Action Replay – 3 November 2017
- POSTED ON: 3 Nov, 2017
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- POSTED BY: Chari Vijayaraghavan
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It has been a fantastic year for Srikanth Kidambi – who won the Indonesian, Australian, Denmark and French Open tournaments. Just to give a background, he won the 2017 Indonesia Super Series Premier beating Japan’s Kazumasa Sakai 21-11, 21-19 thereby becoming the 1st ever Indian man to do so. He also went on to win the 2017 Australian Super Series beating China’s Chen Long 22-20, 21-16, making a record of entering three consecutive Super Series Events Finals. In October, Srikanth won the third Super Series Title of the Year at 2017 Denmark Super Series Premier, by defeating Lee Hyun-il of Korea 21-10,21-5.
Following his good run, he became only the fourth Badminton Player ever to win 4 Super Series titles in a year, when he won 2017 French Super Series equaling the likes of Lee Chong Wei, Lin Dan, and Chen Long by defeating Japan’s Kenta Nishimoto 21-14,21-13 in the finals, catapulting him to number 2 in world ranking.
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