Saina Nehwal is a India Badminton player born 17 March 1990 in the city of Hisar in Haryana, India. Currently ranked number 10, Saina is the first Indian woman to reach the singles quarterfinals at the Olympics and the first Indian to win the world Junior Championship. she is currently coached by Indian badminton legend gopichand at his academy in Hyderabad. In December 1998, Saina's father took her to meet Coach Nani Prasad at the Lal Bahadur Stadium in Hyderabad. Seeing potential in the girl, Prasad asked Singh to enroll Saina as a summer trainee. Harvir Singh her father and Saina, who was 8 yrs old at the time, would wake up at 6 every morning and head to the stadium which was 20 km away. After two hours of practice, Singh would drop Saina to school on his way to work. Saina would often fall asleep on these journeys which prompted her mother to accompany them for the next three months. She became the first Indian woman to reach the quarter finals at the olympic games when she upset world number five and fourth in a three-game thriller. In the quarter-finals Saina lost a nail biting 3-gamer. Saina is all set to take on the world Top ten, having been named The Most Promising Player in 2008 she reached the world super series semifinals in the month of december2008.
Now when saina returns on December 22, the welcome she deserve to receive from country and Badminton Officers was really shameful, there was no one to welcome,that show why we are at bottom of the sports. But we know one day she becomes and star and all Nation will salute her.
What we can say " WELCOME HOME SAINA, WE ARE PROUD OF YOU"
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