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21:14 (IST)1 FEB 2018
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!
21:12 (IST)1 FEB 2018
Saina Nehwal is through to the quarter-finals! She joins PV Sindhu in the last-eight!!
21:11 (IST)1 FEB 2018
And Saina wastes no time! She wraps it up in style!
21-12, 21-11
21:08 (IST)1 FEB 2018
Saina simply too experienced and too intelligent for the Dane!
Up 17-9
21:06 (IST)1 FEB 2018
The Dane is not able to keep the shuttle in the court.
Saina is now up at 15-8
21:04 (IST)1 FEB 2018
It's 12-7 to the Indian currently
21:02 (IST)1 FEB 2018
Saina soars to 11-5 at the mid-game interval.
21:00 (IST)1 FEB 2018
And she is pretty pumped up too right now...shouting, 'Come on' after every winner!
21:00 (IST)1 FEB 2018
Saina is outfoxing Line through her deceptive shots at the moment!
Leads 8-2
20:58 (IST)1 FEB 2018
And she jumps to 6-2
20:56 (IST)1 FEB 2018
Smooth as butter!
Saina cruises to 4-1
20:55 (IST)1 FEB 2018
It's 1-1 in Game 2
20:52 (IST)1 FEB 2018
Saina takes the first game 21-12.
20:51 (IST)1 FEB 2018
Three game points for Nehwal at 20-11
20:50 (IST)1 FEB 2018
It's a 17-11 lead for the Indian.
Saina is very much in control of this game now.
20:48 (IST)1 FEB 2018
It's 14-10 to the Indian currently.
The Danish girl is trying to fight back.
20:46 (IST)1 FEB 2018
It's 13-8 to Saina, who builds a FIVE-POINT GAP!!!!!
20:45 (IST)1 FEB 2018
Line takes two points post-break to trail 7-11
20:43 (IST)1 FEB 2018
Saina is up 11-5 at the mid-game interval.
20:41 (IST)1 FEB 2018
No stopping Saina at the moment!
9-4
20:40 (IST)1 FEB 2018
It's 6-4 for the Indonesia Masters runner-up.
20:38 (IST)1 FEB 2018
Saina looking sharp and confident as ever!
5-3
20:37 (IST)1 FEB 2018
We are under way!
2-2 in the initial stages
20:34 (IST)1 FEB 2018
Good evening! The players are on court now.
15:22 (IST)1 FEB 2018
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.
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