Indonesia Open: India’s star pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty on Saturday stormed into the finals of the Indonesia Open in Jakarta as they make their first-ever look in a summit conflict in Super 1000. Satwik and Chirag misplaced the opening sport to unseeded Min Hyuk Kang and Seung Jae Seo of Korea after which made a comeback to clinch the match in three video games. However, the Indian followers have been disenchanted as HS Prannoy suffered a straight-game defeat to the top-seeded Viktor Axelsen of Denmark.
Satwik and Chirag have been overwhelmed within the first sport by a margin of 17-21 earlier than storming again into the competition and clinching the subsequent two video games by 21-19 and 21-18. They now maintain a 3-2 head-to-head report over Kang and Seo. Meanwhile, Prannoy went down by 15-21, 15-21, and saved his head-to-head report in opposition to Axelsen 2-6.
“We feel really good the way we played today. They made a comeback in the third game but we stuck till the end and I am happy that we didn’t run away from our tactics. We stuck to it till the very end. The first time we are in a Super 1000 final and so it feels good,” Chirag mentioned after the win.
“They (Koreans) to have a really strong defence, so it was sort of an attack vs defence game. You just can’t blindly attack them. We were mixing it up,” he added.
The Indian duo have been trailing 3-6 within the first sport after which saved taking part in the catch-up sport. The Indians decreased the margin to 15-19 however then went down by 17-21. In the second sport, they have been on tune and led 6-3 earlier than making it 11-4 in a rush. Even although the Koreans made a comeback to make it 18-15, the Indians drew degree with 21-19. In the decider, the Indian pair led by 12-5 and regardless of getting it leveled at 16-16, Satwik and Chirag managed to clinch the decider.
The Indians will now face World Champions W.Y. Soh and A. Chia within the remaining.
