Commonwealth Games champs have mix day in Seoul

It was a mix day for the Commonwealth Games singles winners as Lee Chong Wei made it to the quarter-finals, but Saina Nehwal crashed out in three games on the second day of the VICTOR Korea Open Superseries Premier in Seoul on Thursday.

Malaysian Chong Wei, who survived a scare on the opening day when Denmark’s Jan O Jorgensen took him to three games, made kimchi out of the challenge by South Korea’s Park Sung Hwan while Japan’s Sayaka Sato upset fourth seeded Saina in three games in the opening event of the new 2011 OSIM BWF World Superseries Premier.

World No. 1 Chong Wei was at the wrong end of a dubious line call from the first point of the match, but it didn’t rattle him as he kept his emotions in check to eventually beat Sung Hwan 21-14, 21-9 in just 36 minutes on the TV court.

The South Korea put up a good fight in the opening game but had no answer to Chong Wei’s devastating attacks and flicks in the second game and lost for the 10^th time in 11 meetings.

Saina (right), meanwhile, looked to be on her way to the quarter-final when she took the first game 21-17 against Sato, a player she had never previously lost to. The young Japanese girl, however, had other ideas increased the tempo from the second game.

The high pressure game paid dividends as she worked Saina round the court and the Indian lass had to work hard just to return the shuttle. The tactics eventually saw Sato (below) take the next two games 21-19, 21-11 to enter the quarter-finals where she is will play Thailand’s Porntip Buranaprasertsuk.

The 19-year-old former World Junior Championship runner-up scored one of the biggest wins of her career when she upset Germany’s  seventh seed Juliane Schenk in three games.

Porntip’s 21-16, 22-24, 21-15 was also her first ever victory over a top 10 player and will certainly give her career a big boost. The talented Porntip, who has just finished her first year at Chulalongkorn University, has already reached her highest ever world ranking at No. 23 and if she can continue her good run her, she may soon break into the top 20.

courtesy of BWF

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