BWF World Championships LIVE: Kidambi Srikanth vs Lu Guang Zu LIVE – Former World No.1 eyes glory, seeks quarters berth after bright start – Kidambi Srikanth continues to shine at the BWF World Championships and sealed his quarter-final berth in some style on Thursday in Madrid. Facing China’s lu Guang Zu, the former World No.1 was at his very best as he steamrolled into a 21-10, 21-15 straight-sets win. Kidambi Srikanth will now face against Netherlands’ Mark Caljouw in the quarter-finals. Follow Insidesport.in for all BWF World Championship LIVE Updates.
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Game 2
- Game. Set. Match. Srikanth powers through to a convincing 21-10, 21-15 win to reach the quarterfinals.
- Srikanth takes the match point. 20-15.
- Srikanth adds more points to his kitty, leads 18-13 in Game 2.
- The Chinese shuttler wins three straight points, but Srikanth still leads 15-12.
- Srikanth continues to dominate, creates a six-point cushion to lead 14-9.
- Lu Guang Zu continues to put up a fight, but Srikanth adds to his lead, ahead 11-8 heading into the break.
- Lu Guang Zhu threatens, but Srikanth maintains the two-point buffer. Indian ace leads 8-6.
- The Indian ace continues to be a step ahead, maintains a two-point lead with scores et at 6-4.
- Srikanth takes an early lead, goes 4-2 ahead in Game 2.
Game 1
- Srikanth keeps his cool and seals Game 1 21-10 to go 1-0 up in the contest.
- Srikanth continues to dominate, takes 19-10 lead.
- The former World No.1 seals back to back points, goes 15-7 ahead.
- Lu Guang Zu and Kidambi Srikanth trade points, Indian ace maintains a six-point lead. 13-7
- Srikanth continues to dominate, creates a seven-point buffer to go 11-4 at the break.
- The Indian ace continues to be a step ahead of his opponent, leads 8-4.
- Srikanth takes the next two points, and battles to maintain a two-point lead. Srikanth leads 5-3.
- Srikanth, Guang Zu level after early exchanges. Scores tied at 2-2.
Kidambi Srikanth is one of the few seeded Indian players and he showed his class as he progressed into the round of 16. The Indian ace clinched an opening round 21-12, 21-16 win over Pablo Abian, before following it up with a come from behind 15-21, 21-18, 21-17 to make it to the pre-quarters. Srikanth will now face a stern test in Lu Guang Zu and will hope to make it to the quarterfinals of the BWF World Championships. The duo have met only once previously with Srikanth winning the clash at the Indian Open back in 2019.
Kidambi Srikanth battled past Li Shi Feng in the next round of the ongoing BWF World Championships on Tuesday in Huelva. Playing on court 2 former world number one Indian defeated Chinese shuttler by 15-21, 21-18, 21-17 in a thrilling contest that lasted for 70 minutes. The seeded 12th Indian was stunned in the first game as Feng took the game by 21-15. He will face Lu Guang Zu, who got the better of the fourth seed Chou Tien Chen.
BWF World Championships LIVE: Kidambi Srikanth vs Lu Guang Zu LIVE – Former World No.1 eyes glory, seeks quarters berth after bright start – Follow LIVE Updates
Asian Games bronze medallist and badminton coach Vimal Kumar believes that Kidambi Srikanth is back to his very best and the BWF World Championships could very well be in his grasp, especially with the fourth seed now knocked out of contention.
Speaking to Insidesport, Vimal Kumar said, “Srikanth has been really impressive. The way he is moving and striking the shuttle shows he is really enjoying at the moment. It will not be easy against the Chinese shuttler but if Srikanth starts well, he should be able to put it across his rival.”
