Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty© X (Twitter)
India’s Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty stormed into the second spherical of the USD 475,000 Indonesia Masters tremendous 500 badminton with a scientific straight-game win in opposition to Chinese language taipei’s Chen Zhi Ray and Lin Yu Chieh on Tuesday. The Asian Video games champions, who reached back-to-back semifinals at Malaysia Tremendous 1000 and India Tremendous 750 within the final two weeks, outwitted Chen and Lin, ranked thirty eighth on the earth, 21-16 21-15 of their opening match. World No. 19 mixture of Tanisha Crasto and Ashwini Ponnappa stamped their authority over Thai pair of Ornnicha Jongsathapornparn and Sukitta Suwachai 21-6 21-14 within the girls’s doubles opening spherical.
Satwik and Chirag, the previous world quantity ones, will face the winner of the match between Indonesia’s Raymond Inra and Patra Harapan Rindorindo and Thailand’s Kittinupong Kedren and Dechapol Puavaranukroh.
Ashwini and Tanisha, who gained the Guwahati Masters tremendous 100 title, final month will tackle Malaysia’s Pei Kee Go and Mei Xing Teoh subsequent.
In males’s singles, 2023 Odisha Masters runner-up Ayush Shetty brushed apart compatriot Kidambi Srikanth 21-7 21-15, whereas Tanya Hemanth eked out a hard-fought 16-21 21-17 21-15 win over Chinese language Taipei’s Tung Ciou-Tong within the males’s and ladies’s qualifying rounds.
Ayush, a 2023 World junior championships bronze winner, will face prime seed China’s Shi Yu Qi in the principle draw, whereas Tanya will meet Thailand’s former world champion Ratchanok Intanon.
Satwik and Chirag did not have the specified begin because the Taiwanese pair moved to a 8-4 lead early on however the Indians drew parity with 4 straight factors. Thereafter, the 2 pairs had been locked at 14-14 earlier than Satwik and Chirag took a slender 17-16 lead.
The Indians then reeled off the required 4 factors to seal the opening sport.
Having had the measure of their opponents, Satwik and Chirag performed with extra readability and it confirmed as they jumped to 12-5 after the change of sides. The Taiwanese had been then left to do the catching-up job because the Indian pair prevailed comfortably. PTI ATK AH AH
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