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

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

Updated: 28 April 2018 15:25 IST - Published: 28 April 2018 13:04 IST

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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!!!!!!

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