Commonwealth Games gold medallists Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty rallied to beat France’s Christo Popov and Toma Junior Popov to enter the lads’s doubles pre-quarterfinals of the French Open Super 750 match on Tuesday.
Paris,UPDATED: Oct 25, 2022 23:32 IST
French Open: Rankireddy-Chirag enter pre-quarters (Reuters)
By India Today Web Desk: Commonwealth Games gold medallists Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty got here again sturdy to win their first spherical of the French Open Super 750 on Tuesday on the Stade Pierre de Coubertin in Paris. Chirag-Satwik rallied to beat France’s Christo Popov and Toma Junior Popov to enter the lads’s doubles pre-quarterfinals.
The Indian duo misplaced the primary recreation 19-21 however recovered strongly to win the following two 21-9, 21-13 of their spherical of 32 match.
However, Birmingham Commonwealth Games bronze medallists Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand bowed out of the match after shedding in straight video games of their opening girls’s doubles match.
Treesa and Gayatri put up a gallant battle earlier than shedding 21-23, 20-22 to the sixth-seeded Thai pair of Jongkolphan Kititharakul and Rawinda Prajongjai.
In the blended doubles, Ishaan Bhatnagar and Tanisha Crasto additionally could not cross the primary spherical, shedding 13-21, 16-21 to Japan’s Kyohei Yamashita and Naru Shinoya. After two reverses, world quantity 8 Rankireddy and Chirag ended the day on a optimistic observe for India.
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Oct 25, 2022
