Saina Nehwal's chances of qualifying for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics took a big hit after her first-round 11-21 8-21 loss to Akane Yamaguchi at the All England Championships.
PV Sindhu lost to Akane Yamaguchi 21-18, 18-21, 8-21 in her first game of the Group A game of the BWF World Tour Finals.
India's star shuttler PV Sindhu failed to go past Akane Yamaguchi once again, as she lost in straight games in the quarterfinal at Japan Open.
Indonesia Open 2019 Final Live: Get Live Scores and Updates of PV Sindhu vs Akane Yamaguchi Women's singles final Live at IndiaTV.
Morten Frost believes that although there won't be any clear favourites but he is read to stick his neck out for the young Japanese woman.
This was Nehwal's second career win over Yamaguchi, who has won six times in the head-to-head encounters between the two.
Saina was beaten in straight games by Tai Tzu in the semifinals, setting the Taipei player up against another Indian in Olympic silver-medallist PV Sindhu in the final.
Sindhu, who had finished runners-up at the Glasgow edition last year, notched up a superb 21-16 24-22 win over world number two Yamaguchi.
PV Sindhu lost to Akane Yamaguchi 21-19, 19-21, 18-21 to crash out of the USD 1000,000 All England Championship on Saturday.
In the prestigious season-ending tournament finale, Sindhu played her heart out before going down fighting 21-15, 12-21, 19-21 to Yamaguchi in an energy-sapping summit clash that lasted an hour and 31 minutes.
The match witnessed some high end to end action but it was the Japanese shuttler who won 15-21, 21-12 and 21-19 to win the Dubai Open SS finals.
Fuzhou, China: India's Olympic medal-winning shuttler Saina Nehwal, who clinched her maiden China Open Super Series Premier title Sunday, said it was a "great feeling" to win the tournament."So happy to win my 3rd title
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