Indonesia Masters: Srikant Kidambi defeats HS Prannoy to reach semi-finals

Kidambi Srikanth reigned supreme in an all-Indian last-8 battle as he defeated HS Prannoy in straight sets to book a semi-final berth in the Indonesia Masters 2021 in Bali on Friday, November 19.

Playing on Court 2, former world number one Kidambi beat the 2014 Indonesia Masters champion Prannoy by 21-7, 21-18 in a 39-minute encounter. After being completely outplayed in the first set Prannoy tried to rally back in the second but Kidambi held his nerves better to deny any chance for his fellow countryman to take the match in the decider.

A good run of matches comes to an end for me today at Indonesia Masters after losing out to fellow Indian Srikanth!

Few days of rest and training before the next weeks Indonesia Super 1000

Let’s keep working!

Thanks for all the support this week pic.twitter.com/efiIM7dVVa

— PRANNOY HS (@PRANNOYHSPRI) November 19, 2021

Kidambi will now take on either Kunlavut Vitidsarn of Thailand or third-seed Anders Antonsen of Denmark in the semi-final.

Earlier in the day, the two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu stormed into the semi-finals after crushing Turkey's Neslihan Yigit 21-13, 21-10 in a 35-minute encounter. 

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