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Saina Nehwal

Saina Nehwal is an Indian professional badminton player and she is the former world no 1 and is included in the top ten world ranking badminton player in the world. She is the first Indian female and second Indian player after Prakash Padukone to attain the world no 1 ranking. She has also represented India in Olympics and has also won bronze medal in Olympics. She also holds the record to be the only Indian to have won at least a medal in every BWF major individual event and she is also the youngest Indian to win a 4- star tournament. In the 2014 Uber Cup, she captained the Indian team and remained undefeated and won the bronze medal. For all her contribution in the sport of badminton, she has received many awards and recognition. In 2016, she was conferred by the Government of India with Padma Bhushan. She has also received the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award ad Arjuna Award.

Born on 17^th March 1990 in Hisar town of Haryana, she was born to Harvir Singh and Usha Rani. Her father worked in Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University in Hisar. Nehwal started her schooling from the Campus School located inside the Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University and later the family moved to Hyderabad and later she completed her schooling from St Anne’s College Mehdipatnam in Hyderabad. Since her childhood, she was interested in badminton and she was coached by Nani Prasad and later she started to get coached by award winning badminton coach S. M. Arif. She rose to popularity in 2006 after winning the Under 19 national championships and later won the Asian Satellite Badminton twice. She then won the Philippines Open tournament and also performed well in several junior tournaments. She was the runner up at the BWF World Junior Championship of 2006 and later in 2008 she won the World Junior Badminton Championships and later she reached at the quarter finals at the Beijing Olympics. After the Beijing Olympics, she participated in the Chinese Taipei Open and won the tournament. She continued her form and later in 2009, she won the Indonesia Open and became the first Indian player to do so. Then in 2010, she reached to the semifinals of All England Super Series and later won the Singapore Open Super Series and later also won the Indonesian Open. In 2010, she participated in the Commonwealth Games held in New Delhi and won the gold medal in the women’s singles category and rounded off the year after winning the Indonesian Super Series title. Later in 2011, she reached in the final stage of several tournaments and later won the Swiss Open, Thailand Open Grand Prix, Indonesian Open Super Series and the 2012 Denmark Open Super Series. She then participated in the 2012 London Olympics and won the bronze medal in the women’s singles category. SainaNehwal won the singles title at the India Open Grand Prix on 26 January 2014 and reached the quarter finals of the All England Super Series Premier. The same year, she emerged as the winner of the women’s singles tournament at the Australian Super Series and also became the world’s 7th ranked player after winning that tournament. Nehwal also won the China Open Super Series that year.In 2015, SainaNehwal won the women’s singles event at the Indian Open Grand Prix Gold and in the final; she beat Spanish player Carolina Marina. At the All England Badminton Open Championships the same year, Marina beat Nehwal in the final. The same year, Nehwal won the singles event at the India Open BWF Super Series and became the number 1 women’s player in the Badminton World Federation rankings.

SainaNehwal is unmarried and for her contribution in the sport of badminton, she has received many awards and recognition. In 2016, she was conferred by the Government of India with Padma Bhushan. She has also received the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award ad Arjuna Award.

Spain Masters: Saina Nehwal, Sameer Verma Enter Quarterfinals, Kidambi Srikanth Loses to Ajay Jayaram
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Spain Masters: Saina Nehwal, Sameer Verma Enter Quarterfinals, Kidambi Srikanth Loses to Ajay Jayaram
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Barcelona Spain Masters: Saina Nehwal Advances to Second Round, HS Prannoy’s Poor Form Continues
India.com Sports Desk | February 19, 2020 8:22 PM IST
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Barcelona Spain Masters: Saina Nehwal Advances to Second Round, HS Prannoy’s Poor Form Continues
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Saina Nehwal And PV Sindhu Led The Meteoric Rise of Badminton in India: Chirag Shetty
India.com Sports Desk | February 7, 2020 6:54 PM IST
Doubles specialist Chirag Shetty has credited Olympic medallists Saina Nehwal and PV Sindhu for lead...
Saina Nehwal And PV Sindhu Led The Meteoric Rise of Badminton in India: Chirag Shetty
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Saina Nehwal Has to Get Her Confidence Back, She's in Tight Spot For Olympic Qualification: Parupalli Kashyap
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Saina Nehwal Has to Get Her Confidence Back, She's in Tight Spot For Olympic Qualification: Parupalli Kashyap
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Has Jwala Gutta Taken a Jibe at Saina Nehwal For Joining BJP Ahead of Delhi Elections 2020?
India.com Sports Desk | January 29, 2020 9:28 PM IST
India's most successful doubles player Jwala Gutta has on Wednesday taken to Twitter and made a cryp...
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Saina Nehwal Joins BJP, May Campaign For Delhi Elections
India.com Sports Desk | January 29, 2020 6:43 PM IST
Former World No. 1 badminton player Saina Nehwal on Wednesday joined the BJP, a move which will see ...
Saina Nehwal Joins BJP, May Campaign For Delhi Elections
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Badminton Player Saina Nehwal Joins BJP Ahead of Delhi Assembly Election
India.com News Desk | January 29, 2020 12:28 PM IST
New Delhi: Ahead of Delhi assembly election 2020 which is slated to be held on February 8, Badminton...
Badminton Player Saina Nehwal Joins BJP Ahead of Delhi Assembly Election
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PV Sindhu's Form Not a Worry, Saina Nehwal And Kidambi Srikanth Need to Buck up, Says Pullela Gopichand on Tokyo Roadmap
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After becoming the first Indian shuttler to win the coveted BWF World Championship title last year, ...
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Thailand Masters: Saina Nehwal Suffers Defeat in First Round as India's Campaign Ends
India.com Sports Desk | January 22, 2020 5:47 PM IST
Top Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal suffered a second consecutive opening round defeat as she went down...
Thailand Masters: Saina Nehwal Suffers Defeat in First Round as India's Campaign Ends
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Thailand Master 2020: Kidambi Srikanth, Sameer Verma Make First-Round Exits; Saina Nehwal, HS Prannoy In Action Later Today
India.com Sports Desk | January 22, 2020 10:24 AM IST
The Indian badminton woes continue in 2020 as well with yet another first-round exits for Indian shu...
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India.com Sports Desk | January 20, 2020 2:39 PM IST
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Indonesia Masters 2020: PV Sindhu Advances to Second Round, Defending Champ Saina Nehwal Crashes Out
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World champion PV Sindhu advanced to the second round of the Indonesia Masters with a hard-earned vi...
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Indonesia Masters 2020: Saina Nehwal, Kidambi Srikanth Fall In First Round; Doubles Pair of Pranaav Chopra, Sikki Reddy Also Ousted
India.com Sports Desk | January 15, 2020 1:38 PM IST
India's campaign at the Indonesia Masters 2020 began on a worst possible manner with the like of Kid...
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Saina Nehwal, PV Sindhu On Track to Face Each Other in Round 2 of Indonesia Masters
India.com Sports Desk | January 13, 2020 2:05 PM IST
Saina Nehwal and PV Sindhu are likely to lock horns in Round 2 of the Indonesia Masters Super 500 to...
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Begged Saina Nehwal Not to Leave My Academy: Pullela Gopichand Opens Up on Tough Times
India.com Sports Desk | January 12, 2020 3:26 PM IST
Saina Nehwal leaving the stables of Pullela Gopichand was a much-talked about story in Indian badmin...
Begged Saina Nehwal Not to Leave My Academy: Pullela Gopichand Opens Up on Tough Times
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Malaysia Masters 2020: Saina Nehwal Enters Quarters, to Face Long-Time Rival Carolina Marin
India.com Sports Desk | January 9, 2020 2:12 PM IST
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Malaysia Masters 2020: Saina Nehwal Enters Quarters, to Face Long-Time Rival Carolina Marin
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BWF Malaysia Masters 2020: Saina Nehwal, PV Sindhu Through to Second Round; B Sai Praneeth, Kidambi Srikanth Bow Out
India.com Sports Desk | January 8, 2020 4:59 PM IST
Ace Indian women shuttlers PV Sindhu and Saina Nehwal registered convincing wins to sail into the se...
BWF Malaysia Masters 2020: Saina Nehwal, PV Sindhu Through to Second Round; B Sai Praneeth, Kidambi Srikanth
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Malaysia Masters 2020: Kidambi Srikanth Knocked Out After Losing 17-21, 5-21 to Chou Tien Chen in Round 1
India.com Sports Desk | January 8, 2020 1:50 PM IST
Kidambi Srikanth's Olympic qualification took a severe blow after he was knocked out of the Malaysia...
Malaysia Masters 2020: Kidambi Srikanth Knocked Out After Losing 17-21, 5-21 to Chou Tien Chen in Round 1
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Malaysia Masters 2020: PV Sindhu, Indian Camp Hope to Begin New Year on Positive Note
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PV Sindhu will want to put behind the ghosts of 2019 and start afresh as she beings her campaign at ...
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Year-Ender 2019, Indian Badminton: PV Sindhu Becomes World Champion, Lakshya Sen Continues His Rise
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A momentous gold at the world championships more than made up for PV Sindhu's otherwise ordinary run...
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