{"id":4342,"date":"2018-01-27T17:39:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-27T12:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.smartworld.asia\/?p=4342"},"modified":"2018-01-27T17:41:29","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T12:11:29","slug":"sensational-saina-enters-final-indonesia-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/sensational-saina-enters-final-indonesia-masters\/","title":{"rendered":"Sensational Saina enters final of Indonesia Masters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saina Nehwal made a perfect start to the new season, reaching the women’s singles final of the $350,000. Indonesia Masters with a thrilling straight-game win over world no 4 Ratchanok Inthanon of Thailand here on Saturday.<\/h2>\n

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The former world no 1, who has won thrice in Indonesia, dished out a spirited performance to overcome a fighting Ratchanok 21-19 21-19 in the semifinal lasting 48 minutes.<\/p>\n

Saina, who had a 8-5 head-to-head record against the 2013 World Champion Ratchanok, displayed tremendous fighting spirit as she erased a 6-10 deficit in the opening game and held on to the fort despite a late charge by the Thai shuttler in the second game.<\/p>\n

Saina, who reached the final of an international competition after a year following her title triumph at Malaysia Masters last year, will play world no 1 Tai Tzu Ying of Chinese Taipei or Chinese eighth seed He Bingjiao in the final tomorrow.<\/p>\n

Saina won an exceptional rally next but Ratchanok produced a brilliant straight smash and a cross court drop to move to 10-7. A net dribble gone wrong gave another point to Saina but she went long next as Ratchanok entered the break with a three-point cushion.<\/p>\n

Saina committed another service error but rode on her drop and body line returns to keep within touching distance at 11-13.<\/p>\n

She soon drew parity after Ratchanok went wide and then grabbed a 14-13 lead when the Thai player went long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saina Nehwal made a perfect start to the new season, reaching the women’s singles final of the $350,000. Indonesia Masters with a thrilling straight-game win over world no 4 Ratchanok Inthanon of Thailand here on Saturday. The former world no 1, who has won thrice in Indonesia, dished out a spirited performance to overcome a …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1360],"tags":[6433],"class_list":["post-4342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-badminton-news","tag-saina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}