World Badminton Championships 2017: Srikanth Kidambi vs Lucas Corvee, Live Score and updates: Srikanth wins 21-9, 21-17

Srikanth wins 21-9, 21-17

Updated: 23 August 2017 19:18 IST - Published: 23 August 2017 14:27 IST

And with that, we wrap up our liveblog for today. Do join us tomorrow for the Round 3 matches.

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Goodbye!

Srikanth next faces the 14th seeded Anders Antonsen of Denmark for a place in the quarter-finals. That match will be on Thursday.

How efficiently Srikanth was able to turn his attack into defence in this match was what stood out. This definitely gave promising signs for the rest of his campaign.

FINAL SCORE: Srikanth wins 21-9, 21-17

The lift goes wide from the Frenchman and Srikanth WINS!!!!!

One error from Sri..20-17

MATCH POINTS FOR SRI AT 20-16

Sri drives the shuttle into the midcourt back at the Frenchman..it pays off....19-16

EXCELLENT PLAY BY SRIKANTH!!!!! Straight down-the-line winner by the Indian after scrambling back....18-15 now

Corvee undoes his great work by missing at the net...Sri goes up to 16-15

And it is 15-15 Wow!!

His persistence at the net is proving costly for Sri...Corvee has come back to 14-15

Egged on by his coaches, Corvee is showing some amazing attacking badminton....12-15

Sri fumbles at the net...15-10

15-9 currently

Sri targeted the line and just missed it...he is up 15-8

Very sloppy game from Corvee on resumption... he trails 7-13

It is 11-7 for the Indian at the interval

What a flick from the Indian..just effortlessly changed direction of the shuttle...10-7

But the unfazed Frenchman continues to try and is getting rewarded...his attack on the forecourt has taken him to 7-9

Srikanth's footwork and defence have been incredible...8-4

This is where Sri has started to assert himself...up now 7-3

4-3 lead for the Indian now...this looks pretty competitive as of now

But Corvee's good efforts are getting neutralized by his errors....2-2 it is

This time a big smash from the Indian..1-1

SECOND GAME

Long rally and Sri mistimes his smash...0-1

Corvee's coach is advising him to bring out his aggression and attack the forecourt...will that make any difference?

And Sri needed only one of them to wrap up the opening game 21-9

11 GAME POINTS FOR SRI

But the Frenchman seems to have run out of steam...in contrast, Sri is still jumping with energy..it is 19-9 for the Indian

Corvee is trying to disrupt Sri's rhythm with some great spinning net shots...he trails 9-16

It is 16-8 for the Indian as the Frenchman is trying his best to snatch a few points now

Post-break, Srikanth is unstoppable....takes 3 points on the trot to soar to 14-6

It is 11-6 for the Indian at the mid-game interval

And the Indian quickly builds on it to go up to 10-6....looks more comfortable now

Srikanth slams shut his chances and surges to 7-6

Corvee looks quite determined to make a match out of this...he leads 6-5

It is a tight affair now.....both are locked at 5-5

The Indian is up 3-2.

Sri takes two points on trot to lead 2-1

And we are under way!

First point to Corvee....1-0

Good evening and welcome to the Sportskeeda liveblog of Srikanth Kidambi's second round match. Sri had a thunderous start to his campaig on Monday and annihilated Sergey Sirant, 21-13, 21-12.

He should be looking to repeat that great performance today as well.

Title contender Srikanth Kidambi will look to enter the business end of the men's singles draw of the BWF World Championships 2017 and will have to get past the challenge from Lucas Corvee, who is ranked number 63 in the world. The two have met before at the Swiss Open two years ago, with the Indian coming up trumps 21-18 21-10. The match is the fourth in the order of play, with the first starting at the 3.30 PM IST.

Sai Praneeth, Ajay Jayaram and Sameer Verma will be in action as well throughout the day. In the women's singles draw, three shuttlers will be in action - Rituparna Das, Tanvi Lad and Saina Nehwal.

The pairing of Ashwini Ponnappa and Sikki Reddy will face Danish duo Kamilly Rytter Juhl and Christinna Pedersen, who are the second seeds and in another match, Sanjana Santosh and Arathi Sunil will be up against Bao Yixin and Yu Xiaohan of China.