Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty created historical past as they turned the primary Indian men’s doubles pair to win the Badminton Asia Championships title. They ended drought of 58 years on Sunday, changing into the primary Indians after Dinesh Khanna to be topped champions on the event.
The duo made it to the summit conflict after their opponents retired halfway by means of the semifinal recreation on Saturday. This will likely be India’s first men’s doubles medal on the continental occasion after 52 years.
The star shuttlers scripted a sensational comeback after a gap recreation reversal to beat the Malaysian mixture of Ong Yew Sin and Teo Ee Yi 21-16, 17-21, 19-21 in a nail-biting remaining.
PV Sindhu and HS Prannoy had misplaced within the quarterfinals within the girls’s and men’s singles respectively. India star shuttler PV Sindhu bowed out of the quarterfinals of the ladies’s singles as she suffered loss to second-seed An Se Young of Korea. On the opposite hand, HS Prannoy, India’s ace shuttler additionally misplaced within the quarterfinals. Kanta Tsuneyama of Japan defeated him. Their compatriot Kidambi Srikanth bowed out of the event within the spherical of 16. Srikanth misplaced to the fourth-seeded Japanese Kodai Naraoka
