Who is Srikanth Kidambi?

Srikanth Kidambi is an Indian badminton player, who currently attends the Gopichand Badminton Academy in Hyderabad. In 2021, Kidambi emerged as the first-ever Indian to win a silver medal and enter the World Championships final in the men's singles.

 

In April 2018, he was ranked as world number 1 at the BWF ranking. In the same year, Kidambi was conferred with the Arjuna award in 2015 and the Padma Shri award, India's fourth-highest civilian honour.

Early life

 

Srikanth Kidambi was born on February 7, 1993, in Andhra Pradesh in an agricultural Telgu family where his mother Radha is a housewife and