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Sadly, Saina's confident performances in her first two rounds did raise hopes of a deeper run from the former champion. It just did not happen. Hopefully, she can take the positives out of this and be prepared to do well at the French Open in Paris next week.
That was complete domination by the defending champion in just 29 minutes! Her deceptions made it very hard for Saina and towards the end, Saina looked very tired and out of options. Could her late night match yesterday have a role to play with it? Saina did look very drained and it is obvious that she did not get enough rest.
Nonetheless, it should not take anything away from Yamaguchi, who had a plan and played a brilliant match from start to finish.
Stay tuned to Sportskeeda for the live updates from Srikanth Kidambi's match HERE and HS Prannoy's match HERE.