Saina Nehwal's 5 best Superseries victories

3.Australian Open, 2016

After a series 5 semifinals defeats and a quarterfinal exit at the Indonesia Open last week, Saina entered the Australian Open, hoping to end the Superseries leg before the Rio Olympics on a positive note.

After breezing past her opponents in the opening two rounds, Saina took on Ratchanak Intanon in the quarterfinal and showed tremendous fight throughout, despite giving away 6 game point opportunities to win the opening game 28-26 and then won the second 21-16 to enter the semis.

In the semifinals, when many though Wang Yihan would pose a big threat, the Indian pulled out her A game, demolishing her opponent 21-8 21-12 to make her way into the final.

In the title clash, up against Sun Yu of China, Saina lost the opening game 11- 21. but fought back tenaciously to win the second game 21-14 and then held her nerve in the thrilling decider to win it 21-19 and with it also clinched her second Australian Open title in three years.

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