Kidambi Srikanth

Kidambi Srikanth, written Srikanth Kidambi on some listings, is an Indian badminton player who plays men's singles, born on 7 February 1993. He represented India at the 2016 Rio Olympics, finishing fifth after a quarterfinal run. In April 2018 he became the first Indian man to reach world number 1 in the rankings since Prakash Padukone, and in 2021 he became the first Indian man to reach the final of the BWF World Championships in men's singles, winning silver. He captained the Thomas Cup winning Indian team of 2022, which won the tournament for the first time. The English Wikipedia lead gives only these career facts, so this entry records the nationality, birth date, discipline and the honours the lead names, and leaves the full tournament results, partners and club history to later sourced work rather than guessing at anything the lead does not state.