Promising Start for Sirant’s Top-Tier Quest
Sergey Sirant still remembers what drew him to badminton as a child.
· DEV SUKUMAR
He’d accompanied his parents to a badminton hall, and what struck him was the sound of the shuttle hitting the racket.
“My parents played badminton once a week when I was young. They took me to the court and I looked at some older players play and I loved it, especially the sound of the shuttle being hit. I remember I liked this sound. And my sister also started playing,” recalls Sirant.
The left-hander has come a long way since then. The highest ranked Russian in men’s singles at No.67, Sirant has been plugging away in the lower tiers of the circuit. Finally, at the YONEX-SUNRISE India Open 2022, he went the furthest he has at an HSBC BWF World Tour Super 500 event, making the quarterfinals. He followed that up with a quarterfinal the next week, at the Syed Modi India International 2022, a Super 300 event.