The Indian shuttler Kidambi Srikanth defeated World No. 3 Denmark's Anders Antonsen and booked his ticket to the semi-final of the Swiss Open 2022. He registered a 21-19, 19-21, 22-20 victory in a nail-biting quarter-final match.
Srikanth started the opening game well and was leading 9-1 until Antonsen bounced back hard. The World No. 3 fought hard and led 11-9 at a point of the match before the break. The world championship silver medallist Srikanth changed the match to his name post-break and won it 21-19.
Srikanth started the second game with an early lead of 9-6. The duo went to the break with Srikanth's 11-9 lead. Interestingly, both Srikanth and Anderson were tied 19-19 at one point. This was the moment from where Anderson turned the match to his name. He won consecutive two points and ended the match 21-19, both with one win.
The last and the decider match took turns at every point. The second seed Antonsen took an early lead with 4-1 but soon after Srikanth leveled it with 3 consecutive points. Antonsen won 6 consecutive points while being at 7-7 and made a huge leap of 13-7 but Srikanth did not give up for a bit. He fought harder and won another 6 points to tie at 13-13. With one leading another in various instances, Srikanth finally emerged victorious with 22-20.
After a long quarter-final of 1 hour and 19 minutes, the India shuttler made his way to the semi-finals where he will face off World No.8, Indonesia's Jonatan Christie.
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