Noida: A nine-month title draught notwithstanding, Saina Nehwal today vowed to bounce back strongly at next month's world championship and said the much-needed six-week break after the Southeast Asia

Northern Ireland's golfer Rory McIlroy says he is thriving on the pressure of being World No.1 and will be hard to beat if he brings his 'A' game to the $6 million Singapore Open next month.

McIlroy

Saina Nehwal became the biggest women's casualty when she fell in three sets to world number 10 Cheng Shao-Chieh of Taiwan in a day of carnage, that saw top men's seed Taufik Hidayat crashing out and