{"id":22760,"date":"2015-08-16T05:39:54","date_gmt":"2015-08-16T05:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=22760"},"modified":"2015-08-16T05:39:54","modified_gmt":"2015-08-16T05:39:54","slug":"saina-beats-fanetri-to-become-first-indian-to-reach-world-badminton-championships-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=22760","title":{"rendered":"Saina beats Fanetri to become first Indian to reach World Badminton C&#8217;ships final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-8849\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/saina-winning.jpg\" alt=\"saina winning\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" width=\"250\" height=\"156\" 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\" \/>Jakarta:<\/strong> Ace shuttler Saina Nehwal beat Indonesia&#8217;s Lindaweni Fanetri to become the first Indian to reach the final of the World Badminton Championships here on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The World No.2 Hyderabadi shuttler got the better of the Indonesian 21-17, 21-17 in the semifinals of the women&#8217;s singles. Now Saina will battle it out with with defending champion and World No. 1 Carolina Marin of Spain in the final on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Saina had a tough time against Lindaweni, who was playing with an injured right knee, as they engaged in long rallies. It was Lindaweni who opened up a 6-2 lead, but Saina made it 9-9. Thereafter, though Saina kept on taking the lead, Lindaweni fought back for parity, with score reading 15-15 at one stage. Finally, Sania took the first match 21-17.<\/p>\n<p>However, despite the injury, the Indonesian fought hard in the second match as well and everytime Saina took lead, Lindaweni came back from behind. The duo were neck and neck (10-10) before Saina made it 14-11. However, Lindaweni came back strong once again and drew parity 14-14.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However, Saina prevailed over her rival to take the second match at 21-17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-8849\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/saina-winning.jpg\" alt=\"saina winning\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" width=\"250\" height=\"156\" 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\" \/>Jakarta:<\/strong> Ace shuttler Saina Nehwal beat Indonesia&#8217;s Lindaweni Fanetri to become the first Indian to reach the final of the World Badminton Championships here on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The World No.2 Hyderabadi shuttler got the better of the Indonesian 21-17, 21-17 in the semifinals of the women&#8217;s singles. Now Saina will battle it out with with defending champion and World No. 1 Carolina Marin of Spain in the final on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[466,925,10115],"class_list":["post-22760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-badminton-badminton","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-saina-nehwal","tag-world-badminton-championships"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Saina beats Fanetri to become first Indian to reach World Badminton C&#039;ships final - 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=22760\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Saina beats Fanetri to become first Indian to reach World Badminton C&#039;ships final - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Jakarta: Ace shuttler Saina Nehwal beat Indonesia&#039;s Lindaweni Fanetri to become the first Indian to reach the final of the World Badminton Championships here on Saturday.The World No.2 Hyderabadi shuttler got the better of the Indonesian 21-17, 21-17 in the semifinals of the women&#039;s singles. 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