Born on March 17, 1990, Saina Nehwal is an Indian badminton player, who attained a career best ranking of 2 in December 2010 by Badminton World Federation. She is the first Indian to win a medal in Badminton at the Olympics. She achieved this feat by winning the Bronze medal at the London Olympics 2012 on 4 August 2012. She is the first Indian to win the World Junior Badminton Championships and was also the first Indian to win a Super Series tournament, by clinching the Indonesia Open on 21 June 2009. She also won the 2014 China Open Super Series Premier in November, 2014. Saina is supported by the Olympic Gold Quest.On March 7, 2015, she reached the finals of the All England Open Badminton Championship where she lost to Carolina Marin in three sets.
Saina was initially coached by S M Arif a Dronacharya Award winner, and then by Pullela Gopichand till 2014 September. Saina is the reigning Indian national champion and is currently coached by the former Indian badminton champion and national coach U. Vimal Kumar. Saina Nehwal plays for Hyderabad Hotshots in Indian Badminton League
In 2006, Saina became the under-19 national champion and created history by winning the prestigious Asian Satellite Badminton tournament (India Chapter) twice, becoming the first player to do so. In 2006, Saina appeared on the global scene when she became the second Indian woman to win a 4-star tournament, the Philippines Open. Entering the tournament as the 86th seed, Saina went on to stun several top seeded players including the then world number four Xu Huaiwen before defeating Julia Wong Pei Xian of Malaysia for the title.
Identify the Player:
Write a brief description about him in 250 words.
Questions of this week:
1. Who was the top scorer for India in the World Cup 2015 QF against Bangadesh?
2. For which team Parveen Kumar played in IPL-7?
3. Name the New Zealand cricketer who scored double century in a World Cup match against West Indies?
4. Who is the president of Jammu & Kashmir Amateur Kabaddi Association?
5. Who is Deep Das Gupta?
Answers of the last week:
1.M S Dhoni 2. Kings XI Punjab 3. Mr Goutam 4. Atul Kumar 5. International cricketer from Jharkhand.
The best entry of this week was received from Sanjay Dhar, Lane No 1, H No-3, Upper Laxmi Nagar, Sawal Jammu.
The other entries of the week were from Pritam Singh, Mishriwala, Jammu; Anirudh Sharma, Gandhi Nagar, Jammu; Anil Padha, Trikuta Nagar, Jammu; Sanjay Pardhan, Bahu Fort, Jammu and Arif Aziz, Ustad Mohalla, Jammu.
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