Kidambi Srikanth Journey Stop after the Lost

Kidambi Srikanth lost his quarter-final match Chen Long of China, in the Malaysia Open.
Kidambi Srikanth Journey Stop after the Lost

Srikanth Kidambi is an Indian badminton player. He trains at the Gopichand Badminton Academy, Hyderabad and is supported by the Go Sports Foundation. In April 2018, he became the highest ranked men's badminton player in the world.

He is also sponsored by Yonex. In 2018, he was awarded the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian award.

The shuttler Srikanth, who has long been waiting for the title in the last two years, has increased. Eighth seed Srikanth had to face the defeat of Olympic champion Chen Long of China in the quarterfinals of the Malaysian Open badminton championship on Friday.

Srikanth, who reached the final at the India Open last week, lost to Chen 18-21, 19-21 in a fierce contest. It was Srikanth fourth quarter-final of this season. With the defeat, the Indian challenge ended in the tournament.

Srikanth, who made 16-11 in the first game, gave the opponent a chance to return. After trailing 7-11 in the second game, he returned and took the score 19-19, but could not win. Srikanth sixth defeat in seven bouts against this Long. Srikanth had defeated him only once in the Australian Open 2017.

In the first game, Srikanth made an 11-7 lead on the first break and soon it was 16-11. After this, Long started the return and scored the score 17-17. They won the first game by returning to the cross court. In the second game, long made 11-7 lead by the break.

Srikanth made some mistakes, which led to Long's rise of 16-8. Srikanth performed a long rally while Long's shot went out. After this, long lost a few more points, making Srikanth the lead of 17-11. Once the score was 18-18 and then 19-19, long won the match point and entered the semi-finals.

Srikanth went down in straight games 18-21, 19-21 in the 48-minute contest.

The 26-year-old was the lone Indian left in the tournament as ace shuttlers P.V. Sindhu, Saina Nehwal, and H.S. Prannoy had crashed out earlier.

The Chinese showed great defense, playing some exceptional shots like a between-the-legs return to keep the spectators entertained at the Kuala Lumpur Sports City.

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