Saina Nehwal won her 2nd round match with ease, as expected. She has her first challenge of the tournament in round 3 against the 10th seed, Petya Nedelcheva of Bulgaria. I just realized that she'll actually be facing Lin Wang, the 2nd seed, in the QF and not the SF. Well, let's just hope that she gets there first. Hopefully, the home crowd shows up in large numbers to egg her on. She's got the skills to win it all.
Badminton isn't really a major worldwide sport and there aren't too many great websites that I could find that would help me follow the tournament more closely. I have to rely on news of matches already played. Several websites posted the Order of Play for the first couple of days and there have been no updates since. I did dig up the info that Saina is playing her next match on Thursday. I also read somewhere that one of the organizers was pretty happy about the fact that they were able to sell 300 tickets on day 3 of the tournament. That's really sad. All this news coverage and they can't get people to come in and watch? I wonder why the place isn't packed with youngsters. Maybe people are worried about the Swine flu and are avoiding public places..... and every place in any Indian city is a public place.
Good luck Saina!!
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