Badminton Asia Championships: Satwiksairaj Rankireddy-Chirag Shetty pair sails to second spherical

MANILA: India’s prime doubles pairing of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty cruised to the second spherical of the Badminton Asia Championships with a straight recreation win right here on Tuesday.
The world quantity 7 and third seeded Indian duo hardly broke a sweat to register a 21-13 21-9 victory towards the Thai pair of Apiluk Gaterahong and Natchanon Tulamok in 27 minutes.
Satwik and Chirag will subsequent lock horns with Japan’s Akiro Koga and Taichi Saito within the second spherical.
Ishaan Bhatnagar and Tanisha Crasto additionally superior to the second spherical of the combined doubles occasion.
The Indian duo obtained the higher of Hong Kong’s Legislation Cheuk Him and Yeung Nga Ting 21-15 21-17 in half and hour.
Nonetheless, it was the tip of the highway for the boys’s doubles duo of Krishna Prasad Garaga and Vishnuvardhan Goud Panjala.
Prasad and Pranjala fought arduous however ultimately conceded the primary spherical tie to Kang Minhyuk and Kim Wonho of South Korea 10-21 21-19 16-21.
They’ll tackle the winners of the tie between South Korea’s Kim Wonho and Jeong Na Eun and the seventh seeded pairing of Tan Kian Meng and Lai Pei Jing of Malaysia.
Later within the day, MR Arjun and Dhruv Kapila will tackle fourth seeds Fajar Alfian and Muhammad Rian Ardianto of Indonesia within the males’s doubles, whereas the combined doubles Venkat Gaurav Prasad and Juhi Dewangan can be pitted towards Praveen Jordan and Melati Daeva Oktavianiti of Indonesia.
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