<a href="https://www.mid-day.com/sports/cricket/article/australia-captain-meg-lanning-wants-to-see-cricket-at-olympics-23235901" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Olympic</a> bronze medallist <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/search/nehwal-all" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Saina Nehwal</a> showed signs of regaining her form with a sensational win over Chinese World No.9 He Bing Jiao in the Singapore Open here on Thursday.
The two-time Commonwealth Games gold winner joined compatriots <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/search/sindhu-all" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">PV Sindhu</a> and HS Prannoy in the quarter-finals of the tournament.
Saina, a London Olympics bronze medallist, prevailed 21-19, 11-21, 21-17 over the fifth seeded Chinese to make the last eight stage. It will be her first appearance in quarter-finals of a Super 500 event in over two and a half years.
She will meet Japan&rsquo;s Aya Ohori next.
The Hyderabadi has been battling a series of injuries and lack of form in the past few years, which forced her to skip the selection trials for the Commonwealth Games, in April.
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In the last three years, Saina&rsquo;s best performance had been a semi-final finish at Orleans Master Super 100 last year. She had also reached the quarter-final stage at Malaysia Masters and Barcelona Spain Masters in 2020.
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Two-time Olympic medallist Sindhu and in-form Prannoy also stormed into the quarter-finals after registering fighting wins.
Third seed Sindhu staved off a spirited challenge from Vietnam&rsquo;s World No.59 Thuy Linh Nguyen 19-21, 21-19, 21-18 in the women&rsquo;s singles competition to set up a clash with China&rsquo;s Han Yue.
Prannoy, ranked World No.19, notched up his second win in three weeks over World No.4 and third seed Chou Tien Chen of Chinese Taipei 14-21, 22-20, 21-18 in an hour and nine minute contest.
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