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French Open badminton: Kidambi Srikanth turns around familiar script to notch impressive win after squandering match point

Kidambi Srikanth logged in his usual nightmare shift. But it’s how he woke up from the bad dream — at the 19-point mark when he invariably implodes despite leading — that proved to be a glitch in the doom-script predicted for him.The banshees were screaming that another ‘loss’ was loading when he frittered away a match point in Game 2. But Srikanth woke up from that routine stutter at the 19-point mark, as if all he had to do was brush his teeth, grin at the mirror, and tuck into the gritty Chou Tien Chen’s high-fibre game. His court-side folk will insist – “It’s only the first round, it’s nothing. He needs to play at a good level tomorrow.” But Srikanth’s 21-15, 20-22, 21-8 win over Chou Tien Chen at the French Open will remain a happy story until the next time he grabs a loss from the...
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How an elementary lesson helped old-master Kidambi Srikanth wriggle out of tight corner

Lost in the dazzling whirl of his breathtaking stroke-play was a ‘basic of the game’ that Kidambi Srikanth seems to have revisited of late. Catching the shuttle higher at the net, is what coaches drill into 13-year-olds. Srikanth, soon-to-turn 31, revised that elementary lesson on court to record a 12-21, 21-18, 21-16 victory over sixth seed Jonatan Christie at Kuala Lumpur.Dubbed a washed-up talent, with 10 blink-and-miss first round exits to match the whole of last year, Srikanth lined up against Indonesian World No 5 Christie on Tuesday at the Super 1000 Malaysia Open. He lost the opener 12-21, playing from the less-preferred side, and was 7-11 and 15-17 down in the second, with another loss loading. All this time, he had been attempting – in Srikanthesque fashion – the most complica...
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Kidambi Srikanth seeks foreign badminton coach for Paris Olympics qualification cycle

Kidambi Srikanth is on the hunt for a personal travelling coach – either an Indonesian or a Malaysian, he said on the sidelines of the Pune senior Nationals. The recent two-week stint in Indonesia further strengthened his belief that he needs something different at this stage of his career, as he enters the qualification phase for the Paris Olympics. “I’m still discussing with Gopi sir and others, but we have a few names,” he said. Zeroing in on a coach has been tough due to the odd timing. “Most coaches have contracts till the Olympics or Asian Games. But with everything postponed, it has become tough to identify someone,” he explained. On his Indonesian stint, Srikanth said: “I wanted to try something different and not leave out anything I could have tried before the Olympics. The Ind...