Satwik-Chirag bow out of China Masters semi-finals

Competing in their first event since the Paris Olympics, the former World No. 1 Indian pair, who had reached the finals in the last edition, couldn’t maintain the pressure in a 74-minute encounter, going down 18-21, 21-14, 16-21 to the unseeded Korean duo

The Indian men’s doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty bowed out in the semi-finals of the China Masters Super 750 badminton tournament, losing in three games to Korea’s Jin Yong and Seo Seung Jae on Saturday.

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Competing in their first event since the Paris Olympics, the former World No. 1 Indian pair, who had reached the finals in the last edition, couldn’t maintain the pressure in a 74-minute encounter, going down 18-21, 21-14, 16-21 to the unseeded Korean duo.

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