BWF World Tour Finals: Satwik Rankireddy, Chirag Shetty qualify: The Indian men’s doubles badminton pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty may have lost the semifinals of the Indonesia Open 2021 but the duo created history by qualifying for the Badminton World Tour Finals.
With clouds of uncertainty hovering over their place in the yearly tournament, Satwik and Chirag got a green flag with Akira Koga and Taichi Saito losing their semi-finals at the Indonesia Open.
By booking this ticket, the duo of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty became the first Indian men’s doubles badminton pair to qualify for this prestigious year-ending event.
BWF World Tour Finals: Satwik Rankireddy, Chirag Shetty become first Indian men’s pair to qualify for year-end tournament
Booking a place in the year-end event would have been easier had the Indian duo won the semifinals game against the World No. 1 pair of Marcus Fernaldi Gideon and Kevin Sukamuljo a.k.a the Minions. However, it could not happen as they were defeated 21-16, 21-18 putting an end to their Indonesia Open campaign and also a question mark on their place in the Badminton World Tour Finals.
The worries deepened for Satwik and Chirag after the loss as they were competing against the Japanese duo of Akira Koga and Taichi Saito, who were the hot favorites to find a place in the World Tour Finals. But with the Akira-Taichi duo losing to fellow Japanese shuttler duo of Takuro Hoki and Yugo Kobayashi, 22-20, 21-14, the road was cleared for the Indian pair.
BWF World Tour Finals: Satwik Rankireddy, Chirag Shetty become first Indian men’s pair to qualify for year-end tournament
- Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty qualify for Badminton World Tour Finals.
- Satwik-Chirag become first India men’s badminton pair to qualify for the year-end tournament.
- The 2021 BWF World Tour Finals will be played in Bali, Indoneisa from 1st December to 5th December.
- The Prize Money for the tournament is USD 1,500,000.
For those who are not aware of the yearly badminton tournament, the BWF World Tour Finals, officially HSBC BWF World Tour Finals, succeeds BWF Super Series Finals, is an annual badminton tournament which is held every December of a year. In this, the players with the most points from that calendar year’s events of the BWF World Tour compete for total prize money of at least US$ 1,500,000.
The 2021 Badminton World Tour Finals is scheduled to take place in Bali, Indonesia from 1st to 5th December 2021.
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