India’s Saina Nehwal will be the representative for her country in the finals of the Denmark Open after she comfortably beat Gregoria Mariska Tunjung in straight games.
The first game was a sign of things to come for Nehwal as she took it in style, 21-11 before sealing the win in the second with a similar margin win 21-12.
It was still a tough match
Nehwal believes that the match was much harder than people thought it was, and explained to Badminton Europe, how it was on court.
- It is definitely tough to play with someone who is up and coming and is doing really well. She has beaten quite a few top players, Saina Nehwal said.
- It is difficult to play against someone who has quite a few tricky shots, but the fact that I was able to pick them up made a lot of difference.”
- It was tough, of course, the scoreline was like that but it was a tough match for me it was not as easy as it looked from outside.
A long wait, worthwhile
The Indian explained to BEC, her difficulty making it to a final since she had an injury two years ago.
Nehwal revealed that she will watch the rest of the days matches before preparing for a big match of her own.
- I feel great to be playing finals. I have been looking forward to playing finals in super series since I had surgery in my knee in 2016.
- I am really happy that I am now moving well and playing well after the Asian games.
- Even in the Korea Open, I lost to Okuhara (Nozomi Okuhara) and she went on to win the tournament so that was a missed chance.
- But here I am in the finals of the Denmark Open, belief makes a lot of difference and of course working on areas where I need to improve and I feel like I have done that.