India’s high males’s doubles pair Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty assured a males’s doubles medal on the Badminton Asia Championships after 52 years after outplaying Indonesia’s skilled duo Mohammad Ahsan and Hendra Setiawan within the quarterfinals on Friday. The Indian pair received by 21-11 21-12. Rankireddy and Shetty now face Chinese Taipei’s Lee Yang and Wang Chi-lin within the final 4 encounter. Earlier, two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu squandered a sport result in go down in opposition to second seed An Se Young of Korea within the girls’s singles quarterfinals.

Sindhu, seeded eighth, pocketed the primary sport 21-18 however seemed utterly off color within the subsequent two video games which she misplaced 5-21 9-21 at hand Young a spot within the semifinals.

The different Indian hope, eight seed HS Prannoy, too bowed out within the males’s singles quarterfinals after conceding his match halfway in opposition to Kanta Tsuneyama of Japan.

Prannoy was trailing 11-21 9-13 when he retired resulting from an damage.

Earlier within the day, qualifiers Rohan Kapoor and N Sikki Reddy battled laborious earlier than dropping a troublesome three-game combined doubles contest in opposition to Dejan Ferdinansyah and Gloria Emanuelle Widjaja of Indonesia.

The Indian pair fought for one hour and 5 minutes earlier than dropping the quarterfinal 18-21 21-19 15-21.