He was clearly upset to overlook out the Indian Open title, however star Indian shuttler Satwiksairaj Rankireddy on Sunday mentioned ”shedding is healthier than profitable all the time” and hoped the defeat within the remaining will spur him and his doubles accomplice Chirag Shetty to win a much bigger crown in coming days.

Home favourites Satwik and Chirag signed off with a second successive runner-up end after shedding a tense remaining towards world champions Kang Min Hyuk and Seo Sang Jae on the Super 750 badminton match right here on Sunday.

”I really feel generally shedding is healthier than profitable all the time. There have been few tournaments the place we misplaced after which we bought fortunate to win however I really feel when it issues, it’ll come, we simply want to hold in there,” Satwik informed reporters.

”Playing back-to-back tournaments is hard for us. There are plenty of good issues to take. We needed to hit the rostrum however we’re upset we couldn’t win however we’re nonetheless hungry. We aren’t glad. So that may pump us.

”Next few days, we’re taking off after which we begin once more for All England and French Open. So shedding is healthier generally. I really feel it’ll give us plenty of motivation,” added the 23-year-old.

Satwik and Chirag, the Asian Games champions, misplaced 21-15 11-21 18-21 to Kang and Seo after the 2 pairs fought for 65 minutes for some breath-taking badminton on the KD Jadhav Indoor stadium right here.

”Overall, I feel we’re unhappy, shedding that remaining in our residence match, however the previous two weeks have been actually good. But yeah, I feel that title nonetheless eludes,” Chirag mentioned.

”It will come, we simply should preserve our heads down and preserve working. And the massive titles will come.” The Indian duo, who received the 2022 version, had completed runners-up on the Malaysia Super 1000 final week as properly. They had additionally completed second finest on the China Masters final yr.

”There is fatigue. We’ve by no means performed back-to-back finals in our complete lives, in all probability in problem tournaments, however by no means in Super 500 or Super 750. So the constructive factor is that we’re enjoying fairly constantly,” Chirag mentioned.

”The not-so-good factor is that we could not win the finals. But clearly, you may’t win every part. Our goal is to win different huge occasions. And I do know that finally, issues will flip in our favour. We simply want to stay proper there.

”But to have a look at the bigger image, we’re blissful that we may play the finals. Eventually, we are going to get that.” Analysing their efficiency, Satwik mentioned: ”I really feel in Malaysia we performed like 80% of attacking recreation, we did not use our defence. Here additionally within the beginning few matches, we stored on attacking. In the semis and quarterfinals, we used a little bit little bit of our protection.

”I really feel like there may be far more in our tank and we will play an all-around recreation. Today, that was a minus factor. We may have used the total courtroom and we may have moved them, then issues may have been completely different.

”The greatest constructive factor is mentally we’re there and bodily will be a lot better. We get drained as a result of we each like to play attacking badminton and that is why we get drained and get accidents simply.” Chirag mentioned defending the Thomas Cup title in May will probably be one of many greatest targets this yr.

”We wish to do properly on the Asian Team Championships however our fundamental purpose can be to do properly on the Thomas Cup. We are the defending champions there. And we wish to be on the rostrum, however hopefully retain, retain our title.” While the Indian duo determined to drag out of subsequent week’s Indonesia Masters Super 500, Satwik mentioned the goal for them stays to make the rostrum within the tournaments that they compete in.

”Right now, we aren’t enjoying Indonesia,” Satwik mentioned. ”We needed to play much less match however extra high quality. So that was the important thing in 2023 as properly. We may have performed 15-16 tournaments and we may have certified for the World Tour Finals however our goal was to not get injured, no matter we have been enjoying, the ultimate was our goal. ”So now we performed workforce championship after which French and All England, after which we take it from there on.”

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