I heard one of her interview long time back that she will retire by 27 or 28. She is 26 now. May be 1 year more. India will lose one of the greatest players it has ever produced.
I think marija played a brilliant game against saina. .she controlled the net and played great angled shots, she must have done her home work on saina before the match. .saina on the other hand was a disaster on court, I felt something was wrong with her movement when she played her first match against the home player from Brazil but never the less the Ukrainian played fiercely, she deserves the victory. .poor saina, she will now have to face all that media backlash after returning back to India.
If Zhang Ning can win an Olympic gold at 33 and Tine Baun can become #1 at 31, why can't Saina play in Tokyo at 30?
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Did Saina injure her ankle back a couple of month ago? I hope she won't be slaughtered by the media - just a bad day for her + good day from Marija. Too bad it happened on the biggest day.
Such stroke precision in every shot from Lin D. Looks like he's going toward the road for finals with ease.
That Ukranian girl had tremendous retrieving, terrific jump smashes and she hardly made any errors. And Saina was like stiff from the pressure of expectations.
Want to appreciate LD on that Actually, umpire told LD that he has touched the shuttle and ordered him to give the shuttle to NTM.
