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Hylo Open Semifinals: Kidambi Srikanth, Lakshya Sen crash out of semifinals, India’s challenge ends at Hylo Open

Hylo Open Semifinals: Kidambi Srikanth, Lakshya Sen crash out of semifinals, India’s challenge ends at Hylo Open

Hylo Open SEMIFINALS: Kidambi Srikanth, Lakshya Sen crash out: Kidambi Srikanth and Lakshya Sen crashed out of Hylo Open after their semifinal losses in the Super 500 badminton tournamnet. Srikanth lost to Lee Zil Zia of Malaysia in straight games 19-21, 20-22 while Lakshya Sen lost to Loh Kean YEW of Singapore 18-21, 12-21. Follow […]

Hylo Open SEMIFINALS: Kidambi Srikanth, Lakshya Sen crash out: Kidambi Srikanth and Lakshya Sen crashed out of Hylo Open after their semifinal losses in the Super 500 badminton tournamnet. Srikanth lost to Lee Zil Zia of Malaysia in straight games 19-21, 20-22 while Lakshya Sen lost to Loh Kean YEW of Singapore 18-21, 12-21. Follow Hylo Open 2021 Live on InsideSport.in

Hylo Open Semifinals: Kidambi Srikanth, Lakshya Sen crash out from semifinals, India’s challenge ends in Germany

Kidambi Srikanth vs Lee Zil Zia 

Kidambi Srikanth started the game well, opening up a three-point gap. However, Lee Zil Zia came back and Srikanth lost the game 19-21. The second game was a thrilling encounter with both players refusing to bow down. Even though Srikanth made inroads, his opponent took another narrow 22-20 win in the second game as the match ended in 44 minutes.

Lee Zil Zia will face Loh Kean YEW in the final on Sunday.

Lakshya SEN (IND) lost to Loh Kean YEW (SIN) – 18-21, 12-21

2nd GAME STARTS

  • Singaporean wins 21-18, 21-12
  • 15-9 – LOH KEAN YEW Running away with game and match now, Indian visibly looking tired
  • 11-8 for LOW, Lakshya needs to do something special here if he wants to make comeback in this match
  • 10-8 now for Low KEAN – His down the line smashes is putting Lakshya in trouble
  • 9-8 – like in 1st game, its neck to neck in 2nd game but the Singaporean is winning big points

Hylo Open Semifinals: Kidambi Srikanth, Lakshya Sen crash out from semifinals, India’s challenge ends in Germany

1ST Game goes 21-18 in favor of LOH KEAN YEW

  • 1st game goes 21-18 in favor of Singaporean, can Indian fight back in 2nd?
  • 17-17 – Its going neck to neck / Lakshya fighting hard
  • Lakshya goes into 1st changeover with 11-10 lead

HYLO OPEN SEMIFINALS Match-ups

Srikant will now take on in-form & 2nd seed Lee Zil Zia of Malaysia, while Lakshya will Singaporean Loh Kean YEW on Saturday night.

  • 1st Semifinal – Lakshya SEN (IND) vs Loh Kean YEW (SIN)
  • 2nd Semifinal – Kidambi Srikanth (IND) vs Lee Zil Zia (MAL)

Hylo Open Semifinals: Kidambi Srikanth, Lakshya Sen crash out from semifinals, India’s challenge ends in Germany

Former World No. 1 & the sixth seed Srikanth subdued the higher ranked Hong Kong shuttler 21-11, 12-21, 21-19 in a men’s singles quarterfinal that lasted one hour four minutes.

Lakshya won against Netherlands Kulavut Vitidsarn in last Quarterfinal of the day. 20 year old Indian won 21-18, 12-21, 21-19

Hylo Open Semifinals: Kidambi Srikanth, Lakshya Sen crash out from semifinals, India’s challenge ends in Germany

As expected the Quarterfinal battle for Srikant went to the distance. Indian started with a bang as he easily won the 1st game by 21-19. Angus levelled by winning the 2nd by 21-12. The real test for Kidambi for the set No. 3. Srikanth took the early lead but once again swift looking Taiwanese player fought back by reducing the lead to 19-20. In the end Srikanth prevailed with his trademark down the line smash to win the 3rd game and match 21-19.

Srikant will now take on in-form & 2nd seed Lee Zil Zia of Malaysia in Semifinals of Hylo Open 2021 on Saturday.

Hylo Open Semifinals: Kidambi Srikanth, Lakshya Sen crash out from semifinals, India’s challenge ends in Germany

Ace Indian shuttler Kidambi Srikanth showed great determination to outwit NG Ka Long Angus in a hard fought match and cruise into the semifinal of the Hylo Open Super 500 badminton here on Friday.

The sixth seed Srikanth subdued the higher ranked Hong Kong shuttler 21-11, 12-21, 21-19 in a men’s singles quarterfinal that lasted one hour four minutes.

Srikanth, ranked 15, hardly broke a sweat in the first game, taking a 1-0 lead.

However, Indian lost momentum in the second game as the world no nine Angus levelled the proceedings. Both players dominated a game each but the decider was fought on an even keel.

In the end, Srikanth had five match points to seal the deal but the former world no one squandered four before eking out a narrow win.

With the win Srikanth levelled the head to head record against Angus. Both shuttlers now have three wins each against each other.

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Hylo Open 2021 LIVE Streaming wil be available on Disney+ Hotstar & LIVE Updates on InsideSport.in

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