Birmingham: Olympic bronze medallist Saina Nehwal exited the $400,000 All England Open Badminton Championships when she lost her women&rsquo;s singles quarter-final match against China&rsquo;s Shixian Wang at the National Indoor Arena here.
<img title="Saina Nehwal" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/2014/mar/Saina-Nehwal0903.jpg" alt="" /> Saina Nehwal. Pic/Getty Images.
The seventh seed lost to World No 3 Shixian 17-21, 10-21 in 43 mins of the Super Series Premier on Friday. With this win, the Chinese bettered her head-to-head with Saina to 3-4.
Fourth seed Shixian will next play compatriot and former world champion Yihan Wang in the semi-finals. This is World No 7 Saina&rsquo;s third quarter-final loss at the prestigious tournament while her previous best performances here were reaching the semi-finals in 2010 and 2013. Only two Indians, Prakash Padukone and P Gopichand, have won this tourney.

Olympic bronze medallist Saina Nehwal exited the $400,000 All England Open Badminton Championships when she lost her women&rsquo;s singles quarter-final match

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Olympic bronze medallist Saina Nehwal exited the $400,000 All England Open Badminton Championships when she lost her women&rsquo;s singles quarter-final match

Saina Nehwal falters in All-England quarters

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