Sydney [Australia], November 20 (ANI): India’s Ayush Shetty, ranked thirty second within the males’s singles badminton world rankings, shocked Japan’s world No. 9 Kodai Naraoka, defeating him 21-17, 21-16 in an exciting one-hour, eight-minute match on the Australian Open 2025 in Sydney, securing his spot within the quarterfinals on Thursday.
This was the third assembly between the 2 gamers in as many months on the BWF World Tour. The Indian badminton participant had additionally defeated Naraoka, a world championships silver medallist, on the Hong Kong Open in September, however misplaced within the opening spherical of the Kumamoto Masters in Japan final week, in line with Olympics.com.
Ayush Shetty, whose US Open triumph this 12 months stays India’s solely title of the season, will face fellow Indian Lakshya Sen within the quarterfinals on Friday.
India’s prime males’s doubles pair, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, cruised to a 21-18, 21-11 victory over the world No. 50 Chinese Taipei duo of Su Ching-heng and Wu Guan-Xun in simply 37 minutes, advancing within the BWF Super 500 quarterfinal in Sydney.
The Indian badminton gamers made a sluggish begin on the Quaycentre in Sydney’s Olympic Boulevard as they discovered themselves trailing the opening sport 15-9 towards Su Ching-heng and Wu Guan-Xun.
Satwiksairaj-Chirag will face Indonesian fifth seeds Muhammad Shohibul Fikri and Fajar Alfian of their top-eight conflict on Friday.
Former world No. 1 Kidambi Srikanth takes on Japan’s Shogo Ogawa, whereas Tharun Mannepalli faces Chinese Taipei’s Lin Chun-Yi within the males’s singles in a while Thursday. The two Indians would meet within the subsequent spherical in the event that they win their opening matches. (ANI)