{"id":3194,"date":"2017-11-02T22:54:18","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T17:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.smartworld.asia\/?p=3194"},"modified":"2017-11-02T22:54:43","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T17:24:43","slug":"kidambi-srikanth-rises-career-best-2nd-rank-post-stellar-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/kidambi-srikanth-rises-career-best-2nd-rank-post-stellar-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Kidambi Srikanth rises to career-best 2nd rank post stellar season"},"content":{"rendered":"

Srikanth Kidambi has now a series of firsts to his name after a superlative show in the European swing.<\/h2>\n

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Indian ace shuttler Srikanth Kidmabi has risen to the zenith of his career. He established himself as world number 2 in the latest BWF men’s singles ratings.<\/p>\n

After his grand French Open win, the 24-year-old became the first Indian. He is only the fourth male shuttler in the history to lift four Super Series titles in a calendar year.<\/p>\n

The Pullela Gopichand protege achieved the ranking after lifting the French Open trophy last week defeating his Japanese opponent 21-14, 21-13 in a one-sided summit showdown and clinching the Denmark Open Super Series Premier, the Indonesia Open Super Series Premier and Australian Open Super Series earlier in the year.<\/p>\n

With this string of successes, Srikanth has grabbed top spot in the Destination Dubai Rankings. A yearly ranking system which factors in performances across the 12 annual Super Series. It determines the top eight and looks a prime contender for the Super Series Final title in December.<\/p>\n

Needless to say, if he continues his exemplar play for the remainder of the season, we could have the first Indian World No 1 in men\u2019s badminton since Padukone in 1980, and the first in the computerized ranking era, established in 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Srikanth Kidambi has now a series of firsts to his name after a superlative show in the European swing. Indian ace shuttler Srikanth Kidmabi has risen to the zenith of his career. He established himself as world number 2 in the latest BWF men’s singles ratings. After his grand French Open win, the 24-year-old became …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1360],"tags":[3710,4120,4119],"class_list":["post-3194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-badminton-news","tag-kidambi-srikanth","tag-kidambi-super-series","tag-super-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}