Badminton Asia Championships 2018, Women's Singles, Semifinal: Saina Nehwal vs Tai Tzu Ying, Live Match Updates

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India's campaign at the Badminton Asia Championships thus ends with two medals. Both Nehwal and HS Prannoy finish with bronze medals.

She was so close in both games, had four game points in the first game! This will be a massive encouragement for Nehwal as she embarks on other battles in the rest of the season.

Tai's title defense continues, but WHAT A FIGHT THAT WAS FROM SAINA!!!!!!!

Saina sends the shuttle wide!

Tai def Nehwal 27-25, 21-19 to enter the final.

It did land in!

Match point to Tai

Tai's shot apparently landed in and Saina challenged

Saina's shot goes out!

19-19

Tai's shot just caught the edge, Hawkeye confirms.

Tai trails 18-19

Tense times!

A resilient Saina is looking very, very pumped up!!

Saina has built a two-point lead at 19-17

It's 17-17

Saina is pretty determined to take this to the decider

Tai's errors havent been allowing her to have a firm grip on this game.

Saina is making the most of those opportunities.

15-15

Saina grabs two quick points here and moves closer to 13-14

Tai is looking to establish her control of this match now.

13-9 to Tai

Tai grabs an 11-9 lead at the midgame break.

Saina inches closer to levelling this.

Just one point behind at 9-10

Beautiful drop from Tai and then Saina sends the shuttle wide.

It's 10-8 to Tai

It's 7-7 presently

Now it's Tai's turn to make errors.

6-6

Saina had beautiful control so far but finally the stoic Saina breaks down and makes a loose error.

Tai 6-4

Saina is making Tai work really hard.

4-4

Still nothing to separate the two.

3-3

It's 2-2 in the initial stages of Game 2

Can Saina sustain that level in Game 2?

Saina gave absolutely EVERYTHING in those last few points!!!!!!

And Tai has got the game!

27-25

WHAT A GAME THAT WAS!!!!!!

Now 4th game point to Tai

26-25

Stunning half smash from Tai!

25-25

Fourth game point to Saina!

25-24

Tai forces Saina to make an error!

What a game!

24-24

Now Tai sends the shuttle long!

It's 23-23

Wow!

Tai produced a drop from the backhand and Saina couldn't reach the shuttle.

Tai 23-22

It's 22-22

And Saina saves it

The shuttle brushed off the tape and landed on Saina's side

Tai got a game point but dumped the shuttle into the net.

21-21

Tai saved with a wondrous shot that landed on the line

Saina attacked the Tai backhand and forced her to make an error.

20-18 to Saina

A pumped up Saina races ahead to 19-17

Saina snatches the lead at 18-17

An aggressive Saina makes it 17-17

What a crosscourt smash from Saina!

16-16

And it is all level!

15-15

She gets another two points through accurace placement.

14-15

Saina kept the clears going to push Tai deep and finished with a deft touch at the net.

Saina 12-15

It's 15-10 to Tai presently.

Saina is pushing the shuttle to every corner to keep Tai on the run.

She gets a point.

8-13

Saina is now making Tai move all over the court and got two points.

7-11

It's 11-5 to Tai going into the midgame break.