Young Indian shuttler Kidambi Srikanth continued his rampaging run in Kowloon and set up a semifinal clash with top seed Chinese Chen Long at the Hong Kong Super Series. Kidambi SrikanthAfter Indias campaign in the womens singles came to an end following Saina Nehwals shocking loss to Tai Tzu Ying of Chinese Taipei in the quarterfinals, Srikanth brought back cheers to the home camp with a 21-14, 21-15 win over Hong Kongs Wei Nan in the mens singles event. Newly-crowned China Open champion, Saina, seeded third, went down 15-21, 19-21 to World No. 9 Ying in just 39 minutes. However, Srikanth, who had become the first Indian to win a Super Series Premier event at Fuzhou last week, had no difficulty in seeing off World No. 21 Wei in a 36-minute quarterfinal match.
Posted on: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 16:42:02 +0000
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