Shuttlers Satwik-Chirag in quarters; Treesa, Gayatri bow out in Denmark

Chirag Shetty (left) and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy

Star Indian men's doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty stood one step away from another World Championships medal after reaching the quarter-finals with a three-game win over Indonesia's Leo Rolly Carnando and Daniel Marthin here on Thursday.

The World No. 2 pair, which had claimed a maiden bronze in the last edition, bounced back from a mid-game slump to outwit Carnando and Marthin, ranked 10th, 21-15, 19-21, 21-9 in the round of 16 match that lasted a little over an hour.

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Earlier, the women's doubles pair of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand, who reached the semi-finals of the All England Championships in the last two editions, couldn't sustain the attack and went down 14-21, 9-21 in 42 minutes against top-seeded Chinese duo of Chen Qing Chen and Jia Yi Fan.It was only the second meeting between Gayatri-Treesa and the Chinese pair with the Indians having lost to the World No. 1 Chinese team at the German Open last year.

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