BWF World Championships 2025: SATWIK-Chirag Settle for Bronze after Semifinal Loss to China | BWF World Championship 2025: Satvik-Chirag’s pair lost in the semi-finals: Bronze medal to India; The pair got a bronze medal in the 2022 season

India’s top badminton pair Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty lost in the semi -finals of Men’s Doubles at the BWF World Championship.

The Indian pair lost 19-21, 21-18, 12-21 in a tough match against China’s Chen Bo Yang and Liu Yi for an hour and seven minutes and had to be satisfied with the bronze medal. The Indian pair also had to be satisfied with the bronze medal in 2022.

First game: thorn collision At the beginning of the match, Satvik and Chirag performed brilliantly. After winning the toss, he decided to receive first. The Indian pair scored the first point with Satvik’s accurate service return. Taking advantage of the mistakes of the Chinese pair of killing in two consecutive smash nets, Satvik-Chairag took a 4–0 lead. Shortly, he was ahead 9-3. The Indian pair was ahead 11–5 at the intervention of the first game. But the Chinese pair made a strong comeback to bring the score to 12-12 and finally won the first game 21-19.

Second Game: Satvik-Chirag’s return In the second game, the Indian pair again made a brilliant start and took a 6–2 lead. But the Chinese pair again returned and equalized the score at 8-8. After this, Satvik and Chirag strengthened their defense and took advantage of every opportunity to take a 15-11 lead. The Chinese pair once again scored the score at 17–17, but Satvik-Chirag showed a brilliant game and won the game 21–18.

Third game: Chinese pair dominated Satvik-Chairag did not start well in the decisive game and soon fell back 0-6 and lost 9 consecutive points. Although later scored some points, it was difficult to stop the Chinese pair, which took a big lead. Finally, Chen-Luu won the game and match 21–12 and made it to the finals.

Paris Olympics avenged by defeating Malaysian pair in the semi -finals The pair of India’s Satwik Sairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty defeated Malaysia pair Aaron Chia and Soh Wui Yik 21-12 21-19 in the quarter-finals on Saturday in Mains Doubles. With this victory, the Indian pair not only avenged their Paris Olympic 2024 quarter -final defeat.

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