Satwiksairaj Rankireddy with Chirag Shetty have a good time after defeating South Korea’s Kang Min-hyuk and Seo Sung-jae throughout their males’s doubles semifinal match at Indonesia Open badminton event in Jakarta on June 17, 2023.
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Indian males’s doubles duo of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty fought onerous to advance to the ultimate, however it was curtains for HS Prannoy in the lads’s singles semifinals of the Indonesia Open World Tour Super 1000 occasion in Jakarta on June 17.
The Commonwealth Games gold medalist duo of Satwik and Chirag, seeded seventh, overcame a sport deficit to beat unseeded Min Hyuk Kang and Seung Jae Seo of Korea 17-21 21-19 21-18 to seal their maiden Super-1000 ultimate berth.
The win additionally prolonged their total head-to-head file over Kang and Seo to 3-2.
World No 6 Satwik and Chirag will face the winners Pramudya Kusumawardana and Yeremia Erich Yoche Yacob Rambitan of Indonesia and second seeds Aaron Chia and Wooi Yik Soh of Malaysia.
However, Prannoy didn’t rise to the event in opposition to prime seed Viktor Axelsen of Denmark, happening 15-21 15-21.
Prannoy performed the catch up sport from the onset. He confirmed sparks in between using on his cross courtroom smashes however Axelsen’s drop pictures and courtroom protection was ok to assist him take the lead.
The script unfolded in the identical method in the following sport as Axelsen continued to keep up his upperhand and pocket the sport and match in an identical method.
It was Prannoy’s sixth loss in opposition to the Dane in the worldwide circuit as in opposition to two wins.
The males’s doubles started on a fair keel earlier than the Korean pair surged forward to 6-3.
Once they conceded the lead, Satwik and Chirag had been pressured to play a catch-up sport.
The Indians used their aggressive play to cut back the margin to 15-19 after which 17-20 earlier than Kang and Seo stored their composure to pocket the primary sport, courtesy an unforced error.
The Indians seemed extra purposeful after the change of ends and took an early 6-3 lead earlier than racing to 11-4 with a flurry of quick paced pictures and physique smashes in the second sport.
Satwik and Chirag had been additionally helped by some unhealthy line calls and unforced errors from the Koreans.
But Kang and Seo did not hand over and clawed their manner again in the sport to cut back the hole to 18-15.
But the Indians managed to carry on to their nerves and performed sensibly to pocket the second sport and stage the scores.
The decider went neck and neck until the primary 5 factors earlier than Satwik and Chirag pocketed seven straight factors to race to 12-5 lead.
The Koreans tried onerous to bounce again and at one time levelled the scores at 16-16 however that’s when Satwik and Chirag stepped it up and closed out the sport and the match.
The BWF World Tour is split into six ranges, specifically World Tour Finals, 4 Super 1000, six Super 750, seven Super 500, and 11 Super 300 in order. One different class of event, the BWF Tour Super 100 stage, additionally gives rating factors.
Each of those tournaments gives completely different rating factors and prize cash. The highest factors and prize pool is obtainable on the Super 1000 stage.
