{"id":1996,"date":"2012-01-15T07:30:20","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T07:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=1996"},"modified":"2012-01-15T07:30:20","modified_gmt":"2012-01-15T07:30:20","slug":"saina-nehwal-fails-to-climb-the-chinese-wall-loses-in-malaysia-open-semifinal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=1996","title":{"rendered":"Saina Nehwal fails to climb the Chinese wall, loses in Malaysia Open semifinal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"#\" title=\"Saina Nehwal\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/saina-nehwal-wins--hongkong-open-super-series.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Saina nehwal\" width=\"200\" style=\"float: left; margin: 6px;\" \/><\/a>Kuala Lumpur: <\/strong>Saina  Nehwal failed to climb the Chinese wall, as the fourth seed Indian ace  lost to top seed Wang Yihan of China 15-21, 16-21 in the semifinals of  Maybank Malaysia Open Badminton Championship here on Saturday. Saina, who had reached the last -four stage of the championship by  beating Tine Baun of Denmark, lost to Yihan in straight sets in a match  that lasted for 41 minutes. It was the fifth time that the both the  players were playing each other, with the Chinese winning on all  occasions.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Saina had a 8-4 lead in the first game but World No 1 Yihan came back  strong after that and tokk the next six points. Thereafter it was Yihan  all the way.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the second game as well, Saina was ahead 5-2 before the Chinese  shuttler took control did not lose the lead from 10-10. Now Yihan faces  Xin Wang in the final tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"#\" title=\"Saina Nehwal\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/saina-nehwal-wins--hongkong-open-super-series.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Saina nehwal\" width=\"200\" style=\"float: left; margin: 6px;\" \/><\/a>Kuala Lumpur: <\/strong>Saina  Nehwal failed to climb the Chinese wall, as the fourth seed Indian ace  lost to top seed Wang Yihan of China 15-21, 16-21 in the semifinals of  Maybank Malaysia Open Badminton Championship here on Saturday. Saina, who had reached the last -four stage of the championship by  beating Tine Baun of Denmark, lost to Yihan in straight sets in a match  that lasted for 41 minutes. It was the fifth time that the both the  players were playing each other, with the Chinese winning on all  occasions.<\/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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-isn-front-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Saina Nehwal fails to climb the Chinese wall, loses in Malaysia Open semifinal - 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=1996\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Saina Nehwal fails to climb the Chinese wall, loses in Malaysia Open semifinal - 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: Saina Nehwal failed to climb the Chinese wall, as the fourth seed Indian ace lost to top seed Wang Yihan of China 15-21, 16-21 in the semifinals of Maybank Malaysia Open Badminton Championship here on Saturday. 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