World Badminton Championships 2017: Saina Nehwal vs Kirsty Gilmour Live Score and updates: Nehwal wins 21-19, 18-21, 21-15

That wraps up our liveblog for the day.

Let us hope tomorrow we have more good news when PV Sindhu and Saina Nehwal play their respective semi-finals.

Till then stay tuned to Sportskeeda for all the latest updates from the 2017 World Championships.

Goodnight!

You can find out here how PV Sindhu reached the semi-finals and assured herself of her third medal.

Kudos to the two ladies who are keeping the Indian Tricolour flying in Glasgow!

And with the two of them being in opposite halves, we MIGHT JUST HAVE AN ALL-INDIAN FINAL!!!!

This is the first time India has got TWO MEDALS FROM A SINGLE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS!

What a day for Indian badminton!

And with that, Saina Nehwal assures herself of her SECOND MEDAL FROM THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS to add to the silver she got from 2015.

Final score: Saina Nehwal wins 21-19, 18-21, 21-15

This time she finds the net! Saina gets it, 21-15

Another one from Gilmour lands on the baseline.... 15-20

Saina 20-14

Wow! Gilmour's defence still strong!

What a return from Saina! Match points at 20-13

The initial burst of speed and power is hardly there in this game

Long from Gilmour....12-19

Saina hit back at Kirsty and she sends it out....Saina up 18-12

Wow! That was some smash into the corner from the Scot.... 11-17

The Scot is feeling the pressure....lagging behind 10-17

Touch of genius from Gilmour with a wonderful slice....10-16

Gilmour pretty dejected....9-16

15-9 for Saina

It is 14-8 for Nehwal

Gilmour is looking tired and the drift going against her

Nehwal lunges forward to lift on the backhand wing of Gilmour and the Scot makes error.....12-7

Saina's time to stumble at the net.. Still ahead 11-7

A rejuvenated Kirsty comes back to.produce a jump smash.....6-11

Loud chants of "India, India" going on at the stadium

After a great rally, Gilmour finally finds the net to hand over an 11-5 advantage to Nehwal.

And Saina advances to 10-4

Steadily the 2015 runner-up is progressing now....9-4

The 12th seed ahead at 8-4

It's still a FOUR-POINT GAP......Saina up 7-3

Saina needs to keep distance away from the Scot for she has a good habit of coming back

6-2 now

Has she finally managed to take the wind out of Gilmour's sails?

And 5-0

Wow, this is cruise control from Nehwal....4-0

THIRD GAME

Nehwal builds a quick 2-0 lead

Who will come through in this highly entertaining battle?

Gilmour keeps on sending the shuttle back directly at Saina and is paid rich dividends.... She takes the 2nd game, 21-18

And the Scot makes an error... 20-18

Great net shot from Saina....Kirsty falters....Gilmour ahead 20-17

Game points galore from Kirsty...20-16

Gilmour's backhand goes off.....19-16

19-15 now

Gilmour is serving a concoction of attack and defence!

Saina is rushing and it is not working... 14-19

Gilmour cruising at 17-13

The pace of the game has slowed down. Saina probably is trying to take the jump smash out of the equation. Not a good idea, i think
— Abhijeet Kulkarni (@abk6580) August 25, 2017

15-11 lead for the Scot...again hard work needed for the Indian to come back

Gilmour still making it look easy...14-11 now.

Meanwhile, the tournament lost its two-time defending champion as Nozomi Okuhara sent Carolina Marin packing, 21-18 14-21 21-15

World Badminton Championships 2017: Saina Nehwal vs Kirsty Gilmour Live Score and updates: Nehwal wins 21-19, 18-21, 21-15

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