Badminton World Championships — Kidambi Srikanth beats Lakshya Sen to reach the finals Live Blog, Updates, Score, Results

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2️⃣ MS shuttlers- @srikidambi & @lakshya_sen who ensured record breaking medals for 🇮🇳 at #BWFWorldChampionships2021 will lock horns against each other in the historic semifinal 👊

All the best boys 💪#WorldChampionships2021#Badminton pic.twitter.com/NBb8gCMCAm

— BAI Media (@BAI_Media) December 18, 2021

Job ✅ in QFs!! Semis up next tomorrow ➡️ #BWFWorldChampionships #Huelva2021 pic.twitter.com/VvWgk1hfVy

— Kidambi Srikanth (@srikidambi) December 17, 2021

Historic all-Indian clash

Indian men's singles badminton has never seen anything like this. Prakash Padukone and Sai Praneeth (the only 2 medals Indian men have won in the World Championships) had 26 years in their middle. Now, in one year, not only are 2 Indian men assured of medals in one edition - one of them is assured to script history as the first male finalist from India.

One more match remains to be played on Court 1 before Srikanth vs Lakshya.

Kidambi Srikanth's road to semifinal

Kidambi Srikanth defeated Mark Caljouw to cruise into the semi-finals of the ongoing BWF World Championships on Friday in Huelva.

Former world number one Indian thrashed the Dutch shuttler by 21-8, 21-7 in a contest that lasted for just 26 minutes.

Here's a look at his entire road to the semifinal.

Lakshya Sen's road to semifinal

Lakshya Sen came out on top in a nail-biting match against China's Zhao Jun Peng, winning 21-15, 15-21, 22-20 in the quarterfinals.

Here's a look at his road to the semis.