Dubai [UAE], April 28 (ANI): India’s ace males’s doubles duo of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty on Friday scripted historical past by assuring a males’s doubles medal on the ongoing Badminton Asia Championships after 52 years.
In the quarterfinals on Friday in Dubai, the Indian duo defeated the seasoned Indonesian crew of Mohammad Ahsan and Hendra Setiawan in straight video games, 21-11, 21-12.
The Indian duo Satwiksairaj and Chirag will now face Chinese Taipei’s Lee Yang and Wang Chi-lin within the final 4 encounters.
Earlier, ace Indian shuttler PV Sindhu crashed out of the Badminton Asia Championships 2023 after shedding to second seed An Se Young in a ladies’s singles quarter-final match in Dubai on Friday.
Playing on the Sheikh Rashid Bin Hamdan Indoor Hall, World No. 11 Sindhu suffered defeat in opposition to the South Korean shuttler and went down 21-18, 5-21, 9-21.
The two-time Olympic medalist Sindhu performed nicely within the first recreation and received it regardless of trailing 13-16 at one level. In their earlier 5 encounters, PV Sindhu has by no means defeated An Se Young in a recreation.
An Se Young dominated the second recreation. In the third, Sindhu engaged in longer rallies however An Se Young proved powerful to crack and ran away with the sport convincingly.
The second Indian hopeful, eighth-seeded HS Prannoy, additionally misplaced within the males’s singles quarterfinals after giving up his match in opposition to Japanese opponent Kanta Tsuneyama in the course of the match. Prannoy was trailing 11-21 9-13 when he retired because of an harm. (ANI)