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Saina cruises into semifinals

New Delhi: Saina Nehwal defeated Jie Liu of China to storm into the semifinals of World Junior badminton championship in Incheon, South Korea, on Thursday.

World No. 32 Saina kept the Indian hopes alive of bagging the girls' singles title after sweeping aside Jie 21-18 21-8 in 34 minutes to book a berth in the last four.

The 16-year old Saina will meet Bae Youn Joo of Korea tomorrow.

Joo was made to sweat by Wen Cheng of China but the Korean finally preavailed 10-21 21-15 21-14.

In the other semifinal, top seed Yihan Wang of China will take on another Korean Moon Hi Kim.

Saina said she was taking the tournament match by match and not thinking about the title at the moment.d

``I am playing well and I am not thinking about the title. I want to win the semifinal first. That would also be a tough match,'' she said. — PTI

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