s–turned–lensman, when lighting wasn’t the best and developing film was an almighty task. Why the Malaysians love Kidambi Srikanth, and other sights and sounds from World Badminton Championships. returning to the international circuit later this year, after the Japanese enforced a strict ban on him when he was found gambling in a casino. He will face top seeded Thai Kunlavut Vitidsarn in the summit clash on Sunday. Retirement talk follows Dan and Lee Chong Wei routinely and it even struck Lilyana Natsir — the Indonesian doubles great. While Srikanth’s tying-in-knots strokes have earned him fans from distant Asian corners, it’s his fo. I’m under no pressure to win because there’s many more chances,” Nehwal herself said, as her relaxed mindset fetched her successive Worlds podium finishes. India’s BMKJ brigade just don’t strike the right chord in Sindhu’s final, and are not particularly creative with a short-running “Blah blah blah blah, Sindhu is a Superstar”. The strategy paid off as she broke Pliskova in her first two service games to take a 3-1 lead and captured the first set with an emphatic overhead smash. But they started out with rolling out massive posters of the established faces from many years.