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