Last Updated: April 28, 2023, 22:34 IST
Indian badminton stars Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty (Twitter)
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty assured a males’s doubles medal after 52 years on the Badminton Asia Championships
India’s prime males’s doubles pair Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty assured a males’s doubles medal on the Badminton Asia Championships after 52 years after outplaying Indonesia’s skilled duo Mohammad Ahsan and Hendra Setiawan within the quarterfinals in Dubai on Friday.
The Indian pair received by 21-11 21-12. Rankireddy and Shetty now face Chinese Taipei’s Lee Yang and Wang Chi-lin within the last-four encounter.
Earlier, Former world champion PV Sindhu misplaced to world No. 2 An Se Young in her ladies’s singles quarter-final match on the Sheikh Rashid Bin Hamdan Indoor Hall. World No 11 Sindhu suffered her sixth straight defeat towards the South Korean shuttler by happening 21-18, 5-21, 9-21.
The different Indian hope, eight seed HS Prannoy, too bowed out within the males’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 harm.
(*52*)Meanwhile, India’s blended doubles staff of Rohan Kapoor-N Sikki Reddy additionally misplaced to the world No. 19 duo of Dejan Ferdinansyah-Gloria Emanuelle Widjaja from Indonesia 18-21, 21-19, 15-21 within the quarter-finals.
(With inputs from Agencies)
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