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Sydney: Kidambi Srikanth became only the fifth player in the world to contest three successive Super Series finals as he beat China’s Shi Yuqi 21-10, 21-14 to book a final spot at the Australian Open, here on Saturday. Srikanth had earlier reached the finals in Singapore and Indonesia.<\/p>\n
Srikanth continued with his winning spree as he outclassed All England finalist Shi in a 37-minute match. Srikanth had earlier beaten the Chinese at the quarters of the Singapore Open in April.<\/p>\n
Srikanth will now either play reigning Olympic champion or two-time World champion and All England champion Chen Long or Korea’s Lee Hyun II in the finals.<\/p>\n
In the first game, Shi Yuqi was neck-to-neck with Srikanth at 4-4 but thereafter, the Indian shuttler upped his ante and opened a 16-10 lead, wrapping up the game with taking five consecutive points.<\/p>\n
In the second game too the Chinese shuttler held Srikanth at 7-7, but thereafter Srikanth streaked to 15-8 lead. Though Shi Yuqi tried to close the gap, Srikanth closed out the game and the match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sydney: Kidambi Srikanth became only the fifth player in the world to contest three successive Super Series finals as he beat China’s Shi Yuqi 21-10, 21-14 to book a final spot at the Australian Open, here on Saturday. Srikanth had earlier reached the finals in Singapore and Indonesia.<\/p>\n
Srikanth continued with his winning spree as he outclassed All England finalist Shi in a 37-minute match. Srikanth had earlier beaten the Chinese at the quarters of the Singapore Open in April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[268,11264,466,11404,22357],"class_list":["post-35036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-badminton-badminton","tag-australian-open","tag-badminton-news","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-kidambi-srikanth","tag-shi-yuqi"],"yoast_head":"\n