India’s Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, proper, and Chirag Shetty. File.
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India’s prime men’s doubles pair Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty assured a men’s doubles medal on the Badminton Asia Championships after 52 years after outplaying Indonesia’s skilled duo Mohammad Ahsan and Hendra (*52*) within the quarterfinals in Dubai on Friday.
The Indian pair gained by 21-11 21-12. Rankireddy and Shetty now face Chinese Taipei’s Lee Yang and Wang Chi-lin within the final 4 encounter. Earlier, two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu squandered a recreation result in go down towards second seed An Se Young of Korea within the ladies’s singles quarterfinals.
Sindhu, seeded eighth, pocketed the primary recreation 21-18 however regarded utterly off color within the subsequent two video games which she misplaced 5-21 9-21 at hand Young a spot within the semifinals.
The different Indian hope, eight seed HS Prannoy, too bowed out within the men’s singles quarterfinals after conceding his match halfway towards Kanta Tsuneyama of Japan.
Prannoy was trailing 11-21 9-13 when he retired on account of an damage.
Earlier within the day, qualifiers Rohan Kapoor and N Sikki Reddy battled exhausting earlier than dropping a troublesome three-game blended doubles contest towards Dejan Ferdinansyah and Gloria Emanuelle Widjaja of Indonesia.
The Indian pair fought for one hour and 5 minutes earlier than dropping the quarterfinal 18-21 21-19 15-21.
