Indian shuttler Kidambi Srikanth shed a hard-fought struggle in opposition to Lin Chun Yi of Chinese Taipei in the semi-ultimate of the Swiss Open Super 300 tournament on Saturday.
Srikanth misplaced 21-15, 9-21, 18-21 towards Lin in a 65 minute thriller.
Despite Srikanth successful the very first game, he failed to preserve his composure in the remaining match to eliminate the match.
Srikanth begun the match very well and inspite of some resistance from Lin Chun, he won the initially video game 21-15.
Lin arrived back again strongly in the second video game and won the activity 21-9 to pressure the decider.
The decider was a rollercoaster as both of those shuttlers tried out to trump each individual other with Lin having the direct previously prior to Srikanth arrived again to direct 16-14.
Having said that, Lin identified the extra gear in the last several minutes and received the semi-remaining.
With Srikanth’s reduction, the Indian obstacle ended at the Swiss Open up. He had a excellent run in the tournament with straight-sport wins in excess of Lee Zii Jia and Wang Tzu Wei.
Previously yesterday, Priyanshu Rajawat, Kiran George and Treesa Jolly/Gayatri Gopichand dropped their respective matches in the quarter even though Lakshya Sen and PV Sindhu ended up knocked out in the pre-quarterfinal.
Indian shutters will be in motion following week wherever they will participate in Madrid Spain Masters Super 300 event.