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Shuttler Saina Nehwal celebrates her 26th birthday

| | Mar 17, 2016, at 07:55 pm
Mumbai, Mar 17 (IBNS) Ace Indian badminton player Saina Nehwal turned a year older as the shuttler celebrates her 26th birthday on Thursday.

Saina was born in 1990 in Hisar, Haryana but later moved to Hyderabad.

A former world number one, she has a total of 21 career titles, including an Olympic bronze.

She is also the second Indian shuttler to reach world number one rank, after Prakash Padukone.

Her silver medal at 2015 World BWF championship made her the only Indian woman to do so.

She is the recipient of Arjuna Award, Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award apart from two Padma Awards.

She received the Padma Shri in 2010 and Padma Bhushan in 2016.

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