Saina Nehwal remains as WS World No.2 . Processed on 02-Dec-2010, Saina Nehwal remains as WS World No.2. Tine Baun of Denmark is now placed as World No.1. http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/ranking/category.aspx?id=1806&category=473 .
congrats for saina winning in the final after beaten wang shi xian she should improve her backhand push.
Congratulations, Saina Nehwal! I hope she can take this kind of positive gameplay into big tournaments like the AE, WC and Asian Games... otherwise she'll be hard-pressed to ever win a major... see the difference between the WC and this one?
2010 Hong Kong Open SS: Saina Nehwal won !!! . Congratulations to Saina Nehwal for winning the 2010 Hong Kong Open SS Womens Singles title. .
Good response. She will be much more famous that her counterpart in tennis(Sania) if SN keeps playing like this. Edit: Actually she is already making more $$$ from ads compared to Sania Mirza. Hope she can eleveated badminton in India to a new level.
Great job by beating the hottest or arguably the best woman player right now to win the HK Open. Even though I like WSX, but I also like to see a non-Chinese player able to challenge the Chinese WS players to make it more fun to watch.
..if referring to Saina, then yes; in fact, she won 3 consecutive tourneys during that span (the India Open and the INA Open SS were the others, with S'pore Open SS sandwiched in between)..
I mentioned in the HKSS Finals thread that Gillian Clark said Saina is the 6th highest earning sportsperson, only behind them superstar cricketers. Now, that's amazing considering how much money is poured into cricket.
I don't find Gillian's comment easy to digest. Yes, cricketers are making lot of money, but Saina right after them! I don't think so. There are few tennis players (Leander Paes/Mahesh Bhupathi) and chess player (Vishwanathan Anand) who definitely earn more money. Perhaps she was talking of year 2010. Badminton is still some way to go in India.
Badminton is still some way to go in India . Yes, Gillian was only talking about this year, the year of 2010. .
We should ask her what exactly she means. I'm sure there must be many more than 6 cricket players making than Saina
Whatever she earned, Saina has progressed far this year compared to just about a year ago during the Super Series Finals 2009. All she needs now is a bit more on the soft touch deception to be complete. It always seemed that Saina worked the points too hard by applying power and speed all the time, and while it worked in HK, it could also backfire like in Guangzhou and almost did in CWG.
Saina is getting many sponsors this year, 2010 . No, SN is getting many sponsors this year, 2010. Only a few cricketers managed to get more than her. I have read articles from India about this. I haven't saved any of those articles, otherwise I would have given you all the links. I am sure SN will get the World No. 1 ranking one day; Then perhaps she can outdo Indian cricketers. .
Yes, fingers crossed, India's no. 1 seat is ranked no 26 [Chetan Anand] so our only hope for now, to achieve the no.1 seat would be SN... Any idea which tournament is the most prestigious in badminton? I think it is the Yonex All England held every year.
