Badminton, Thailand Open Super 500: Satwik-Chirag enter fourth final; Tanisha-Ashwini exit
Satwik and Chirag will face China's Chen Bo Yang and Liu Yi in the men’s doubles final on Sunday.
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Top seeds Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty cruised into the men’s doubles finals of the 2024 Thailand Open Super 500 in Bangkok on Saturday.
Rankireddy and Shetty beat Chinese Taipei’s Lu Ming Cheng and Tang Kai Wei 21-11, 21-12 in a semi-final match that lasted 35 minutes.
This is the Indian pairing’s fourth BWF Tour final this season after the Malaysia Open, India Open, and the French Open earlier this year.
Meanwhile, Tanisha Crasto and Ashwini Ponnappa exited the tournament in the semi-finals with a 12-21, 20-22 loss to Thailand’s Jongkolphan Kititharakul and Rawinda Prajongjai.
Rankireddy and Shetty needed just 13 minutes to clinch the opening game against Lu and Tang which they won 21-11. While the opening points saw both pairs exchange serve, Rankireddy and Shetty began to pull away at 5-4 and didn’t look back.
In the second game, the Chinese Taipei duo managed to begin well until they pulled away to lead at 9-6. But Rankireddy and Shetty then fought back to level at 10-all and took a significant lead of 17-10 through a nine-point winning streak.
In the end, Lu and Tang won only two more points as the world No 3 pair clinched the second game 21-12 to enter the finals.
Crasto and Ponnappa were quite outplayed in their...
