Last Updated: April 30, 2023, 19:48 IST
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty (Twitter)
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty defeated Ong Yew Sin and Teo Ee Yi 16-21, 21-17, 21-19 in the lads’s doubles last to win gold on the Badminton Asia Championships
India’s prime males’s doubles pair Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty received gold after beating the Malaysian pair of Ong Yew Sin and Teo Ee Yi 16-21, 21-17, 21-19 in the summit conflict of the Badminton Asia Championships in Dubai on Sunday.
Satwik-Chirag had develop into the primary Indian duo since Dinesh Khanna in singles in 1965 to enter the ultimate of the continental badminton occasion. The Indian duo had themselves assured a medal after 52 years in the lads’s doubles class after they bought the higher of Indonesia’s skilled duo Mohammad Ahsan and Hendra Setiawan in straight video games 21-11, 21-12 in the quarterfinals.
Satwik and Chirag bagged the second gold for India in this mega occasion. Apart from the gold received by Dinesh Khanna, India have received 17 bronze medals in numerous classes in the Badminton Asia Championships since 1962. Satwik and Chirag, who received the bronze medal in Men’s Doubles on the 2022 World Championships in Tokyo, have claimed two bronze medals in the Asian Team Championships (2016, 2020).
The gold medal on the Asian Badminton Championships is the largest medal in their profession. The Indian duo have received 5 titles on the BWF World Tour and have twice completed runners-up.
India have to this point received just one gold in the Asian Championships because it was initiated in 1962 — the gold was received by Dinesh Khanna in males’s singles in 1965.
The Indian duo had sealed a spot in the summit conflict after their opponents, the Tokyo Olympic champions Chinese Taipei’s Lee Yang and Wang Chi-lin, retired halfway by way of the second sport of their semifinal conflict. The 22-year-old Satwiksairaj Rankireddy from Amalapuram in Andhra Pradesh and the 25-year-old Mumbai-born Chirag Shetty had received the primary sport 21-18 and had been going neck-and-neck with their Chinese Taipei opponents at 13-14 when Lee Yang and Wang Chi-lin withdrew, giving them a walkover.
The Indian duo opened the event with a win over the Malaysian workforce of Tan Kian Meng and Tan Wee Kiong 21-14, 21-17. They then bought the higher of the South Korean unit of Jin Yong and Na Sung Seung 21-13, 21-11 in the spherical of 16. India’s prime doubles duo confronted Indonesians Mohammed Ahsan and Hendra Setiawan in the quarters, who they managed to brush apart 21-11, 21-12.
Other prime Indian gamers PV Sindhu, HS Prannoy and Kidambi Srikanth misplaced in earlier phases in their respective sections.
(With inputs from Agencies)
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