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Saina Nehwal is now World No. 2

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NEW DELHI: Ace Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal is just a step away from realising her goal of becoming the world's numero uno player as she jumped one place to a career-best second in the latest international rankings. "I am very happy to achieve the world number two so soon in my career. The last three wins have really helped me. It is a great feeling but I feel my priority still will be to win more tournaments for India rather than focussing on ranking," Saina said. "It will be difficult to hold on to the ranking but I hope to continue my hard work and win more titles and become the number one player soon," said the Hyderabadi shuttler, who is down with fever and cold. The 20-year-old Saina made a meteoric rise following her back-to-back title triumphs at the India Open Grand Prix and the Singapore Open Super Series, reaching the world number three last month. And after the Indian defended her Indonesian Open Super Series crown to complete her hat-trick of titles, it was just a matter of time that she jumped to the second place. By virtue of the consecutive title wins, Saina now has 64791.2637 points and is just behind Chinese Yihan Wang, while Xin Wang of China is in the third place. Saina's father Harvir Singh also expressed happiness and hoped her daughter can continue her good work for the country. "God has been kind. It is a marvellous achievement. I hope she can continue to work hard and win more laurels for the country," Harvir Singh said. In March, Saina had attained the fifth position after becoming the first Indian woman to reach the semifinals of the prestigious All England Super Series Championships. However, she dropped to the sixth position in the subsequent weeks. Saina's next engagement will be in the World badminton Championship in Paris next month, before playing the Commonwealth Games and Asian Games.
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She is amazing. Indias second best sportsman after god. I love this girl
As much as I am also fan of SRT, its unfair to compare Saina with SRT, or people across sports ( in case you were referring to SRT). Just like you cant compare VishAnand to Prakash Padukone to SRT to PT Usha. Ask SRT and he would concur that Saina's must have worked harder than SRT :). IMO in individual sports she is best (achievement wise) Indian sportsperson so far. Try to name another Indian, esp. who at her age, achieved world#2 that too in such a highly competitive sport as Badminton. If you have ever seen top asian players ( chinese, japs, indonesian etc) play badminton, you would know the magnitude of her achievement. Its inevitable that she is going to be #1 this year itself (in fact there is hardly any skill difference between #1 and #2, its just matter of time and a long enough good run).
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As much as I am also fan of SRT, its unfair to compare Saina with SRT, or people across sports ( in case you were referring to SRT). Just like you cant compare VishAnand to Prakash Padukone to SRT to PT Usha. Ask SRT and he would concur that Saina's must have worked harder than SRT :). IMO in individual sports she is best (achievement wise) Indian sportsperson so far. Try to name another Indian, esp. who at her age, achieved world#2 that too in such a highly competitive sport as Badminton. If you have ever seen top asian players ( chinese, japs, indonesian etc) play badminton, you would know the magnitude of her achievement. Its inevitable that she is going to be #1 this year itself (in fact there is hardly any skill difference between #1 and #2, its just matter of time and a long enough good run).
Vishwanathan Anand. We also have Leander Paes and Mahesh BHupathi in Tennins (DOubles) I hope she gets us an olympic medal :icflove:
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Vishwanathan Anand. We also have Leander Paes and Mahesh BHupathi in Tennins (DOubles) I hope she gets us an olympic medal :icflove:
There all good. But in reality Anand is not even playing a sport and Paes and Bhupathi are in doubles which are for the not so good tennis players. Nehwal is a freaking legend and is a lesson for all indians in hard worlk and committment. She shuns the media to focus on winning. I pray she wins in London olympics and up ciming world champs. Also note she gave up being a veggie 2 years ago and then the power came:giggle:
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I did not intend it to become a comparison thread.. we already see comparison across eras.. combine it with across sport and its even worse. (that too without even caring about numerous other factors, like individual/double, level of competition.. etc etc). So, for me all these people stand at same level.. And for Saina, "King Tendulkar" said it right - she is a freaking legend.. and time will prove why she is.. on side note - chess is recognized by IOC ( olympic committee) as a sport.. This is not to start a debate, but that is a fact I gathered from google.

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