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Its 9-4 in the third game.Saina Nehwal has clawed her way back and now leads the contest. The local crowd is watching in disbelief. Cheung Ngan Yi won the first game in a mere 13 minutes, conceding just eight points. The gallant Indian across the net was once the world No.1.She has now slipped out of the top-10 now after knee surgery. This is only her second tournament back. She is visibly slower but the mongrel within remains ferocious. So Saina did what Saina does. Game two is pocketed. And in the decider, Yi appears helpless in the face of a sustained barrage.Its 9-4 in the third game.Even as a deluge of sports fans across the country salivate at the prospect of a semifinal against Indian badmintons reigning queen P V Sindhu, watching on TV back in Bangalore, coach Vimal Kumar can sense the sprint to the finish line wont be straightforward. Sainas legs gave way, he says after Yi completes the comeback to seize victory. It was just exhaustion.Vimal has nurtured Saina over this, by far her most challenging, period as an elite athlete. Since her Olympics dream in Rio was shattered, Saina has endured a career threatening knee surgery, one that made her wonder if it could actually force her to pull the curtains down on her playing days. Vimal marvels at what he describes as her sheer willpower to even compete again so soon after the procedure.I dont know how she has played, he chuckles admiringly. I wasnt expecting anything. She has been back on court only for three weeks.Saina herself admitted before setting off on her comeback trail that she just wanted to play without concerning herself with results. In China last week, her first comeback tournament, she was tripped in the first round by Thailands Porntip Buranaprasertsuk. But the contest lasted three games and led to a string of chirpy tweets from Saina, pleased to have competed again against a strong opponent.In Hong Kong, Saina drew Buranaprasertsuk again in the first round. This time, she extracted revenge in another three-game battle. In the pre-quarters, world number 14 Sayaka Sato was also tamed in three games. Two near hour-long, back-to-back jousts where encouragingly, her knee had held up just fine.And then came Yi - last year at the World Championships, in their only match so far, Saina had dispatched Yi 21-13 & 21-9 in just over half an hour. On Friday though, she wasnt quite as agile and Yi was around to swoop in. For 71 minutes, they jostled in a partisan arena, before the contest was settled after a thrilling cascade of twists and turns.Yi is quite an explosive player and she is a tricky opponent, she was attacking quite well throughout the match, Vimal says. I thought Saina contained her pace quite well and started dictating the pace but from 9-4 in the third game the legs gave away, the strength wasnt good enough. She needed some strength there. If she has that Saina can still push those fast rallies, retrieve and play.So what happens now? Sainas hopes of playing in the year ending Superseries Finals in Dubai in December, contested between the top eight players in the Superseries rankings, are all but extinguished. She has slipped to 11 on that rankings chart and there are no more Superseries events scheduled for the year. She has chosen instead to head to Macau next week for a Grand Prix Gold event, a lower tier tournament, because Vimal says she told him that she wanted some more competition.However, as coach, for the moment, Vimal isnt concerned with restoring her place on podiums just yet. He likes what he saw on TV on Friday. He watched his ward play without discomfort and not complain about her knee. 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