Biography – Saina Nehwal
Biography
Born : 17th of March 1990
Saina Nehwal is regarded as the prolific Indian Badminton player and
she is arguably the best female Indian Badminton player currently in
India. She has achieved some remarkable feats in past one year like
achieving the 2nd ranking in the world, winning three
International tournaments back to back and upsetting top seeded players
in World Badminton. Her biggest achievement is that she became the first
Indian woman to reach the Quart Final round at the Olympic Games. She
was awarded Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award this year for her magnificent
performance in International tournaments.
Saina Nehwal belongs to the Hisar in Haryana and she got her
badminton genes from both of her parents including Dr. Harvir Singh and
mother Usha Rani. Her parents were former State Badminton Champions. Dr.
Harvir Singh encouraged her daughter to took up game of badminton.
Saina started playing badminton at a tender age of 8 under the careful
eyes of her coach Nani Prasad. She adopted a tough training schedule
from the beginning. She was trained further under S.M. Arif who is a
Dronacharya Award winning Badminton Coach. The Pullela Gopichand’s
Academy of Badminton became the training ground of Saina Nehwal where
she had developed her game and polished her skills.
She won the National Junior Championship in the year 2004, and
defended it again in 2005. She won the National Senior Championship in
2006 and successfully repeated it in 2007 again. In addition to this,
she has also won the All India Jr. Ranking Tournaments held at Chennai
in 2005 and All India Senior Ranking Tournament at Mumbai. She was also
the clear winner at the National Games that took place at Guwahati.
Saina has shown her mettle at the international badminton scene by
defeating many top seeded players. She won the Super Series tournament,
by clinching the Indonesian
open in 2009 with victory over higher-ranked Chinese Wang Lin. She
continued her winning streak by winning second Super Series title of her
career and won Singapore Open title on June 20, 2010. She completed her
hat trick of title by winning Indonesian Open on June 27, 2010.
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