Indian skilled shuttler Kidambi Srikanth‘s journey within the Swiss Open has ended as he confronted an in depth defeat within the males’s singles semi-finals on Saturday. In a match that lasted one hour and 5 minutes, Indian badminton participant Srikanth misplaced to Taiwan’s Lin Chun-Yi 21-15, 9-21, 18-21. 

Because the 2022 Hilo Open Tremendous 300 held in Germany, this was the primary time Srikanth reached the semi-finals of a BWF Tour occasion.

First recreation

Srikanth made an excellent begin within the Swiss Open semifinal match towards Lin and took an early lead. After this, Srikanth took it brilliantly to 11-5 and received the primary recreation by 21-15.

Second recreation

Within the second match, Srikanth continued his domination and took an early lead of 4-1. However, Lin made a fast comeback within the recreation scoring eight factors and taking a lead of 9-5. Lin then received seven successive factors to throw the previous No.1 Indian badminton participant out of the race within the second recreation. Lin levelled the match profitable the second recreation by 9-21.

Remaining recreation

Within the remaining recreation, Lin made an excellent begin and went forward of Srikanth by 6-2. Srikanth tried his greatest to make a comeback by levelling the rating at 6-6. At 6-6, each the gamers each gamers battled onerous to get nearer to the ultimate. 

Each Lin and Srikant went shoulder to shoulder until the factors reached 16-16. Nonetheless, a number of consecutive unforced errors from Srikanth meant Lin would win the decider by 18-21. Lin Chun Yi will subsequent face Chou Tien-chen within the remaining. 

Srikanth was the final Indian participant to proceed his marketing campaign within the Swiss Open. Priyanshu Rajawat and Kiran George had been already out of the quarterfinals. Earlier than that, the ladies’s doubles pair of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand additionally needed to face defeat within the quarterfinals. PV Sindhu’s marketing campaign additionally ended within the second spherical. With Kidambi Srikanth’s exit, India’s problem on the USD 210,000 event has ended.