French Open Super 750 badminton event stars Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty have progressed to the second round.
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty moved to the second round of the French Open Super 750 badminton event with a hard-fought straight-game victory over Malaysia’s Ong Yew Sin and Teo Ee Yi in Paris on Tuesday. Satwik and Chirag, world number one, won the title in 2022. The Asian Games winners made a strong start to the competition on Tuesday, defeating the world’s No. 12 Malaysian combination 21-13 24-22 in 47 minutes for their fifth victory in the previous eight meetings.
Satwik and Chirag, who finished second in their last three competitions, will meet another Malaysian pair, Man Wei Chong and Kai Wun Tee, in the following round.
Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand, Commonwealth Games bronze medalists, advanced to the second round of women’s doubles after defeating Ashwini Ponnappa and Tanisha Crasto 16-21 21-19 21-17 in an all-Indian opener.
