Chirag Shetty, Rankireddy win maiden title

CHIRAG SHETTY and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy of India took home their first BWF Super 750 championship on Sunday by winning the men’s doubles event at the French Open 2022.

The Indian badminton team defeated Chinese Taipei’s Lu Ching Yao and Yang Po Han 21-13, 21-19 in the final after eliminating the top seeds from Japan, Takuro Hoki and Yugo Kobayashi, in the quarterfinals. Despite the fact that their previous three victories on the BWF World Tour came in lower-level competition, Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy won this one. The Thailand Open 2019 and the India Open 2022 were both Super 500 competitions, while their first, the Hyderabad Open 2018, was a Super 100 competition as per Olympics.com.

Additionally, this was the first time an Indian men’s doubles team won the French Open badminton championship since Partho Ganguli and Vikram Singh’s victory in 1983.

The seventh-seeded team in the competition, Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, who are ranked as the No. 8 men’s doubles team in the world, got off to a fast start by winning the first five points of the match.