PV Sindhu and Kidambi Srikanth will play the second round at Badminton World Championship.
BWF World Championships Live Score, Streaming: Olympic silver medallist PV Sindhu and Kidambi Srikanth, who clinched four titles last season, will be in action on Wednesday at the BWF World Championships as they take on Fitriani and Pablo Abian in the second round respectively. Fifth seed Srikanth joined compatriots HS Prannoy, Sameer Verma and B Sai Praneeth, who received a walkover in the second round. While Praneeth will meet another spaniard, Luís Enrique Penalver, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Ashwini Ponnappa will face seventh seeded Malaysian pair of Goh Soon Huat and Shevon Jemie Lai.
Badminton World Championships: Kidambi Srikanth vs Pablo Abian. (Source: Instagram)
An exciting anti-climatic finish as India's Kidambi Srikanth bounces back effectively to win the match 15-21, 21-12. 14-21 to progress to the next round. Exciting badminton between the two which progressed to three games.
Pablo Abian hits it wide and now Srikanth has a match point. He leads 20-14.
A number of unforced errors from Pablo Abian, who looks frustrated, and is now trailing by 5 points. Srikanth has a massive advantage now as he looks to progress to the next round. Srikanth leads 13-18.
Srikanth gets a new lease on life with Pablo Adian committing three unforced errors on the trot. He is now trailing as Srikanth picks up two points lead in the match. He leads 15-13.
Srikanth wins two points in a row. An excellent drop shot followed by a smash to close down the room for Adian. HE has now bright the final game to a level footing. The score is level at 11-11.
Kidambi Srikanth trails by 11-9 at the break in the final game. Can he bounce back to win the match? This has been a fierce competition between the two shuttlers and no one is willing to give anything. Much to do for Srikanth to get back.
What a rally between Pablo Abian and Kidambi Srikanth! Srikanth was forced to dive on his right, and then to his left, but eventually, his resistance ended with another smash by Abian. What a beautiful game. Abian leads 10-7.
Spain's Pablo Abian roars in delight as he earned a crucial point to take the lead in the final game. He flicks the shuttle towards Srikanth's left, forcing him to draw wide, and then dropped it towards the right side. No chance for him to get back to the low shot. Abian leads 7-6
Kidambi Srikanth has taken a lead of 6-5 in the final game. But the lead is not too much at themoemnt, and he needs to figure out a way to extend it to win against a fiery Spain opponent.
Kidambi Srikanth has lost the second game 12-21 to Pablo Abian. Can he bounce back in the final game?
Kidambi Srikanth has taken a one-game lead with a score of 21-15 in the first game against Pablo Abian.
Hello and welcome to our Live Blog on Badminton Championship Live. First up it will be Kidambi Srikanth taking on Spain's Pablo Abian. Can Srikanth proceed?