Srikanth kidambi

1. ROLE MODEL: SRIKANTH
KIDAMBI
Indian Badminton Player
From
1) Sushanth(BU22CSEN0101911)
2) Sujan(BU22CSEN0101959)

2. • Srikanth Kidambi is our role model because we were
inspired by his game play. Srikanth is an Indian
badminton player.
• He was born on 7th February in 1993. A former world
No.1, Srikanth was awarded the Padma shri, India’s
fourth highest civilian award in 2018, and he was also
awarded Arjuna award in 2015.
• His father's name is KVS Krishna, and his mother's name
is Radha.
• In 2021, he became the first Indian to reach the World
Championship final in the men’s singles.

3. • In 2012, Srikanth overcame and then he became
junior World Champion of Malaysia in Maldives
international Challenge to claim the men’s
singles title.
• In 2013 at the Thailand Open Grand Prix Gold
event, Kidambi won the men's singles title,
beating then world number eight and local
favorite Boonsak Ponsana in straight games.
• In the same year, Kidambi beat reigning champion
and Olympian Parupalli Kashyap in the All India
Senior National Championships in Delhi to claim
his first senior national title.He was also part
of the Awadhe Warriors team that finished second
in the Indian Badminton League.

4. • Kidambi became the first
Indian man to win gold at
the 2015 in Swiss Open
Grand Prix Gold by
defeating Viktor . During
the same year, he also won
the India Open Super Series
title by defeating Viktor
in the final.

5. • When he was 29-years old
he finished the 2021
season with a historic
silver medal at the
World Championships, the
first Indian man to
reach the final.

6. • In 2022, he won all six of his
matches at the THOMAS CUP as
India became team world
champions. He then won silver in
the team event and bronze in the
individual event at CWG 2022.
And even through he couldn’t go
beyond the round
• Of 32 at the BWF World
Championships in 2022, he
remains the second-highest
ranked men’s singles player from
India, behind Lakshya Sen, a at
No 12.

7. • ₹500,000 award announced for Kidambi from BAI for 2015 Swiss Open
Grand Prix Gold victory
• ₹500,000 award announced for Kidambi from BAI for 2015 India Super
Series victory
• ₹500,000 award announced for Kidambi from BAI for 2017 Indonesia
Super Series Premier victory
• ₹500,000 award announced for Kidambi from BAI for 2017 Australian
Super Series victory.
• On 21 March 2018, Kidambi received Padma Shri, India's fourth-
highest civilian award from Ram Nath Kovind, the former President
of India.
AWARDS

8. HELPING NATURE
• In 2019, he established the Srikanth Badminton Foundation, a nonprofit and not even know
to anyone that started with the purpose of improving the sports in rural India. It works with
over 3.5 lakh schools and colleges.
• In the same year Srikanth organ donation was set up to address challenges the foundation
faced.
• In 2020, Srikanth encourages wealthy individuals to pledge half their life with sports. With a
donation of Rs 30 crore, Srikanth topped the Indian Badminton Singles for the umpteenth
Singles for the umpteenth time in 2021.

9. • Srikanth Kidambi, who is from Hyderabad donated Rs 50 lakh to the
CM Relief Fund to help the India in the covid-19.
• The year before, he donated Rs 5 lakh to the Chief Minister's
Natural Calamity Relief Fund to aid flood victims suffering in the
unprecedented floods.
• In 2020, he also donated Rs 15 crore to charitable causes.

10. There are no secrets to success. It is the
result of preparation, hard work and learning
from failure.
Self-belief and hard work will always earn you
success. Dream big, stay positive, work hard, and
enjoy the journey.
Proverb/Conclusion

11. THANK YOU