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Badminton World Championships — Kidambi Srikanth beats Lakshya Sen to reach the finals Live Blog, Updates, Score, Results
The BWF Badminton World Championships will have an all-Indian semifinal clash in the men's singles event on Saturday. Catch all the latest updates and blog only at The Bridge
Kidambi Srikanth (Source: BWF/Badmintn Photo)
BWF World Championship 2021: History was created on Saturday night when Kidambi Srikanth became the first Indian male badminton player to reach the final of BWF World Championship and ensure at least a silver medal, after he defeated his Indian counterpart 20-year-old Lakshya Sen by 17-21, 21-14, 21-17.
Srikanth is playing in his 6th BWF World Championships, never having reached the semi-finals before. Lakshya Sen has made the semifinals in his first attempt. Sen would also be remembering his outing winning a bronze in his maiden World Championships.
Catch updates of the final live on this link.
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Live Updates
- 18 Dec 2021 4:02 PM GMT
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.
- 18 Dec 2021 3:36 PM GMT
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.
- 18 Dec 2021 3:29 PM GMT
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.
