World Badminton Championship: Indian males’s doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty ended their journey with a bronze medal on the World Badminton Championships in Tokyo on Friday. The Indian pair needed to accept bronze after shedding to sixth seeded Malaysian pair of Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik of Malaysia within the semi-finals, shattering their gold hopes. Let us let you know that in some international tournaments of Badminton, each the semi-finalists are given bronze.

If we discuss this semi-final match, then the world quantity 7 Indian pair couldn’t reap the benefits of the victory within the first sport and misplaced 22-20, 18-21, 16-21 within the match that lasted 77 minutes. This is the sixth consecutive defeat by the hands of Malaysian pair of Satwik and Chirag. They had additionally misplaced to the pair within the combined crew ultimate of the Commonwealth Games earlier this month. Despite this defeat, the Indian pair carried out impressively on the World Championships and ensured India a medal.

Gold dream damaged

The pair of Satwik and Chirag had been in large type today. In the lately concluded Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, this pair additionally received the gold medal by doing wonderful. In such a scenario, gold was anticipated from this pair right here too. But after shedding within the semi-finals, the dream of gold was shattered. Earlier within the quarterfinals, the Indian pair defeated defending champion Japan pair 24-22, 15-21, 21-14 in a match that lasted one hour and quarter-hour to make sure India’s medal.

Medal after 11 years

India has all the time received medals on this competitors after 2011. This is India’s second medal in doubles on the World Championships. Earlier, the pair of Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa had received a bronze medal in ladies’s doubles in 2011. At the identical time, that is India’s thirteenth medal total on the World Championships. PV Sindhu has received a complete of 5 medals on this competitors together with a gold medal in 2019 whereas Saina Nehwal has bagged a silver and a bronze. Apart from these, Kidambi Srikanth has received silver, Lakshya Sen, B Sai Praneeth and Prakash Padukone have received bronze medals.