Celebrated Indian shuttlers Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty superior to the second spherical of the boys’s doubles occasion at India Open Super 750 event however an erratic Kidambi Srikanth bowed out after a straight-game loss to Hong Kong’s Lee Cheuk Yiu in New Delhi on Wednesday. World No. 2 Satwik and Chirag, who had completed runner-up at Malaysia Super 1000 final week in Kuala Lumpur, eked out a 21-15 19-21 21-16 win over Fang-Chih Lee and Fang-Jen Lee of Chinese Taipei.

Earlier, a flurry of sensible pictures was sandwiched between a collection of unforced errors through the 47-minute opening spherical conflict as Srikanth went down 22-24 13-21 to world no. 18 Lee.

The Indian duo will face the winner of the match between England’s Ben Lane and Sean Vendy and Chiense Taipei’s Lu Ching Yao and Yang Po Han.

Satwik and Chirag, the Asian Games gold medallists, appeared sharp as they opened up a lead and earned the bragging rights by grabbing the opening sport. But Fang-Chih and Fang-Jen managed to claw again within the second sport to take a 11-5 lead on the break.

The Indian pair nevertheless led a late struggle again to slim it all the way down to 18-19 however their opponents held their nerves to power a decider.

In the ultimate sport, Satwik and Chirag as soon as once more dominated the rallies with their attacking strokes to come back up trumps.

“We are really happy with the way we are playing and the way we have started. We have worked a lot on our defence over the past two years and it has brought a new facet in our armor because you can’t always rely on your attack in these slow conditions.

“We are completely satisfied to get that first win right here and hopefully, we go deep into the event,” Satwik said. In men’s singles, Srikanth made a good start in the opening game, playing some fine strokes from the back court to keep his nose ahead. But Lee kept breathing down his neck and slowly came back to the groove and, following a tight battle, moved ahead from 17-17 to grab three game points.

Srikanth managed to claw back at 20-20 before taking a one-point lead, but then, sprayed a shot wide, as Lee sealed the game with a crisp drop in the end.

While he looked good in the first game, Srikanth fell behind 2-11 at the break after the change of ends. He recovered to 6-12, but the damage was already done as the gap was too big to be bridged by the Indian.

“I do know I’ve been making unforced errors for generally and I’m engaged on it,” said Srikanth after the match.

“I do not play secure, that is my sport. I attempt to earn factors. Hopefully, issues will probably be higher in subsequent few tournaments. Parupalli (Kashyap) has just a few issues on his thoughts, so lets see. If I win just a few tournaments, I’ll qualify for Olympics.

“I am not thinking about it as I just don’t want to qualify only, I want to be a medal contender too.” Earlier, world No. 20 Tanisha Crasto and Ashwini Ponnappa, who had gained the Guwahati Masters Super 100 final December, went down combating to world No. 10 Thai pair of Jongkolphan Kititharakul and Rawinda prajongjai 5-21 21-18 11-21 of their ladies’s doubles opener.

Sathish Kumar Karunakaran and Aakarshi Kashyap additionally confronted defeats, shedding to Japan’s Takuma Obayashi and China’s Chen Yu Fei respectively.

Among different Indians, the boys’s pair of Krishna Prasad Garaga and Sai Pratheek, and ladies’s duo of Ashwini Bhat and Shikha Gautam went down in straight video games to make an early exit from the event.

In ladies’s singles, defending champion An Se-Young of South Korea eked out a 14-21, 21-11, 21-11 win over three-time India Open champion Ratchanok Intanon of Thailand, whereas two-time former World Champion Akane Yamaguchi of Japan overcame Mia Blichfeldt of Denmark 26-24, 21-13.

In males’s singles, Indonesia’s Jonatan Christie defeated Hong Kong’s Angus NG Ka Long 21-13, 21-7, whereas Tokyo Olympics bronze medallist Anthony Ginting beat Japan’s Kanta Tsuneyama 16-21, 23-21, 21-17.

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