The Times of India Sports Awards (TOISA) 2021 awards ceremony will be held on October 14. Ahead of the ceremony the jury meet was held in the capital.
The evaluation period for TOISA 2021 was from January 1 to December 31, 2021. All achievements during this time period were considered by the jury.
Meet one of the big contenders for the TOISA 2021 Male Badminton Player of the Year award – Kidambi Srikanth, who recently won a bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.
Kidambi Srikanth<\/span>
Date of Birth:<\/span> February 7, 1993
Place of Birth:<\/span> Ravulapalem, Andhra Pradesh
Sport: <\/span>Badminton (Men’s Singles)
Current World Ranking: <\/span>12 (As on October 3, 2022)
Major Achievements in 2021:<\/span>
World Championships:<\/span> Silver – First Indian male to reach the final; Won silver
Indonesia Masters:<\/span> Made the semis
Hylo Open:<\/span> Made the semis
Swiss Open:<\/span> Made the semis
Former World No. 1 shuttler Kidambi Srikanth became the first Indian male ever to reach the final of the prestigious BWF World Championships in 2021. Though he had to settle for a silver medal after losing to Singapore’s Loh Kean Yew in the summit clash at Huelva, Spain, his achievement was a historic one. The medal in the World Championships made sure that Srikanth ended the year on a high after what was a disappointing season, in which he had failed to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics too.
But at the World Championships he made history and for his historic silver medal at the BWF Worlds, Srikanth has been nominated in The Times of India Sports Awards (TOISA 2021) ‘Badminton Male Player of the Year’ category. The category winners, male and female, in the last edition of TOISA were PV Sindhu and Sai Praneeth.
The World Championships was the only final Srikanth played in 2021, while losing in the semi-final stages at the Indonesia Masters, Hylo Open and Swiss Open. <\/div>\n