Hong Kong Open: Satwiksiraj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty Win Opener after Bronze in Badminton World Championships | Badminton News – The Times of India

India’s leading men’s doubling team of Satwiksiraj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty started their Hong Kong Open Super 500 tournament with a victory on Tuesday. On the same day, Kiran George successfully qualified for the head drawing of Messrs Singles.Fresh from their Bronze Medal world championships in Paris, Satwik and Chirag Taiwan’s Chiu Hsiang Chieh and Wang Chi-Lin with scores from 21-13, 18-21, 21-10.The former number one pair showed strong performance in the first game, lost the second, but dominated the last game with their superior net game and powerful smashes.Go further than the border with our YouTube channel. Subscribe now!The Nexth-Seedan duo will then be confronted with the winner between the Japanese Kenyan Mitsuhashi/Hiroki Okamura and Thailand’s Sukphune/Pakkapon Teterratsakul.In the qualifying rounds of Men’s Singles, Kiran won successive victories to enter the main table. He first won against Malaysia in June Wei in Malaysia and then defeated colleague Indian S Sankar Muthusamy Subramanian.Sankar had previously defeated England’s Wang Yue in his opening match. World number 38 Kiran will now be confronted against Jia Heng Jason Teh of Singapore.In a surprising turn of events, Tharun Mannepalli eliminated former world number one Kidambi Srikanth in the qualifying round with scores of 28-26, 21-13.The journey of Mannepalli, however, ended in his next game against the fourth seed of Malaysia Justin Hoh, lost with scores from 21-23, 13-21, 18-21.