World Championships: Sat-Chi bow out in quarters

Satwiksairaj Rankireddy.(right) and Chirag Shetty during their quarter-final in Copenhagen yesterday. Pic/AFP

The Indian pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty missed out on a second World Championships medal after suffering a shocking straight games loss to Kim Astrup and Anders Skaarup Rasmussen of Denmark in the men's doubles quarter-finals here on Friday.

The World No. 2 Indian pair, which had claimed a maiden bronze in the last edition, couldn't produce their attacking game and went down 18-12 19-21 to the 11th seeded Danish combination, the 2021 bronze winners, in a 48-minute battle.

Coming into the match with a 2-5 head-to-head count, Satwik and Chirag, who last played the Danish pair in 2021, just couldn't get going as the local favourites, backed by a vociferous crowd, came up trumps.

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