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Badminton Asia Championships: India assured of men’s doubles medal after 52 years as Satwik-Chirag win; PV, Prannoy bow out

The other Indian hope, eight seed HS Prannoy, too bowed out in the men’s singles quarter-finals after conceding his match midway against Kanta Tsuneyama of Japan

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India’s Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty (right)

India’s Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty (right)

India’s top men’s doubles pair Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty assured a men’s doubles medal at the Badminton Asia Championships after 52 years after outplaying Indonesia’s experienced duo Mohammad Ahsan and Hendra Setiawan in the quarter-finals here Friday.

The Indian pair won by 21-11, 21-12. Rankireddy and Shetty now face Chinese Taipei’s Lee Yang and Wang Chi-lin in the last four encounter.

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