Fuzhou (China): Indian ace shuttler Saina Nehwal's dream of defending her women's singles title came crashing as she suffered a straight-game defeat to Olympic champion Li Xuerui in the final of the USD 700,000 China Open Super Series Premier yesterday.


Saina Nehwal

The Olympic bronze medallist Saina, committed a litany of unforced errors to go down 12-21, 15-21 against World No 7 Li in the women's singles summit clash which lasted for 39 minutes at the Haixia Olympic Sports Center here.