Badminton, Thailand Open Super 500: Satwik-Chirag, Ashwini-Tanisha enter semi-finals; Meiraba exits
Meiraba Maisnam went down 12-21, 5-21 to world No 8 Kunlavut Vitidsarn in the men’s singles quarter-finals.
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The Indian men’s doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty advanced to the semi-finals of the 2024 Thailand Open Super 500 on Friday with a straight-game win over 21-7, 21-14 win over Malaysia’s Junaidi Arif and Roy King Yap.
Earlier, Ashwini Ponnappa and Tanisha Crasto made it through to the women’s doubles semi-final after a tense match against South Korea’s Lee Yu Lim and Shin Seung Chan. The fourth seeded Indian pair came up with a tight 21-15, 21-23, 21-19 win over the sixth seeds from South Korea.
Meanwhile, Meiraba Luwang Maisnam’s impressive run at the tournament came to an end in a 12-21, 5-21 loss to world No 8 Kunlavut Vitidsarn in the men’s singles quarter-finals.
Rankireddy and Shetty, the top seeds in the competition, were far too superior for Arif and Yap, who are ranked 64th in the world. The Indians strolled to take the first game 21-7 without breaking a sweat.
The Malaysians did put up a better display after the change of sides in the second game, but the world No 3 pair of Rankireddy and Shetty were too hot to handle as they pocketed it 21-14 to wrap up the match in 38 minutes.
In the women’s doubles encounter, Ponnappa and Crasto fought off...
