India’s top men’s doubles pair R. Satwiksairaj and Chirag Shetty stormed into the Hong Kong Open final after defeating Chinese Taipei’s Chen Cheng Kuan and Lin Bing-Wei 21-17, 21-15 in just 38 minutes. They next face China’s Liang Wei Keng and Wang Chang.
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty entered the China Open Super 1000 quarterfinals with a straight-game win over Indonesia’s eighth seeds. Meanwhile, H.S. Prannoy lost a hard-fought men’s singles second-round match to sixth seed Chou Tien Chen.
For a long time, Satwik and Chirag have been the best men’s doubles combination on the world badminton stage and were once even ranked World No.1 in 2023. One of the high-points of their career was winning the Asian Games gold in Hangzhou
