Satwik-Chirag guarantee India's first males's doubles medal at BWF World C'ships
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Star Indian males's doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Reddy and Chirag Shetty assured themselves of a maiden medal on the World Championships after beautiful world quantity 2 Takuro Hoki and Yugo Kobayashi of Japan within the quarterfinals on Friday.
The world quantity 7 Indian mixture, which had claimed the Commonwealth Video games gold medal earlier this month, dished out a gritty efficiency to outwit the native favourites and defending champions 24-22 15-21 21-14 in an hour and 15 minute to assert India first-ever males's doubles medal on the prestigious match.
It was India's second World Championships medal in doubles with Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa claiming the primary manner again in 2011 within the girls's doubles.
Earlier, MR Arjun and Dhruv Kapila's advantageous run got here to an finish after the Indian pair misplaced to three-time gold medallists Mohammad Ahsan and Hendra Setiawan of their males's doubles quarterfinals.
The unseeded Indian mixture, who had some sensational wins this week, misplaced 8-21 14-21 to the third seeded Indonesian pair in lower than half-hour, drawing curtains to its marketing campaign.
The Indians had earlier defeated eighth seeds Kim Astrup and Anders Skaarup Rasmussen of Denmark within the second spherical.
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