India’s Srikanth Kidambi who is currently ranked 11 in BWF Ranking beaten World No 5 Jan O Jorgensen in straight games. He beat the Dane 21-19, 21-19 in the round of 16.
He will meet World No 2 Lin Dan in Quarterfinals of the Rio Olympics. This may be difficult match for Srikanth. Srikanth meet Lin Dan 3 time out of that Srikanth won 1 match.
He won 2014 China Open Super Series Premier after beating Lin Dan by 21–19 21–17 in the final round.
If Srikanth Win this match then maybe he will face world no 1 LEE Chong Wei in Semi finals. Srikanth never won match against LEE Chong Wei in last 4 attempts.
India’ P. V. Sindhu who currently ranked No 10 BWF ranking enters the quarters of women’s singles badminton beating world No 8 Chinese Taipei’s Tai Tzu Ying 21-13, 2-15
Now Sindhu will meet World No.2 Wang Yihan in Quarters finals. If Sindhu win this match then sindhu will meet winner of Akane Yamaguchi (world rank 12) vs Nozomi Okuhara( world rank 6).