{"id":24779,"date":"2015-12-21T08:51:48","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T08:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=24779"},"modified":"2015-12-21T08:51:48","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T08:51:48","slug":"premier-badminton-league-srikanth-kidambi-confident-of-a-winning-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=24779","title":{"rendered":"Premier Badminton League: Srikanth Kidambi confident of a winning start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-24778\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Srikanth-Kidambi-Bengaluru-top-guns.jpg\" alt=\"Srikanth Kidambi confident of handling Men's singles in Premier Badminton League\" width=\"260\" height=\"160\" style=\"margin: 2px 4px 4px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Srikanth-Kidambi-Bengaluru-top-guns.jpg 260w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Srikanth-Kidambi-Bengaluru-top-guns-150x92.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/>New Delhi: With the Premier Badminton League all set to kick-start on 2nd January 2016, Srikanth Kidambi is looking forward to play for Bengaluru Top Guns and is confident of a winning start to the League. With a good mix of players in each category, Srikanth will have Anand Pawar and Sameer Verma alongside him to play the crucial Men&rsquo;s Singles.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the Men&rsquo;s Singles matches, Srikanth said, &ldquo;I think the Men&#8217;s Singles matches will be an interesting contest as with two matches, the teams will want to win both as then that will help get the edge in the Tie. With Sameer and Anand in our team&rsquo;s category, I think we have a healthy mix and between us we will be able to give a tough time to the opponents. Premier Badminton League will be a great exposure for the players and will help benefit us by making us play high intensity matches.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Premier Badminton League will start from 2nd January 2016 where six franchisees &#8211; Delhi Acers, Hyderabad Hunters, Awadhe Warriors, Mumbai Rockets, Bengaluru Top Guns and Chennai Smashers &#8211; will compete for the top honour. The opening day of the League will witness Awadhe Warriors taking on Mumbai Rockets in Mumbai.<\/p>\n<p>The Premier Badminton League will be telecasted LIVE on Star Sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-24778\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Srikanth-Kidambi-Bengaluru-top-guns.jpg\" alt=\"Srikanth Kidambi confident of handling Men's singles in Premier Badminton League\" width=\"260\" height=\"160\" style=\"margin: 2px 4px 4px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Srikanth-Kidambi-Bengaluru-top-guns.jpg 260w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Srikanth-Kidambi-Bengaluru-top-guns-150x92.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/>New Delhi: With the Premier Badminton League all set to kick-start on 2nd January 2016, Srikanth Kidambi is looking forward to play for Bengaluru Top Guns and is confident of a winning start to the League. With a good mix of players in each category, Srikanth will have Anand Pawar and Sameer Verma alongside him to play the crucial Men&rsquo;s Singles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[4952,11264,12889,466,2548,13186,12816,4950,13185],"class_list":["post-24779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-badminton-badminton","tag-anand-pawar","tag-badminton-news","tag-bengaluru-top-guns","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-isn","tag-pbl-news","tag-premier-badminton-league-2016","tag-sameer-verma","tag-srikanth-kidambi"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Premier Badminton League: Srikanth Kidambi confident of a winning start - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=24779\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Premier Badminton League: Srikanth Kidambi confident of a winning start - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"New Delhi: With the Premier Badminton League all set to kick-start on 2nd January 2016, Srikanth Kidambi is looking forward to play for Bengaluru Top Guns and is confident of a winning start to the League. 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