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B .Sai Praneeth
Bhamidipati Sai Praneeth (born 10 August 1992) is an Indian badminton player. He became the first Indian male shuttler in 36 years to win a bronze medal in the BWF World Championships in 2019 after Prakash Padukone in 1983. Sai Praneeth was honoured with the Arjun Award in 2019. Career The right-handed Sai Praneeth stunned 2003 All England Champion Muhammad Hafiz Hashim of Malaysia at the 2013 Thailand Open Grand Prix Gold tournament in the first round. He is an Indian badminton player and currently trains at the Gopichand Badminton Academy in Hyderabad. 2013 has been a memorable year so far for Sai Praneeth. He stunned the world by sending back Taufik Hidayat unexpectedly early at his home ground in front of a home crowd, thus ruining his farewell from an illustrious career as a professional badminton player. He defeated Taufik Hidayat in the first round match of Djarum Indonesia Open 2013 by 2-1 games with the final score being 15-21, 21-12, 21-17. Barely a few days later on 19 June 2013, he again upstaged a much higher ranked player. This time world number four Hu Yun of Hong Kong in the Singapore Super Series. At the 2016 All England Super Series Premier, Sai Praneeth stunned the 2nd seed Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia in the 1st Round 24-22, 22-20 in straight sets. On July 2016, he won the 2016 Canada Open Grand Prix in the men's singles category. In the final match played at Calgary, Sai Praneeth defeated Lee Hyun-il of South Korea by 21-12, 21-10 score. It is his maiden Grand Prix trophy. In 2017, he won the Singapore Open Super Series after beating his compatriot Srikanth Kidambi in rubber games, hence becoming the fourth Indian to win a superseries title after Saina Nehwal, Srikanth Kidambi, and P.V.Sindhu. In 2019, Praneeth won a bronze medal at the BWF World Championships in Basel, Switzerland after losing the semifinals to Kento Momota. In his route to semifinal Sai beat Anthony Sinisuka Ginting of Indonesia in third round and reigning Asian Game's Gold medallist Jonatan Christie of Indonesia in quarterfinals.