Star Indian males’s doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty stormed into the second one spherical with a straight-game win over Thailand’s Supak Jomkoh and Kittinupong Kedren within the Korea Open Super 500 match right here on Tuesday.
The global quantity 3 pair beat Jomkoh and Kedren 21-16 21-14 within the spherical of 32 to arrange a conflict with China’s He Ji Ting and Zhou Hao Dong within the subsequent spherical.
World quantity 27 MR Arjun and Dhruv Kapila, alternatively, could not whole the fit after the previous suffered from a again factor and retired halfway within the opening recreation whilst lagging 5-6 in opposition to 8th seeded Chinese Liu Yu Chen and Ou Xuan Yi of their To set up opening spherical.
“I felt a pain in my back during the rallies. I applied spray for pain relief but I wasn’t feeling comfortable, so we decided to pull out. The physio said it looks like a back spasm and should be fine within a few days . I will be traveling to Japan. So lets see. Hopefully I will be okay,” Arjun instructed PTI.
India’s Harshit Aggarwal additionally could not succeed in the primary draw after dropping to Korea’s Choi Pyeong Gang 15-21 21-10 10-21 in his 2nd qualification fit. He had crushed Tan Jia Jie of Malaysia in his opening fit.
Another Indian, Shashwat Dalal additionally went down in his first spherical, dropping 14-21 17-21 to Jeong Min Seon of Korea, whilst Meiraba Maisnam withdrew from the qualifiers.
Playing their first match since successful the Indonesia Open Super 1000 final month, Satwik and Chirag dished out a compact recreation as they unfolded a 4-1 lead and stored shifting forward to seize an 11-6 lead on the period.
The Indian duo did not give a lot likelihood to its opponent and from 18-15, took the rest issues to seize a 1-0 lead.
After the alternate of aspects, the Thai avid gamers gave a excellent account of themselves as they controlled to guide 9-4. However, Satwik and Chirag quickly scripted a fightback to leap to 15-11 and held their fortress because the Thai mixture crumbled.
Olympic medalist PV Sindhu, Kidambi Srikanth, HS Prannoy can be a number of the Indian contenders this week.
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