Kidambi Srikanth bows out in semis final

 

Singapore: Rising Indian shuttler Kidambi Srikanth’s impressive campaign at the Singapore Open Superseries finally came to an end as he went down fighting against top seed Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia in the men’s singles semifinals here on Saturday.

 

Srikanth fought valiantly against World No.1 Lee before running out of steam to lose the contest 19-21, 18-21 in 42 minutes at the Singapore Indoor Stadium. 

Lee will play qualifier Simon Santoso of Indonesia in the summit clash on Sunday. Santoso stunned fifth seed Pengyu Du of China 16-21, 21-17, 21-17 in the other semifinal.

 

Against Lee, Srikanth made a bright start before faltering in the later stages to surrender the match. With Srikanth’s loss, India’s challenge came to an end in the $3,000,000 tournament