New Delhi [India], August 13 (ANI): Young Indian shuttler Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, the one-half of the favored males’s doubles duo with Chirag Shetty, also called ‘Sat-Chi’, turned 23 on Sunday.
Hailing from Andhra Pradesh, Satwiksairaj joined the Pullela Gopichand Academy in 2014 and pursued excellence in doubles competitors. Rest is historical past as together with Chirag, he went on to win many historic titles for India and even registered his identify within the Guinness Book of World Records.
Satwik’s medal journey on the sport’s huge levels began off with a bronze medal in Asian Team Championships, securing the medal together with Chirag, Prannoy HS, and Kidambi Srikanth amongst others within the males’s staff occasion. The males’s staff will as soon as once more clinch a bronze within the 2020 occasion held at Manila.
Satwik has 4 Commonwealth Games medals to his identify. He has a gold and silver every from the 2018 and 2022 editions of the occasion within the combined staff competitors. With Chirag, he has gained gold and silver in males’s doubles in 2018 and 2022. His gold with the combined staff was India’s first gold in a staff occasion in CWG historical past.
Satwiksairaj was part of the Indian staff that made historical past in Bangkok final yr, lifting its first-ever Thomas Cup trophy. The world’s supreme males’s staff championship held since 1949 noticed India seize the trophy for the primary time ever final yr. India defeated Indonesia, probably the most profitable staff in match historical past with 14 titles within the ultimate.
Satwiksairaj and Chirag have additionally gained a bronze medal in Badminton World Federation (BWF) World Championships final yr in Tokyo in a males’s doubles competitors. It was India’s first-ever medal in males’s doubles competitors on the World Championships.
In 2023, Satwiksairaj clinched gold medal within the males’s doubles competitors on the Asian Championships held in Dubai with Chirag.
Satwik and Chirag as a pair have been extraordinarily profitable in BWF World Tour, clinching a complete of seven males’s doubles titles and ending as runners-up twice. Their run began with the 2018 Hyderabad Open they usually adopted it with Thailand Open win in 2019.
In the 2020s, the duo went on a rampage. Not solely they gained huge at CWG, Thomas Cup, World and Asian Championships, but in addition gained the Indian Open, French Open (2022) and Swiss Open, Indonesia Open and Korea Open this yr.
The Indonesian Open was a particularly particular win for the duo, as they grow to be the primary Indian males’s doubles pair to win the occasion. What made it much more huge was the truth that they beat the world number-one pair in QFs and adopted it by beating world champion Malaysian pair of Aaron Chia and Wooi Yik Soh within the ultimate.
The duo is at present ranked at world quantity two in males’s doubles in BWF World Rankings and are enormous medal prospects within the upcoming Asian Games this yr and Paris Olympics 2024.
In July this yr, Satwiksairaj managed to function within the Guinness World Record by putting the quickest smash ever within the Korea Open 2023. Satwiksairaj broke a decade-long document which was set in May 2013 by Malaysian Tan Boon Heong, who had produced a velocity of 493 km/h along with his smash.
The shuttler broke the document by surpassing his velocity by 72 kmph and registered a record-breaking velocity of 565 kmph.
These accomplishments of Satwiksairaj as a shuttler communicate volumes concerning the significance of onerous work and staff work and what these two issues might help one obtain. The quick, agile and athletic model of Satwiksairaj and his companion Chirag makes the matches extraordinarily thrilling. Indians will probably be hoping to see these two get extra medals and championship titles in future. (ANI)