in 2017 srikanth kidambi became the first indian and just the fourth male badminton player to win as many as four super series titles in one year in april next year he was ranked world number one and the same year he was given the fourth highest civilian honour the prestigious padma shrisrikanth was recently a guest on times of indias sports podcast sportscast and talked about his badminton journey so far family support the roller coaster ride he has had since 2018 the upcoming commonwealth games and much more0353srikanth kidambi the man behind the championsince 2018 there have been a lot of ups and downs there were a lot of highs and there were a lot of lows 2018 after a very good 2017 we won the gold at the cwg where i also won the silver singles and became world number one then asian games i got injured after that 2019 the qualification period started by the end of 2019 i really started playing well again i played the semifinal of a super series and then in 2020 i played a semifinal and there were decent performances but then covid19 happened and the olympics got pushed to 2021 again in 2021 i started off really well but then the tournaments got cancelled and i couldnt qualify for the olympics these were all the lows that i went through but since september 2021 since the tournaments resumed and since the time i started playing tournaments again i slowly started to do well i start off with a couple of quarter finals and semifinals and then the world championship finals won silver and then the thomas cup win its a steady graph i feel and that is always good i think because it shows that you are improving every day srikanth kidambi said on toi sportscasttoi photothough his world ranking currently reads 11 srikanth is considered to be a player who on his day is capable of beating any player in the world regardless of ranking etc srikanth touched a new high in his career last year when he became the first indian male shuttler to enter the final of the world championships he went on to win the silverand then his win vs higher ranked jonatan christie in the final of the thomas cup gave india their first title triumph in the prestigious team tournament beating 14 time champions indonesia 30 in the final srikanth was the india team captain and was unbeaten in the tournamentso where does he feel his game stands currently does he feel like he is being able to push newer boundariesi feel that i am getting better i feel that i am being able to play the way i want to and i still believe that i can become better from here i have the 2024 olympics on my mind so from here i feel that i still have a very long way to go i feel that