Saina Nehwal celebrates after defeating Tine Baun of Denmark at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
Saina Nehwal is an Indian Khel Ratna badminton player currently ranked 5 in the world by Badminton World Federation. She was born in a Jat family in Dhindar, Hisar district, Haryana, India on March 17, 1990 . Saina is supported by the Olympic Gold Quest. Saina is the first Indian to reach the Semi-finals of a Badminton tournament in Olympics. She achieved it at the London Olympics 2012 on 2 August 2012. She is the first Indian to win the World Junior Badminton Championships. Saina Nehwal made history on June 21, 2009, becoming the first Indian to win a Super Series tournament, by clinching the Indonesia Open with a victory over higher-ranked Chinese Wang Lin in Jakarta.
Saina won her second career Super Series title by winning the Singapore Open title on June 20, 2010. She completed a hat-trick in the same year by winning the Indonesian Open on June 27, 2010. This win resulted in her rise to 3rd ranking and subsequently to No. 2. Later in the same year she also won Hong Kong Super Series on December 12, 2010. After experiencing a poor 2011 season, Saina become the first Indian singles player to reach the summit stage of year-ending Super Series Finals defeating two-time All England champion and former World No. 1 Tine Baun in the semi-finals. A feat, that she repeated in the quarterfinals in the London Olympics 2012.
Siana Nehwal reached Semi Finals at the 2012 London Olympics after defeating Sabrina Jaquet of Switzerland and Lianne Tan of Belgium in the group phase, Yao Jie of Netherlands in the pre-quarters and Tine Baun of Denmark in the quarters.
On 17 June 2012, Saina Nehwal won the Indonesia Open Super Series by defeating World No. 3 Li Xuerui of China 13-21, 22-20 21-19. This is her 3rd Indonesia Open title
Previously coached by S. M. Arif, a Dronacharya Award winner, Saina is the reigning Indian national junior champion and is currently coached by Indonesian badminton legend Atik Jauhari since August 2008, with the former All England champion and national coach Pullela Gopichand being her mentor.
Saina Nehwal was born in a Jat family to Dr Harvir singh Nehwal and Usha Nehwal in the city of Hisar, Haryana and completed first few years of her schooling from Campus School. Her Father, Dr Harvir singh originally hails from village "Dhindar" which falls under Modinagar Tehsil in District Ghaziabad(U.P). Harvir singh initially worked in CCS HAU and they then had their residence in the University Campus. He later shifted to Hyderabad & so Saina spent her growing years in Hyderabad, India. Her foray into the world of badminton was influenced by her father Dr. Harvir Singh, a scientist at the Directorate of Oilseeds Research, Hyderabad and her mother Usha Nehwal, both of whom were former badminton champions in Haryana. She is the top ranked player (women) in Indian Badminton history. In 2012, journalist and former NDTV editor T S Sudhir wrote a biography on Saina
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