This year marked a golden period for Indian sports. To mark its brilliant closure, India’s ace shuttler and one of the biggest Indian sports stars Kidambi Srikanth bagged a hard-earned silver in the BWF World Championships. In the BWF World Championships held in Huelva, Spain, Kidambi fell short of Singaporean shuttler Loh Kean Yew. The Singaporeans managed to score a rather comfortable victory by finishing the game within 2 sets. However, it will be wrong to say that Srikanth didn’t put up a fight. The game ended in Loh’s favor with a score of 15-21, 20-22. While the second round was very close, the game ultimately ended in the Singaporean’s favor. Talking about the gold-medal winner, he defeated the Olympic champion Viktor Axelsen in the first round of the championship. In the semi-finals, he went toe-to-toe against Anders Antonsen. Just like the finals, he ousted his opponent within 2 sets with a score of 23-21 and 21-14.
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This performance in the BWF Championships has helped Loh Kean Yew the first Singaporean to win the gold. However, India doesn’t have one but two reasons to celebrate since Lakshya Sen bagged a bronze in the same championship event. This has increased India’s medal tally in BWF Championships to a whopping 12. This feat has made Srikanth the first male shuttler from India to bag a silver whole Sen became the 3rd male shuttler to win a bronze medal. Not only that, but this feat has also made the silver-medallist the first Indian male shuttler to advance to the championship finals. This incredible feat has closed a glorious year in India’s sports history.
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