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Kidambi Srikanth advances to finals of Malaysia Masters 2025
The Statesman Kolkata
|May 25, 2025
Former world No. 1 Kidambi Srikanth reached his first World Tour Final of the Malaysia Masters 2025 badminton tournament in Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur, since 2019, after defeating Japan's Yushi Tanaka in the semi-final on Saturday.
Currently ranked 65th in the badminton rankings, Srikanth defeated world No. 23 Yushi Tanaka 21-18, 24-22 in a hard-fought semi-final contest which lasted 49 minutes.
This was Srikanth's first semi-final appearance of the year. His last top-four finish on the BWF World Tour was at the Swiss Open Super 300 in March 2024.
In the final, the Indian badminton star will face the winner of the other semi-final clash between Japan's world No. 8 Kodai Naraoka and Li Shifeng of the People's Republic of China, who is currently ranked fourth, according to Olympics.com.
Earlier in the quarterfinals, Srikanth won over France's Toma Junior Popov and advanced to the semi-finals.
Srikanth came from behind in the decider to register a gritty 24-22, 17-21, 22-20 win over world No. 18 Popov in a match that lasted one hour and 14 minutes on Friday.
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