Asian Games champions Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty cruised into the men’s doubles pre-quarterfinals at the Macau Open 2025 badminton tournament on Tuesday.
Competing at the Macao East Asian Games Dome in Macau China, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, ninth in the men’s doubles badminton rankings, beat world No. 44 Low Hang Yee and Ng Eng Cheong of Malaysia 21-13, 21-15.
However, Hariharan Amsakarunan-Ruban Kumar Rethinasabapathi exited the BWF Super 300 badminton tournament early after a 15-21, 21-19, 21-14 defeat to Japan’s Tori Aizawa and Daisuke Sano.
In the women’s doubles, Commonwealth Games bronze medallist and top seeds Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand suffered a shock opening round exit after losing 16-21, 22-20, 21-15 against the unseeded Chinese Taipei pair of Lin Xiao-Min and Peng Yu-Wei.
Priya Konjengbam-Shruti Mishra won their match to move into the women’s doubles pre-quarterfinals while Apoorva Gahlawat-Sakshi Gahlawat crashed out after a straight-game loss.
Priya Konjengbam and Shruti Mishra beat Chinese Taipei’s Ling Zih Huang and Wang Szu-Min 21-15, 16-21, 21-17 in a hard-fought match that lasted an hour and nine minutes.
Apoorva Gahlawat and Sakshi Gahlawat were beaten 21-8, 21-11 by Malaysia’s Go Pei Kee and Teoh Mei Xing.
Meanwhile, Anmol Kharb and Tasnim Mir won their respective qualification matches to enter the main draw in the women’s singles.
Anmol Kharb comfortably beat Azerbaijan’s Keisha Fatimah Azzahra 21-11, 21-13 in 37 minutes. The 18-year-old Indian badminton player will face second seed Busanan Ongbamrungphan of Thailand in the opening round.
Tasnim Mir battled past Thailand’s Tidapron Kleebyeesun with a 21-14, 13-21, 21-17 win in qualification. She will face world No. 5 and top seed Chen Yufei of the People’s Republic of China in the first round.
While no Indians in the men’s singles qualification round made it to the main draw, the men’s doubles duo of Dingku Singh Konthoujam-Amaan Mohammad and mixed doubles pair Hema Nagendra Babu-Priya Konjengbam managed to progress.
Hema Nagendra Babu and Priya Konjengbam beat Chinese Taipei’s He Zhi-wei and Yan Fei Chen 21-17, 21-19, while Dingku Singh Konthoujam and Amaan Mohammad overcame Hong Kong China’s Law Cheuk Him and Yeung Shing Choi 21-18, 21-17.
Dingku Singh Konthoujam and Amaan Mohammad will face Pruthvi Krishnamurthy Roy and Sai Pratheek K in an all-Indian first-round men’s doubles match.
Paris 2024 semi-finalists Lakshya Sen, US Open winner Ayush Shetty and world championships bronze medallist HS Prannoy will begin their campaigns in the men’s singles main draw on Wednesday.