India Open 2018, Second Round: Saina Nehwal vs Line Hojmark Kjaersfeldt, Live Match Updates

Nehwal wins 21-12, 21-11

Updated: 01 February 2018 21:17 IST - Published: 01 February 2018 15:19 IST

That wraps up our live coverage of Day 3 of the 2018 India Open. Thanks for staying with us.

Do join us tomorrow for the live updates from the quarter-finals.

Goodnight!

That was a pretty good performance from the Indonesia Masters runner-up. Tomorrow she will look to reach a BWF World Tour Super 500 semi-final for the second week in a row!

Saina Nehwal is through to the quarter-finals! She joins PV Sindhu in the last-eight!!

And Saina wastes no time! She wraps it up in style!

21-12, 21-11

Saina simply too experienced and too intelligent for the Dane!

Up 17-9

The Dane is not able to keep the shuttle in the court.

Saina is now up at 15-8

It's 12-7 to the Indian currently

Saina soars to 11-5 at the mid-game interval.

And she is pretty pumped up too right now...shouting, 'Come on' after every winner!

Saina is outfoxing Line through her deceptive shots at the moment!

Leads 8-2

And she jumps to 6-2

Smooth as butter!

Saina cruises to 4-1

It's 1-1 in Game 2

Saina takes the first game 21-12.

Three game points for Nehwal at 20-11

It's a 17-11 lead for the Indian.

Saina is very much in control of this game now.

It's 14-10 to the Indian currently.

The Danish girl is trying to fight back.

It's 13-8 to Saina, who builds a FIVE-POINT GAP!!!!!

Line takes two points post-break to trail 7-11

Saina is up 11-5 at the mid-game interval.

No stopping Saina at the moment!

9-4

It's 6-4 for the Indonesia Masters runner-up.

Saina looking sharp and confident as ever!

5-3

We are under way!

2-2 in the initial stages

Good evening! The players are on court now.

Good afternoon and welcome to the Sportskeeda liveblog of the 2018 India Open second round. Saina Nehwal is the fourth seed at this tournament and is looking to win the India Open for the third time in her career. After the kind of form that she showed at the Indonesia Masters last week, she definitely can. Saina beat three top-10 players on her way to reaching the final, where she lost to the World No. 1 Tai Tzu Ying.

The World No. 12 faces the 42nd ranked Line Højmark Kjaersfeldt of Denmark in her quest for a quarter-final berth at the 2018 India Open today. They have met just once and Saina won that match at the French Open first round last year. But the young Dane did give her a tough fight and even snatched a game from her before the former World No. 1 completed the win in three games.

Saina thus cannot afford to take her opponent lightly today.