After falling to Singapore’s Loh Kean Yew in a straight games match in the pre-quarterfinals on Thursday, former champion Kidambi Srikanth withdrew from the Denmark Open Super 750 competition.
Kidambi Srikanth Loses in the Pre-Quarterfinals of the Denmark Open
After 35 minutes of play, Srikanth was defeated by the opponent who was the seventh seed, 13-21, 15-21.
This title was won in 2017 by Srikanth, who will represent India at the 2021 World Championships. Before their encounter on Thursday, their previous meetings had ended in a tie.
In the round of 16 of the men’s doubles competition, Indonesia’s Muhammad Shohibul Fikri and Maulana Bagas were defeated by Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, ranked seventh in the competition, 21-14, 21-16, to proceed to the quarterfinals.
In the quarterfinals, the Malaysian team of Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik, who are seeded fourth overall, will be up next for the Indian team.
Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand’s women’s doubles team and Ishaan Bhatnagar and Tanisha Crasto’s mixed doubles team both withdrew from the competition before to the quarterfinals.
Ishaan and Tanisha fell 16-21 10-21 to the second-seeded Japanese team of Yuta Watanabe and Arisa Higashino, while Treesa and Gayatri were defeated 21-23-13-21 by the sixth-seeded Thai pair of Jongkolphan Kititharakul.
An Indian player of badminton, Srikanth Kidambi was born on February 7, 1993. The fourth-highest civilian honour in India, the Padma Shri, was given to former world number one Kidambi in 2018.
along with the 2015 Arjuna Award. He made history in 2021 when he advanced to the men’s singles World Championship final for the first time ever.
On February 7, 1993, a Telugu family welcomed Srikanth Nammalwar Kidambi into the world at Ravulapalem, Andhra Pradesh. Radha, his mother, is a stay-at-home mom, and KVS Krishna, his father, is a landlord. Badminton player and junior national champion K. Nandagopal, his older brother, also competes alongside him. Before moving to the Gopichand Academy in 2008 to continue his work, they had lived in the same home.