Yeosu-si [South Korea], July 22 (ANI): The Indian males’s doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty booked their place into the ultimate of the Korea Open 2023 badminton match on the Jinnam Stadium in Yeosu on Saturday.
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty surpassed the Republic of China’s Liang Weikeng and Wang Chang, present world No. 2 within the badminton rankings, by 21-15, 24-22 to seal their place within the third remaining of the 12 months.
In the ultimate, they’ll face the winners of the opposite semi-final conflict between Indonesian high seeds Fajar Alfian and Muhammad Rian Ardianto and the Republic of Korea’s Kang Min Hyuk and Seo Seung Jae on Sunday.
Both pairs matched one another’s depth firstly of the match, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, gained the higher hand within the first sport after profitable 5 factors back-to-back to make the rating 14-8 from 9-8.
The Indian badminton gamers saved the momentum of their favour to shut out the opening sport with ease. But the Republic of China pair bounced again with an aggressive strategy within the second sport.
Trailing 14-9 at one stage, Liang Weikeng and Wang Chang levelled the scores at 19-all however the Indian duo managed to dug deep to complete off the competition in 40 minutes.
This victory marked their first-ever win over the Chinese duo in three conferences. Liang Weikeng and Wang Chang received the higher of the Indians on the All England Open and Malaysia Open earlier this 12 months.
In their quarter-final conflict, the third seed and world quantity three ranked pair in Badminton World Federation (BWF) Rankings defeated former world champions Takuro Hoki and Yugo Kobayashi of Japan 21-14, 21-17.
The star Indian duo has already received the Swiss and Indonesia Open titles on the 2023 BWF World Tour.
Two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu, in the meantime, suffered one other shock within the opening spherical after the Indian went right down to Chinese Taipei’s Pai Yu Po on Wednesday. (ANI)