Ace shuttler Saina Nehwal faced the prospect of an early exit after suffering a second consecutive defeat, going down to Olympic champion Li Xuerui of China in a Group B match of the BWF World Superseries Finals here on Thursday.
A bad season only got worse for Saina as the World No 6, who has not won a single title this year, failed to recover from the opening match loss and suffered a 9-21, 14-21 defeat.
Correction
* A PTI report erroneously mentioned that Saina had defeated Minatsu Mitani of Japan in her first group match of the Super Series Finals on Thursday. The error is regretted.
Published 12 December 2013, 17:16 IST