Saina sustained the knee injury in August and it got aggravated during the Rio Olympics. Pic/Getty Images

India badminton star Saina Nehwal (26) is currently working very hard at her Hyderabad home to recover from a surgical repair of a chipped right knee. But contrary to popular belief that the injury will have Nehwal on the backfoot, the man who has helped her onto her feet, city-based Sir HN Reliance Foundation Hospital's head of sports medicine, Heath Matthews, believes she will be a much better player than what she was before the injury at the Rio Olympics.