French Open 2022 Badminton: Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty clinch doubles ttle

In
the
final
held
at
Paris
on
Sunday
(October
30),
the
Indian
duo
beat
Taiwanese
pair
—
Lu
Ching
Yao
and
Yang
Po
Han
—
21-13,
21-19.

For
the
records,
Satwiksairaj
and
Chirag
are
the
first-ever
Indian
doubles
pair
to
win
a
BWF
Super
750
tournament.

French
Open
2022
Badminton:
Satwiksairaj
Rankireddy
and
Chirag
Shetty
clinch
doubles
ttle

For
Satwiksairaj
and
Chirag,
it
is
their
second
BWF
World
Tour
event
title
in
2022.

It
may
be
recalled
that
the
Indian
duo
had
won
the
India
Open
Super
500
tournament
in
January
earlier
this
year.

French
Open
2022
Badminton:
Indian
shuttlers
in
action,
schedule,
results,
telecast
and
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streaming
info

Earlier,
Satwiksairaj
and
Chirag
jad
created
a
flutter,
stunning
top
seeds
Takuro
Hoki
and
Yugo
Kobayashi
of
Japan
21-12,
21-16
in
the
quarterfinals.

The
seventh-seeded
pair
had
previously
knocked
out
the
Japanese
duo
in
the
quarterfinals
of
the
Badminton
World
Federation
(BWF)
World
Championships
2022
as
well.

The
French
Open,
also
known
as
French
Open
Super
Series
750,
that
was
founded
in
1935
is
the
eighteenth
edition
of
the
badminton
tournament
under
the
Tour.

A
total
of
64
singles
players
and
96
doubles
teams
from
across
the
globe,
including
as
many
as
five
singles
players
and
four
doubles
pairs
from
India
competed
at
the
BWF-sanctioned
French
Open
2022
badminton
tournament.

Satwiksairaj
and
Chirag
were
the
only
Indians
left
in
the
tournament
on
the
final
da.

Earlier,
in
the
men’s
singles,
HS
Prannoy
and
Sameer
Verma
suffered
contrasting
losses
to
bow
out.

Prannoy,
a
Thomas
Cup
winner,
went
down
fighting
to
China’s
Lu
Guang
Zu
19-
21,
22-20,
19-21
while
Sameer
lost
18-21,
11-21
to
Thailand’s
Kunlavut
Vitidsarn
in
the
pre-quarter
finals.

Kidambi
Srikanth
had
also
crashed
out
of
the
tournament
after
losing
to
Rasmus
Gemke
of
Denmark
21-19,
12-21,
19-21
in
a
match
that
lasted
one
hour
and
15
minutes.