<strong><span style="font-size: 12pt">Lower-ranked Eriko Hirose of Japan shocks World No 5 Saina 21-11, 22-20 in quarter-final</span></strong> <br /><br />  <table style="width: 139px; height: 42px" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="139" align="right" border="1">  <tbody>  <tr>  <td><img alt="" src="/imagedata/2011/mar/sai.jpg" border="0" /></td></tr>  <tr>  <td>  <p align="center"><span style="font-size: 8pt">India's Saina Nehwal returns to Japan's Eriko Hirose during their singles quarter-final of the All England Open Championships at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham on Saturday. PIC/AFP</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table>India's Saina Nehwal suffered a shock defeat against lower-ranked Japanese Eriko Hirose 11-21, 20-22 and bowed out of the All England Badminton Championships here on Saturday.<br /><br />With Saina's fall at the National Indoor Arena, the Indian challenge ended in the prestigious event. The World No 5 shuttler had defeated Hirose, ranked 17th, in the Indonesian Super Series semi-final last June but the Japanese was unstoppable here and she raced to a comfortable 15-5 lead in the first game. The second game saw neck-and-neck fight between the two but Hirose won the crucial points to seal a place in the semi-finals.<br /><br />Saina reached the semi-finals last year and was expected to make it to the finals this time after the withdrawal of World No 2 Yihan Wang, who was in the same half of the draw.

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Lower-ranked Eriko Hirose of Japan shocks World No 5 Saina 21-11, 22-20 in quarter-final

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