{"id":2816,"date":"2012-03-01T15:20:30","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T15:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=2816"},"modified":"2012-03-01T15:20:30","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T15:20:30","slug":"saina-nehwal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=2816","title":{"rendered":"Saina Nehwal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-2815\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/saina-nehwal.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" style=\"float: left; margin: 6px;\" \/>Name of the sportsperson: <\/strong>Saina Nehwal<br \/><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discipline: <\/strong>Badminton<br \/><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Date of Birth: <\/strong>17-03-1990<br \/><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>State: <\/strong>Haryana<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Achievements and Awards<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Saina Nehwal was rewarded with the Arjuna award in August, 2009.<br \/>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Saina has been awarded with Padma Shri award in January 2010.<br \/>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 She has become one of the 8 brand ambassadors of 2010 Commonwealth Games.<br \/>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Saina has been awarded with the highest national sporting award given to players, Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award on 29 August 2010.<br \/>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Saina Nehwal won the gold medal in 2010 Commonwealth Games. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Facts about Saina Nehval<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Saina successfully lead the Indian Women Team to the Quarter-finals stage of the 2010 Uber Cub finals.<br \/>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Saina became the first Indian Woman to reach the semi finals of2010 All-England Super Series before losing to eventual champion Tina Rasmussen.<br \/>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Saina reached a career high of world no. 3 in the women&#8217;s singles badminton world rankings on 24 June 2010.<br \/>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 On 12 December 2010, Saina Nehwal defeated Wang Shixian 15\u201321, 21\u201316, 21\u201317 in the final of the 2010 Hong Kong Super Series to win her fourth career Super Series title.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Profile <br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Saina is the first Indian woman to reach the singles quarterfinals at the Olympics and the first Indian to win the World Junior Badminton Championship. Saina Nehwal marked her name in the history books on June 21, 2009, becoming the first Indian to win a Super Series tournament, by clinching the Indonesia Open with a victory over higher-ranked Chinese Wang Lin in Jakarta. <\/p>\n<p>Saina won her second career Super Series title by winning the Singapore Open title on June 20, 2010. She completed a hat-trick in the same year by winning the Indonesian Open on June 27, 2010. This win resulted in her rise to 3rd ranking and subsequently to No. 2. Later in the same year she won the Hong Kong Super Series on Dec. 12, 2010. <\/p>\n<p>After experiencing a poor 2011 season, Saina become the first Indian singles player to reach the summit stage of year-ending Super Series Finals defeating two-time All England champion and World No. 5 Tine Baun in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-2815\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/saina-nehwal.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" style=\"float: left; margin: 6px;\" \/>Name of the sportsperson: <\/strong>Saina Nehwal<br \/><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discipline: <\/strong>Badminton<br \/><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Date of Birth: <\/strong>17-03-1990<br \/><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>State: <\/strong>Haryana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[1322,1319,925],"class_list":["post-2816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-badminton-profiles","tag-padma-shri","tag-rajiv-gandhi-khel-ratna","tag-saina-nehwal"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Saina Nehwal - 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=2816\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Saina Nehwal - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Name of the sportsperson: Saina Nehwal Discipline: Badminton Date of Birth: 17-03-1990 State: Haryana\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=2816\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-03-01T15:20:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/saina-nehwal.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"267\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/indiansportsnews.co.in\\\/?p=2816#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/indiansportsnews.co.in\\\/?p=2816\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/indiansportsnews.co.in\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/b8f51f3c66686ab3518464e9b8368646\"},\"headline\":\"Saina Nehwal\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-03-01T15:20:30+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/indiansportsnews.co.in\\\/?p=2816\"},\"wordCount\":319,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/indiansportsnews.co.in\\\/?p=2816#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/indiansportsnews.co.in\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2012\\\/03\\\/saina-nehwal.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Padma Shri\",\"Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna\",\"Saina nehwal\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Badminton\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/indiansportsnews.co.in\\\/?p=2816#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/indiansportsnews.co.in\\\/?p=2816\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/indiansportsnews.co.in\\\/?p=2816\",\"name\":\"Saina Nehwal - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/indiansportsnews.co.in\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/indiansportsnews.co.in\\\/?p=2816#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/indiansportsnews.co.in\\\/?p=2816#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/indiansportsnews.co.in\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2012\\\/03\\\/saina-nehwal.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-03-01T15:20:30+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/indiansportsnews.co.in\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/b8f51f3c66686ab3518464e9b8368646\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/indiansportsnews.co.in\\\/?p=2816#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/indiansportsnews.co.in\\\/?p=2816\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/indiansportsnews.co.in\\\/?p=2816#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/indiansportsnews.co.in\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2012\\\/03\\\/saina-nehwal.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/indiansportsnews.co.in\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2012\\\/03\\\/saina-nehwal.jpg\",\"width\":267,\"height\":400},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/indiansportsnews.co.in\\\/?p=2816#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/indiansportsnews.co.in\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Saina Nehwal\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/indiansportsnews.co.in\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/indiansportsnews.co.in\\\/\",\"name\":\"IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/indiansportsnews.co.in\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/indiansportsnews.co.in\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/b8f51f3c66686ab3518464e9b8368646\",\"name\":\"admin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/aaa92315b99cea76f3cb21975ca617077d7cd514d725861014bca1d7678c283b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/aaa92315b99cea76f3cb21975ca617077d7cd514d725861014bca1d7678c283b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/aaa92315b99cea76f3cb21975ca617077d7cd514d725861014bca1d7678c283b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"admin\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/indiansportsnews.co.in\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/indiansportsnews.co.in\\\/?author=1\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Saina Nehwal - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=2816","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Saina Nehwal - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports","og_description":"Name of the sportsperson: Saina Nehwal Discipline: Badminton Date of Birth: 17-03-1990 State: Haryana","og_url":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=2816","og_site_name":"IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports","article_published_time":"2012-03-01T15:20:30+00:00","og_image":[{"width":267,"height":400,"url":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/saina-nehwal.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"admin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"admin","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=2816#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=2816"},"author":{"name":"admin","@id":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/#\/schema\/person\/b8f51f3c66686ab3518464e9b8368646"},"headline":"Saina Nehwal","datePublished":"2012-03-01T15:20:30+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=2816"},"wordCount":319,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=2816#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/saina-nehwal.jpg","keywords":["Padma Shri","Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna","Saina nehwal"],"articleSection":["Badminton"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=2816#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=2816","url":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=2816","name":"Saina Nehwal - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=2816#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=2816#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/saina-nehwal.jpg","datePublished":"2012-03-01T15:20:30+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/#\/schema\/person\/b8f51f3c66686ab3518464e9b8368646"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=2816#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=2816"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=2816#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/saina-nehwal.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/saina-nehwal.jpg","width":267,"height":400},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=2816#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Saina Nehwal"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/#website","url":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/","name":"IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/#\/schema\/person\/b8f51f3c66686ab3518464e9b8368646","name":"admin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/aaa92315b99cea76f3cb21975ca617077d7cd514d725861014bca1d7678c283b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/aaa92315b99cea76f3cb21975ca617077d7cd514d725861014bca1d7678c283b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/aaa92315b99cea76f3cb21975ca617077d7cd514d725861014bca1d7678c283b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"admin"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in"],"url":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?author=1"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}