Srikanth Kidambi Malaysia Masters 2025 final live score Sr

Kidambi Srikanth went down 21-11, 21-9 against second seeded Chinese Li Shifeng in the summit clash on Sunday in Kuala Lumpur at the Malaysia Masters. Srikanth who became the first Indian to win four BWF titles in a season back 2017 and then led the country to its first-ever Commonwealth Games gold in the team event, couldn t get any rhythm going against Li Shifeng who held the edge when it comes to head to head clashes with 3 wins out of 4 times they met previosuly.

This was Srikanth s first final in an individual event since December 2021 and a first BWF World Tour final since March 2019 at the India Open. The wait for a first World Tour title continues but all said, it was a good week for Srikanth who showed glimpses of his best badminton.

The Indian shuttler had defeated Japan s Yushi Tanaka 21-18 24-22 in the semifinal on Saturday, continuing his fine run that started in the qualification rounds on Tuesday at the Axiata Arena. World No 65 Srikanth, who is set to reenter the top 50, beat world No 13 Lu Guang Zu in the first-round of main draw, before overcoming Nhat Nguyen and Toma Junior Popov, before his Saturday win against Tanaka. Read more about his run so far here.

I m pretty happy. It s been a while. Physically I ve been feeling well, but also the fact that I haven t played too many matches last year, playing qualifying, so may be kind of lost that touch of playing matches. And yeah, somehow everything worked out this time. I ve been working hard last month. It s just these wins, after a very long time, that is what has been my emotions, Srikanth had told BWF after the match on Saturday.50\