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Saina Nehwal
Saina Nehwal
Personal information
Date of birth:March 17, 1990 (1990-03-17) (age 18)
Place of birth:Hisar, Haryana, India
Women's singles
Country:India
Handedness:Right
Coach:Pullela Gopichand
Highest Ranking:10 (December 5, 2008)
Current Ranking:10 (December 5, 2008)
Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, She won the 2006 Phillipines Open to become first Indian woman to win a four-star badminton event. Entering the tournament as the 86th seed, Saina went on to stun several top seeded players including number seed Huaiwen XU before defeating Julia Xian Pei Wong of Malaysia for the title. She was also the runner up at the 2006 BWF World Junior Championships.In the month of June, she qualified to the quarter final of Thailand Open Grand Prix Gold and the semi-final of the Singapore Super Series 2008.She was a silver medallist at the last edition in Incheon, South Korea in 2006. She became the first Indian woman to reach the quarter finals at the Olympic Games when she upset world number five and fourth seed Wang Chen of Hong Kong. She also won the Yonex Chinese Taipei Grand Prix in September, her second GP.In the recently concluded Commonwealth Youth Games, Nehwal continued to shine as she clinched the gold.
Coach:Pullela Gopichand
Highest Ranking:10 (December 5, 2008)
Current Ranking:10 (December 5, 2008)
Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, She won the 2006 Phillipines Open to become first Indian woman to win a four-star badminton event. Entering the tournament as the 86th seed, Saina went on to stun several top seeded players including number seed Huaiwen XU before defeating Julia Xian Pei Wong of Malaysia for the title. She was also the runner up at the 2006 BWF World Junior Championships.In the month of June, she qualified to the quarter final of Thailand Open Grand Prix Gold and the semi-final of the Singapore Super Series 2008.She was a silver medallist at the last edition in Incheon, South Korea in 2006. She became the first Indian woman to reach the quarter finals at the Olympic Games when she upset world number five and fourth seed Wang Chen of Hong Kong. She also won the Yonex Chinese Taipei Grand Prix in September, her second GP.In the recently concluded Commonwealth Youth Games, Nehwal continued to shine as she clinched the gold.
Sania Mirza
Sania Mirza (born November 15, 1986) is an Indian tennis player. She was born in Mumbai but brought up in Hyderabad. Coached by her father Imran Mirza, she began playing tennis at the age of six, turning professional in 2003. She was the highest ranked female tennis player ever from India, with career high rankings of number 31 in singles and 24 in doubles. She is now ranked 48th in singles and 38th in doubles as of April 9th, 2007.
She became the first Indian woman to reach the fourth round of a Grand Slam tournament at the 2005 US Open, defeating Mashona Washington, Maria Elena Camerin and Marion Bartoli. In 2004, she finished runner up at the Asian Tennis Championship.
In 2005 Mirza reached the third round of the Australian Open, losing to eventual champion Serena Williams. On February 12, 2005, she became the first Indian woman to win a WTA singles title, defeating Alyona Bondarenko of Ukraine in the Hyderabad Open Finals.
Sania won the Wimbledon Championships Girls' Doubles title in 2003, teaming up with Alisa Kleybanova of Russia.
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