina came back strongly in the second to draw level but Han showed a lot of tenacity to outplay the Indian in the deciding third game.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese matched Saina stroke\u2014for\u2014stroke before edging ahead to end her losing streak against the world number three.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Parupalli Kashyap and P.V.Sindhu had exited in the in the second round yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-8849\" style=\"margin-right: 6px; margin-left: 6px; float: left;\" alt=\"saina-winning\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/saina-winning.jpg\" height=\"156\" width=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/saina-winning.jpg 250w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/saina-winning-150x94.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Seoul:<\/strong> London Olympics bronze medallist Saina Nehwal lost to China\u2019s Li Han in the quarterfinal of Korea Open Super Series Premier badminton tournament here on Friday. With her loss, the Indian challenge also ended in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The third\u2014seeded Indian went down 14\u201421 21\u201415 12\u201421 in a contest that lasted 59 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[7742,4951,280,925],"class_list":["post-12751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-more-sports-more-sports","tag-korea-open-super-series-premier-badminton","tag-li-han","tag-london-olympics","tag-saina-nehwal"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Saina Nehwal loses in Korea Open quarters - 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=12751\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Saina Nehwal loses in Korea Open quarters - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Seoul: London Olympics bronze medallist Saina Nehwal lost to China\u2019s Li Han in the quarterfinal of Korea Open Super Series Premier badminton tournament here on Friday. 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