Indian badminton star Kidambi Srikanth defeated Jason Teh Jia Heng of Singapore 21-15, 21-18 to claim bronze in the men’s singles at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games on Sunday.
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Earlier in the day, World Championships silver medalist Kidambi suffered a 21-13, 19-21, 10-21 loss to 42nd-ranked Tze Yong NG in the other men’s singles semi-final. .
PV Sindhu, Lakshya Sen, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy/Chirag Shetty reached the final in their respective categories after winning their semi-finals at the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games on Sunday.
World No. 7 Sindhu advanced to the women’s singles final with a hard-fought 21-19, 21-17 win over Singapore’s world No. 19 Yeo Jia Min at the National Exhibition Centre.
This will be the second straight CWG final for Sindhu. She was beaten to gold by Saina Nehwal at Gold Coast in 2018. The Indian ace also has a CWG bronze medal from 2014.
The 27-year-old will face Canada’s world No. 13 Michelle Li in the final on Monday to complete the Commonwealth Games medal streak. The Indian commuter has beaten the Canadian in both games they have played this year in back-to-back matches.
In contrast, India’s top ranked badminton player Lakshya Sen won 21-10, 18-21, 21-16 in the men’s singles semi-final against Jia Heng Teh.
Victory against the Singaporean confirmed Lakshya’s progress to the final and secured him at least a silver medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. The 20-year-old will face Tze Yong NG in the singles gold medal match gentlemen.
Meanwhile Satwik Sairaj Rankireddy and world number 7 men’s doubles Chirag Shetty won 21-6, 21-15 against Malaysian opposition to advance to the final and secured at least a silver medal in the CWG 2022.
The young Indian women’s doubles pair of Tressa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand were beaten in back-to-back matches in the semi-finals by 11th-ranked pair Koong Le Pearly Tan and Muralitharan Thinaah. The Indian duo had won convincingly in the previous two rounds at Birmingham 2022.
However, Jolly and Gopichand will have the opportunity to end their campaign in style by winning the bronze medal later tonight.
(With agency contributions)
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