Malaysia Open 2018, Men's singles, Quarterfinal: Kidambi Srikanth vs Brice Leverdez, Live Match Updates

Srikanth will now head to the semi finals!

Final Score: 18-21, 14-21

And Srikanth has his way and prevails over the Frenchman!!

Leverdez scampers behind Srikanth at 14-20!

SRIKANTH IS A POINT AWAY!

The Indian stays comfortable with a 12-19 lead!!

Srikanth is getting difficult to stop as he is just a few points away from taking the match!

Srikanth keeps a safe distance from Leverdez as he races to a 17-11 lead!

Brice collects 3 successive points but lags behind Srikanth at 14-9!

Srikanth eludes Brice as he skirts off to a 14-6 lead!

Srikanth races off to an 11-5 lead over Brice!

Srikanth maintains a comfortable 9-5 lead!

After an incredible rally, Srikanth edges past and leads 7-5!

Srikanth smashes to equalize with Leverdez at 5 all!

They stay abreast of each other and it's 4 all!

Into the 2nd game, it's 1 ALL for the Indo-French duo!

We are headed to the 2nd game now!

And Srikanth has it easy! He scoots off to a 21-18 first game!

Leverdez is right on his heels at 19-18!

Can he close in on this first game easily?

Srikanth races off to a 19-17 lead!

Leverdez wins back service but Srikanth stays ahead at 17-16!

Srikanth edges past the Frenchman and goes up to a 16-13!

The Indo-French duo stay abreast of each other. It's 13 ALL!

Leverdez dissolves the point differences quickly and equalizes at 12 all!

Srikanth surpasses Leverdez expertly and races to a 11-9 lead!

Srikanth finally manages to equalize at 8 ALL!

Leverdez holds on to his serve and advances ahead of Srikanth at 8-7!

The Frenchman stays 2 points ahead of Srikanth who lags behind at 7-5

Leverdez has the serve and leads the way at 5-3!

Both Srikanth and Leverdez are tied at 2 all!

The first game has just begun!

Good afternoon! We are headed to an exciting quarter final between Srikanth and Leverdez!

Hello and welcome to Sportskeeda's LIVE coverage of the Malaysia Open 2018 match between Kidambi Srikanth and Brice Leverdez!

In men's singles, World No. 7 Kidambi Srikanth has been handed a relatively easy draw with the likes of Viktor Axelson, Lee Chong Wei, Lin Dan and Shi Yuqi all on the other half. He is going up against Frenchman Brice Leverdez in this match!

Kidambi Srikanth advanced to the quarterfinals after pulling off a win against Taipei’s Wang Tzu Wei in the 2nd round of the USD 700,000 Malaysia Open World Tour super 750 tournament in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday. En route to the quarters, World No 7 Srikanth, who claimed four titles last season, dumped former World No 2 Jan Jorgensen in the first round followed by an easy 22-20, 21-12 win over Wang Tzu Wei who had ousted Sai Praneeth.

The 4th seeded Srikanth is the obvious favourite for this match. The battle between the two should be sight to watch and it is really difficult to predict in whose favour the shuttle cocks would swing before it begins.