kidambi Srikanth

Kidambi Srikanth made history by winning Indonesia open

Star badminton player Kidambi Srikanth made history by winning Indonesia open super series title. He is the only Male Indian to win this tournament. In final he encountered with Kajumasa Sakai of Japan and defeated him by 21-11, 21-19.
Earlier on Saturday he had defeated world number one Son Van Ho of South Korea. 22 ranked Srikant beat Son in an interesting match with 21-15, 14-21, 21-22.
On the other end Sakai had entered in semifinal by beating another Indian named HS Prannoy in a close encounter of 21-17,26-18, 18-21.
HS Pranay earlier made to semifinal by surprising everyone as he beat Lee Chong Wei (Six time Champion) and beat current Olympic, world, Asian Champion of China Chaen Long.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Kidambi Srikanth on his win.

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