Satwik-Chirag to return at China Masters
Hindustan TimesNew Delhi: India’s finest men’s badminton doubles pair Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty will return to action after a gap of three-and-a-half months, at this week’s $1.15 million China Masters at Shenzhen. Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty will return to action after a gap of three-and-a-half months The Hangzhou Asian Games champions have not played since their quarterfinal loss in the Paris Olympics. Seeded sixth, Rankireddy and Shetty will face world No.10 Lee Jhe-huei and Yang Po-hsuan of Chinese Taipei in the opening round of the Super 750 tournament at the Shenzen Arena. Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand will face Chinese Taipei’s Hu Ling Fang and Jheng Yu Chieh in the women’s doubles opener while the husband-wife pairing of N Sikki Reddy and B Sumeeth Reddy are India’s lone entry in mixed doubles.