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Tanongsak Saensomboonsuk of Thailand and Hyderabad Hotshots. (Getty Images)
Tanongsak Saensomboonsuk
Tanongsak has been around for a while, but he has always been in the shadow of his more accomplished men’s singles compatriot Boonsak Ponsana. Tanongsak has displayed indifferent form over the last few years, but things turned around suddenly from late last year.
The left-handed Thai was the runner-up at the Korea Open GP Gold in December 2012, following that up with another final appearance at the Syed Modi Memorial the following fortnight. A few months later came his best performance – Tanongsak surged into the semi-finals of the All England.
Tanongsak is the reason, along with Saina Nehwal, for Hyderabad Hotshots’ entry into the final – he won each of his five matches, beating players like P Kashyap, Marc Zwiebler, Sourabh Verma, Sai Praneeth and Guru Sai Dutt.
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