With India achieving unprecedented success this season, Kidambi Srikanth feels it will be a great chance for his country to return with their best ever medal haul in badminton from next year's Commonwealth Games.
"last time we had won a good number of medals and now we are playing much better than what we were four years back and we have a great chance of winning more medals this time," Srikanth said here ahead of his opening match against compatriot Subhankar Dey at the Denmark Open.
"We have also the mixed doubles and men's doubles players doing well, apart from the men's singles. So we have a pretty good team this time," he said.
Just a fortnight before the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games, Srikanth had collapsed in the washroom at the Gopichand academy with a brain disease and had to be rushed to the ICU. He spent over a week at the hospital before returning to action at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.
More than three years have passed ever since and now he laughs off at the incident.
"I had comeback from a small disease and I wasn't in good shape. It was some sort of a virus, I don't even know the name. Nobody even wanted to tell me that," he laughs.
"But I was playing good enough so I returned and played at the Commonwealth Games but lost to the Singapore guy. But now after four years, I think I am much more confident after all the experience of the last one year, so it will be different," he added.
Srikanth is likely to clash with local hero and World Champion Viktor Axelsen in the quarterfinals of the ongoing Denmark Open Super Series.