Kidambi Srikanth continues impressed run in Malaysia Masters, reaches semifinal-OxBig News Network

Former World No. 1 Kidambi Srikanth stormed into the semi-final of the Malaysia Masters, a Super 500 match, on Friday, May 23. Srikanth ended greater than a 12 months’s anticipate a semi-final berth in a match on the tour, beating Toma Junior Popov of France in a marathon battle within the quarterfinal.

Srikanth, ranked 65, wanted greater than an hour to beat World No. 18 Popov 24-22, 17-21, 22-20. Srikanth’s improved health has been on present in Malaysia as the previous Asian Games silver medallist has battled in intense three-game battles within the match.

“It’s been some time since I’ve received this many matches in a match and I hope I can proceed to take action. I’ve all the time been making an attempt to higher myself and this win simply proves that no matter I’m doing is working,” Srikanth stated, reflecting on his win on Friday.

Srikanth will tackle Yushi Tanaka of Japan in semi-final on Saturday. The Japanese beat France’s Christo Popov, brother of Toma Junior, 21-18 16-21 21-6 in one other males’s singles quarterfinal duel on Saturday.

The different males’s singles semifinal might be performed between fourth seed Kodai Naraoka of Japan and second seed Li Shi Feng of China.

Srikanth is now the lone surviving Indian within the BWF World Tour Super 500 match after the exit of the combined doubles pair of Dhruv Kapila and Tanisha Crasto within the quarterfinals on Friday. Kapila and Crasto gave high seed Jiang Zhen Bang and Wei Ya Xin of China a tricky struggle within the first sport however misplaced steam within the subsequent to bow out 22-24 13-21 in a 35-minute affair.

(With inputs from PTI).