Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty created history as they grew to become the primary Indian males’s doubles pair to advance to the final of the Badminton Asia Championships. The duo made it to the summit conflict after their opponents retired halfway via the semifinal recreation on Saturday. This will likely be India’s first males’s doubles medal on the continental occasion after 52 years.
After successful the primary recreation, Satwik and Chirag had been trailing 13-14 within the second match when the Chinese Taipei duo of Lee Yang and Wang Chi-Lin retired and handed the match to the Indian duo.
They will now face the eighth-seeded Malaysian pair of Ong Yew Sin and Teo Ee Yi within the final on Sunday. They defeated fourth seeds Takuro Hoki and Yugo Kobayashi of Japan 21-6 26-24 within the different semifinal.
Rankireddy and Shetty had earlier made it to the historic semifinals after beating Indonesia’s pair of Mohammad Ahsan and Hendra Setiawan 21-11 21-12 within the quarterfinals on Friday.Â
PV Sindhu and HS Prannoy had misplaced within the quarterfinals within the ladies’s and males’s singles respectively. India star shuttler PV Sindhu bowed out of the quarterfinals of the ladies’s singles as she suffered loss to second-seed An Se Young of Korea. On the opposite hand, HS Prannoy, India’s ace shuttler additionally misplaced within the quarterfinals. Kanta Tsuneyama of Japan defeated him. Their compatriot Kidambi Srikanth bowed out of the match within the spherical of 16. Srikanth misplaced to the fourth-seeded Japanese Kodai Naraoka.
(Inputs from PTI)
