Commonwealth Games: Saina Nehwal pulls out of Glasgow with fitness issues
Friday, 18 July 2014
Commonwealth Games women's singles badminton champion Saina Nehwal has pulled out of next week's Glasgow Games due to lack of fitness and failure to recover sufficiently from blisters on her feet. The Indian survived a match point in the 2010 final in New Delhi against Malaysia's Wong Mew Choo to win the gold, which helped the hosts to second on the medals table, their best finish at the quadrennial multi-sport competition. The London Olympic bronze medallist suffered blisters on her feet and a groin injury during her Australian Open Super Series victory in June. ‘I just have a few issues like not being fit and during Australia I got the blisters and got injured. It took time for me to recover and so I am withdrawing from the CWG,’ the 24-year-old told in a text message, according to Reuters.