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Kidambi Srikanth beat the legendary Lin Dan for the second time in his career by establishing an all-India quarterfinal against Sameer Verma in Denmark Open here.
World number six, Srikanth, bounced back to beat world No. 14 China 18-21, 21-17, 21-16 in the return leg played Thursday night.
Dan, two-time Olympic gold medalist and five-time world champion, is no longer the player he was, but who to count with. It was a fifth meeting between Srikanth and Dan and the big Chinese, their last game in the quarter-finals of the Rio Olympics in 2016.
Srikanth had celebrated his first victory against Dan to win the 2014 China Open. After a tough game against the Chinese, Srikanth will face his compatriot Verma in the quarter-finals next Friday.
World No. 23 Verma had defeated 2018 Asian Games gold medalist, the Indonesian Jonathan Christie, in his second round match.
Saina Nehwal will also play her women's singles quarter-final against Nozomi Okuhara, the eighth seed, later on Friday, as well as the women's doubles duo by Ashwini Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy, who will take first place , the seeded Yuki Fukushima and Sayaka Hirota of Japan. ] First published: Oct. 19, 2018 11:11 IST
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