Satwiksairaj Rankireddy-Chirag Shetty and Tanisha Crasto-Ashwini Ponnappa advance to Thailand Open semi-finals

Indian men’s doubles star duo Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty reached the semi-finals with a straight-match victory over Malaysians Junaidi Arif and Roy King Yap at the Thailand Open in Bangkok on Friday. The world’s No. 3 Indian pair recorded an easy 21-7 21-14 victory over Arif and Yap in the quarter-finals of the Super 500 tournament. They will next face Chinese Taipei’s Lu Ming-Che and Tang Kai-Wei , in the last four stages. Women’s doubles pair Tanisha Carsto and Ashwini Ponnappa also progressed to the semi-finals.

But unlike Satwik and Chirag, Crasto and Ponnappa had to work hard for an hour and 16 minutes to pull off a 21-15, 21-23, 21-19 victory over the No. 6 South Korean pair of Lee Yu Lim and Shen Seung Chan.

The Indians will next face Thai top seeds Jongkolphan Kititharakul and Rawinda Prajongjai in the semi-finals. However, young Indian shuttler Meirába Luwang Maisnam’s splendid run came to an end when he suffered a 12-21 5-21 defeat to fourth seed Kunlavut Vitidsarn of Thailand.

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