Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty play towards Indonesia’s Fajar Alfian and Muhammad Rian Ardianto throughout their males’s doubles quarterfinal match at Indonesia Open badminton event in Jakarta on June 16, 2023.
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India’s Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty shocked prime seed Fajar Alfian and Muhammad Rian Ardianto to sail into the boys’s doubles semifinals earlier than HS Prannoy entered the last-four stage of males’s singles competitors on the Indonesia Open in Jakarta on June 16.
Prannoy registered a win over Kodai Naraoka of Japan.
However, world championship silver medallist Kidambi Srikanth bowed out of the boys’s singles competitors after happening preventing to China’s Li Shi Feng within the quarterfinals.
The first Indian to take the courtroom, Srikanth misplaced 14-21 21-14 12-21 in a single hour and 9 minutes towards world No. 10 Feng.
The win enabled Feng to revive parity so far as his head-to-head document towards Srikanth is worried, which stands at 1-1 now.
The seventh seeded duo of Satwik and Chirag then displayed a flawless recreation to outwit Indonesia’s Alfian and Adrianto 21-13 21-13 in 41 minutes.
Satwik and Chirag will play the winner of the quarterfinal between Koreans Min Hyuk Kang and Seung Jae Seo and Indonesia’s Leo Rolly Carnando and Daniel Marthin.
In the ultimate Indian match of the day, seventh seed Prannoy prevailed over Naraoka, seeded third, 21-18 21-6 to guide his semifinal berth.
Prannoy will tackle the winner of the match between prime seed Viktor Axelsen of Denmark and Chinese Taipei’s Tien Chen Chou. In the battle between Srikanth and Feng, the Chinese got here out on prime within the first recreation regardless of taking extra time to get off the blocks.
It was world No. 22 Srikanth, who opened up an early 2-0 lead earlier than Feng bounced again with 5 straight factors, with the Indian responsible of committing too many unforced errors.
The preliminary lead was all Srikanth may handle as his Chinese opponent upped his recreation because the match progressed to take a 11-7 lead on the recreation break.
Feng’s courtroom protection and anticipation was method higher that his opponent, who made quite a lot of errors close to the web.
Barring just a few glimpses of his previous self, Srikanth seemed utterly off color as Feng continued to extend his lead, executing drop photographs with precision and physique smashes to simply pocket the primary recreation.
After an in depth contest initially within the second recreation, it was Srikanth who bounced again in fashion with good smashes and wore out his Chinese opponent by enjoying from entrance to again of the courtroom to take a 11-6 lead.
Srikanth relied on his aggressive play close to the web to take factors and ultimately closed out the second recreation in his favour to degree the scores.
But Srikanth didn’t proceed in the identical vein within the decider as Feng raced to a five- level lead on the mid-game interval, when the Chinese acquired medical consideration on his closely strapped left foot.
The damage hardly had any impact on the Chinese shuttler’s recreation as Srikanth failed to shut the hole within the third recreation.
