The 38th edition of the Asia Badminton Championships is currently underway in China. The tournament, which is taking place at the Wuhan Sports Centre Gymnasium, will pay out a total prize money of 350,000 dollars and will award the participants with valuable points for their respective BWF rankings.
2018 Commonwealth Games gold medallist Saina Nehwal will take on China's Gao Fangjie in the second round of the Asia Badminton Championship. The winner of this match will face South Korea's Lee Jang-Mi in the quarterfinal.
Nehwal beat Singapore's Yeo Jia Min in the first round by a score of 21-12, 21-9. Saina's second-round opponent Gao Fangjie beat seed five, Nozomi Okuhara 21-15, 23-21 in the first round. She will look to build upon her Commonwealth Games gold medal, which came against compatriot Sindhu, as she goes up against an in-form Gao.