Srikanth Kidambi vs Shi Yuqi Live Score and Commentary Singapore Open Quarter-finals

Live coverage of the India Open quarter-finals featuring India's Srikanth Kidambi.

Updated: 14 April 2017 19:07 IST - Published: 14 April 2017 17:11 IST

That wraps up our live coverage of today's Singapore Open Superseries. Hope you enjoyed it. Do join us tomorrow for the live coverage of the semi-finals. Good bye.

This is Srikanth's first Superseries semi-final since the Australian Open in June last year.

Wow! That was some performance from Srikanth Kidambi!!!!

Srikanth WINS 21-14, 21-16

Sri has reached match points at 20-16

It is 18-16 now for the Indian.

Srikanth now makes his mark...17-15

The game continues to be a gritty, competitive affair...15-15

It is 14-14

But a determined Shi Yuqi takes a couple of quick points to snatch back the lead, 14-13

After the break, Sri still maintains the slim advantage and is now up at 13-12

Wow! The Indian thus won five straight points to get the lead.

At half-time, Sri takes a slender 11-10 lead.

And he has levelled it at 10-10

Three consecutive points for Srikanth now...9-10

Sri now trails 7-10

But the Chinese takes four points on the trot to lead 9-6

Srikanth once again trails by just a single point....5-6

Shi Yuqi now leads 6-3

The Indian now trails by just one point...3-4

Sri cuts down the lead to 2-4

The young Chinese is now up 4-1

SECOND GAME

Shi Yuqi opens up a 3-0 lead

Srikanth takes the first game 21-14

Srikanth has raced ahead to 20-14 now....six game points in hand

17-14 now for the Indian

The Chinese is staging a comeback here,...12-16

It is a SIX-POINT advantage now....Srikanth looks to be in complete control of this one....16-10

Sri has extended his lead to 13-9 now

At half-time, Srikanth has taken an 11-8 lead.

Srikanth breaks away from a 7-7 tie to lead 9-7

It continues to be even....6-6 now

Locked at 5-5 now

Sri levels it at 4-4

The Chinese fifth seed takes a 4-3 lead.

And we are under way!

The match will start in about 10-15 minutes.

Good evening and welcome to the Sportskeeda liveblog of Srikanth Kidambi's quarter-final. The former India No. 1 faces a tough opponent - the fifth seed Shi Yuqi, who reached the All England Championships final this year.

Srikanth is still making his way back to the top after losing a chunk of the season last year due to stress fracture in his right ankle. At the Singapore Open this week, he has shown flashes of his fighting spirit in the two wins that he amassed to reach the last-eight. Especially in the second round, he came back from three match points down to eke out the tough win in three games over Ihsan Maulana Mustofa.

Srikanth will definitely try his best to get a chance to join his compatriot B Sai Praneeth, who earlier upset the World No. 11 Tanongsak Saensomboonsuk to reach the semis.