Former champion Kidambi Srikanth confronted a spirited problem from Hong Kong’s Ng Ka Long Angus to achieve the second spherical of the Denmark Open Super 750 badminton match.
Returning to the place the place he claimed the title 5 years in the past, the 2021 World Championships silver medalist received a 17-21, 21-14, 21-12 victory over world quantity 14 Hong Kong participant in a 56-minute contest registered. Coming into the match with a 3-3 face-off file, Srikanth fought onerous in opposition to Angus and was quickly left behind because the Hong Kong participant took an 11-8 lead at mid-game.
Angus didn’t enable the Indians to make a comeback within the opening recreation. In the second recreation, Srikanth took a 6-3 lead however Angus reversed it to take a 10-8 lead.
Srikanth accomplished his assignments on time and took benefit of eight consecutive factors to achieve 16-10. He maintained his composure to take the match to the decider.
In the third recreation, Srikanth blew all weapons to leap to 11-4 on the interval. He produced some good high quality pictures over the online and lined the courtroom nicely to seal the match comfortably with a pointy comeback on his opponent’s entrance courtroom.
The former world primary Indian will subsequent tackle 2021 world champion Loh Keen Yew of Singapore.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
