Indian shuttler Kidambi Srikanth stayed committed in his dominating run to clinch the Australia Superseries men’s singles final on Sunday. The World No 11 took 46 minutes to outclass Chen Long 22-20, 21-16 in straight games. This was the fourth Superseries title for Srikanth. Srikanth had won the Indonesia Open title last Sunday to jump 11 places in the Badminton World Federation (BWF) ranking. He recorded his first win over the sixth-ranked Chen, having lost to the Chinese in all their five meetings before. The 24-year-old earlier knocked out World No 1 Son Wan Ho in the second round to advance to quarter-finals of the tournament in Sydney. That was his second victory over the South Korean in two weeks. He had earlier stunned Son 21-15, 14-21, 24-22 last week in the semi-finals of the Indonesia Open. Twitter wasted no time to celebrate the man of the moment, Srikanth for his achievement. Wishes poured in from former cricketer Virender Sehwag, who congratulated the youngster, while HS Prannoy tweeted, “Looks like it’s getting tough for everyone to clinch titles when Indian boys are in form!! Congrats.” Even the Indian women’s cricket team captain Mithali Raj lauded Srikanth’s efforts while Union sports minister Vijay Goel said that he was proud of the shuttler.
Take a bow #KidambiSrikanth clinching #AustralianOpen #SuperSeries title. 2nd Super Series title after the Indonesia Open. An 🇮🇳⭐️ is born! pic.twitter.com/v3FozwEE1y
— Lalit Kumar Modi (@LalitKModi) June 25, 2017
Congratulations #KidambiSrikanth on winning the #AustralianSS . On a roll @srikidambi !
— Mohammad Kaif (@MohammadKaif) June 25, 2017
And @srikidambi wins the #AustralianSS! What a proud moment! Way to go!
— Harbhajan Turbanator (@harbhajan_singh) June 25, 2017
Congratulations @srikidambi on beating reigning Olympic & World Champion Chen Long & winning a 4th Superseries title. Take a bow, Srikanth ! pic.twitter.com/qNP2e9PXIv
— Virrender Sehwag (@virendersehwag) June 25, 2017
Impact Shorts
More ShortsOlympic champ ChenLong loses to 2 Indian shuttlers twice in 2 weeks. To @PRANNOYHSPRI in Jakarta & to @srikidambi in Sydney. That says a lot
— Sudhir (@Iamtssudhir) June 25, 2017
Massive congrats @srikidambi back to back titles, not many players have done that 👍🏼😃🏆🇮🇳💪🏸. Jai hind
— Mathias Boe (@mathiasboe) June 25, 2017
2nd successive Superseries title for @srikidambi. Defeats Olympic champ Chen Long 22-20, 21-16 to become #AustraliaSS winner! Proud of you! pic.twitter.com/TdXygrTqEZ
— Vijay Goel (@VijayGoelBJP) June 25, 2017
@srikidambi awesomeness Srikanth...unstoppable performance...great stuff!!👊🏼 #champion #AustraliaSS
— Gutta Jwala 💙 (@Guttajwala) June 25, 2017
This is a classic win @srikidambi at #AustraliaSS. CONGRATULATIONS. We are so proud of you. I proudly announce reward of Re 5lakh @BAI_Media pic.twitter.com/W7asJTSMhT
— Himanta Biswa Sarma (@himantabiswa) June 25, 2017
What a great 2 weeks for @srikidambi!! Indonesian SS champion and now #AustraliaSS champion. Keep it up champ!! 👌👍🙌
— Mithali Raj (@M_Raj03) June 25, 2017


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