{"id":8850,"date":"2012-07-30T08:31:27","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T08:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.com\/?p=8850"},"modified":"2012-07-30T08:31:27","modified_gmt":"2012-07-30T08:31:27","slug":"london-olympics-saina-nehwal-wins-first-round-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.com\/?p=8850","title":{"rendered":"London Olympics: Saina Nehwal beats Sabrina in first round"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"LondonLondon<\/strong>: Saina Nehwal brought some respite to the high profile Indian badminton contingent which have its mixed doubles pair of Jwala Gutta and V Diju on the brink of elimination with a straight games victory over Sabrina Jacquet of Switzerland 21-9, 21-4 in her first match of the event.<\/p>\n

The world number 5 Saina, a strong medal prospect for the country started her campaign as expected and dominated the Swiss for her straight games 21-9, 21-4 victory at the Wembley Arena. <\/strong>In a match that lasted just 24 minutes, Saina was seen in a punishing mood did not allow Sabrina any room to breathe.
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The 22-year-old Indian took 12 minutes to wrap up the first game, while it took another 10 minutes for her seal the issue in her favor.<\/p>\n

Sabrina was more of a bystander in the match and could not pose any threat to the Indian.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile earlier in the day, Indian mixed doubles campaign is almost virtually over as the pair of Jwala Gutta and V Diju crashed to their second consecutive defeat. <\/p>\n

They succumbed to a succumbed to a 12-21 16-21 defeat to the 2009 World Championships winning pair of Thomas Laybourn and Kamilla Rytter Juhl from Denmark.<\/p>\n

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By Indian Sports News Network<\/strong>
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\"LondonLondon<\/strong>: Saina Nehwal brought some respite to the high profile Indian badminton contingent which have its mixed doubles pair of Jwala Gutta and V Diju on the brink of elimination with a straight games victory over Sabrina Jacquet of Switzerland 21-9, 21-4 in her first match of the event.<\/p>\n

The world number 5 Saina, a strong medal prospect for the country started her campaign as expected and dominated the Swiss for her straight games 21-9, 21-4 victory at the Wembley Arena. <\/strong>In a match that lasted just 24 minutes, Saina was seen in a punishing mood did not allow Sabrina any room to breathe.
<\/strong><\/p>\n

The 22-year-old Indian took 12 minutes to wrap up the first game, while it took another 10 minutes for her seal the issue in her favor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-olympics"],"yoast_head":"\nLondon Olympics: Saina Nehwal beats Sabrina in first round - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News & Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis & Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.com\/?p=8850\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"London Olympics: Saina Nehwal beats Sabrina in first round - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News & Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis & Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"London: Saina Nehwal brought some respite to the high profile Indian badminton contingent which have its mixed doubles pair of Jwala Gutta and V Diju on the brink of elimination with a straight games victory over Sabrina Jacquet of Switzerland 21-9, 21-4 in her first match of the event. 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