London Olympic bronze medallist Saina Nehwal made a winning start to her campaign at the ongoing BWF World Championships 2022, beating Cheung Ngan Yi of Hong Kong in straight games on Tuesday in her first-round match in the women's singles category. 

The 2015 World championship silver medallist Saina played a hard-fought opening game where she was trailing 4-7 at one point but clawed her way back as she went into the break 10-11. After that, it was a neck-to-neck battle which the Hyderabadi shuttler won 21-19.