Kidambi Srikanth's excellent form can be considered a huge gain for India from the initial skirmishes in the Premier Badminton League (PBL), when viewed in the wider perspective of qualification for the 2016 Olympic Games.


Kidambi Srikanth

Although the results achieved during the fortnight of the PBL will not be counted in the race to make the cut for the Rio Olympics, one cannot discount the psychological boost that Srikanth would have gained with fabulous victory over the former world no.1, Lee Chong Wei, during the keenly contested Hyderabad-Bengaluru encounter on Sunday.