Kidambi Srikanth needed to accept a silver medal within the remaining of the BWF World Championships after shedding 15-21, 20-22 to Loh Kean Yew of Singapore on Sunday.
In different matches, second seed Akane Yamaguchi received the ladies’s singles title. The 24-year-old Japanese shuttler defeated world No. 1 and high seed Tai Tzu Ying of Chinese Taipei in 39 minutes to win two video games 21-14, 21-11 on the Carolina Marin Stadium. Yamaguchi, at present world No. 3, has change into the second Japanese feminine participant in historical past to win the BWF World Championships title.
Second-seeded Dechapol Puwaranukroh and Sapsiri Terattanachai received the combined doubles title as they defeated third-seeded Japanese pair Yuta Watanabe and Arisa Higashino 21-13, 21-14 within the remaining match. Thailand’s gamers have received the title for the second time in historical past, whereas the primary was received by ladies’s singles participant Ratchanok Intanon, who received the gold medal within the 2013 Guangzhou version.
Chinese pair Chen Qing Chen and Jia Yi Fan defeated South Korea’s Lee Sohei and Shin Seungchan (21-16, 21-17) to win the ladies’s doubles gold, whereas Japan’s Hoki Takuro and Kobayashi Yugo received the boys’s doubles. Won the title
On Saturday, in a historic all-India males’s singles semi-final, it was 28-year-old Srikanth who had the final snort after beating Sen 17-21, 21-14, 21-17 in an hour-long thriller. 9 minutes.
Loh undoubtedly beat Viktor Axelsen in Round 1 and the shock undoubtedly closed. For somebody who got here out within the 2017 Thailand Masters beating Lin Dan horribly – even because the getting older Chinese big was licking his wounds – this world championship has been a breathless juggernaut. Still, he has received towards all the highest names – Kento Momota, Viktor Axelsen, Li Zi Jia, Chou Tien Chen and Taiwan’s Tzu-Wei lead the Worlds this December.
Sen signed with the primary bronze medalist, becoming a member of the legendary Prakash Padukone (bronze in 1983) and B Sai Praneeth (bronze in 2019) as Indian medalists within the showpiece.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
