Friday, Apr 19, 2024 | Last Update : 08:42 AM IST
Saina Nehwal, Kidambi Srikanth cruise into semis
Kidambi Srikanth returns to South Korea’s Kwang Hee-Heo in their Australian Open quarter-final in Sydney on Thursday. Srikanth won 21-18, 21-17. (Photo: AFP )
Kidambi Srikanth returns to South Korea’s Kwang Hee-Heo in their Australian Open quarter-final in Sydney on Thursday. Srikanth won 21-18, 21-17. (Photo: AFP )
Saina Nehwal dug deep for a fighting win over Thai rival Ratchanok Intanon while Kidambi Srikanth too continued his good run to make the semi-finals of the $750,000 Australian Super Series badminton tournament in Sydney on Friday.
In an exciting quarter-final between Olympic bronze medallist Saina and 2013 world champion Ratchanok, it was the seventh seeded Indian who upstaged the second seed 28-26, 21-16 after a 56-minute women’s singles battle. Saina will next take on the winner of the match between fourth seed Wang Yihan and eighth seed Tai Tzu Ying.
In the men’s singles, world no. 13 Srikanth disposed of Korea’s Kwang Hee Heo 21-18, 21-17 in 36 minutes.
The Guntur lad will next take on Denmark’s Hans-Kristian Vittinghus on Saturday.
