Star Indian males’s doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty entered the semifinals of the Korea Open Super 500 match with a immediately sport win over Japan’s Takuro Hoki and Yugo Kobayashi Yeosu (Korea) on Friday.
The international No.3 Indian pair, seeded 3rd right here, took simply 40 mins to get the easier of the fifth-seeded Japanese pair 21-14 21-17.
Satwik and Chirag will tackle 2nd seeds Wei Keng Liang and Chang Wang of China, who’re the 2021 international champions in males’s doubles.
Satwik and Chirag are actually India’s flag bearers within the match after the untimely exits of PV Sindhu, HS Prannoy, Kidambi Srikanth amongst others.
Playing their first match since successful the Indonesia Open Super 1000 final month, it was once a neck and neck affair until the primary six issues prior to the Indians surged forward pocketing 4 immediately issues.
Once forward, Satwik and Chirag controlled to stay their nostril in entrance to bag the primary sport simply.
The Indians made a sluggish get started in the second one sport as they trailed 3-6, however lifted their sport simply in time to claw again to clutch six consecutive issues to guide 14-9.
The Japanese pair, on the other hand, had been in no temper to surrender with out a combat. They performed aggressively and had been additionally helped by way of some unforced mistakes by way of the Indians to attract stage at 16-16.
But Satwik and Chirag stepped up at the accelerator at that time to win the sport to guarantee themselves a spot within the last-four level.