India’s leading guys’s doubles set Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty stormed into the finals of the Li- Hong Kong Open 2025 after beating the Chinese Taipe set of Bing-Wei Lin and Chen Cheng Kuan on Friday. This will be Satwik-Chirag’s very first finals look of the year.
The World No. 9 duo of Satwik-Chirag beat the unseeded set of Bing-Wei Lin and Chen Cheng Kuan 21-17, 21-15 to end a streak of 6 successive semifinal losses in 2025.
Seeded 8th in the competition, Satwik and Chirag will now handle China’s World No. 3 pairing of Liang Wei Keng and Wang Chang in the last of Hong Kong Open Super 500 competition. Liang Wei Keng and Wang Chang got rid of Taipei shuttlers Fang-Chih Lee and Fang-Jen Lee 21-19, 21-8 in simply 38 minutes.
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“Final, finally. We’ve been constantly playing semifinals and we really wanted to make the final. It’s been a while so we are extremely happy,” Chirag informed BWF.
Final Appearance For Satwik-Chirag Since Asian Games 2023
The Hong Kong Open 2025 last will be very first top clash for Satwik-Chirag considering that winning the Asian Games gold medal in October 2023 and it works as a significant spirits increase for them after a year spoiled by injuries, health problem and individual problems.
The duo, typically hailed as leaders of Indian guys’s doubles, had actually been fighting to find their rhythm following a tough 12 months.
The 24-year-old Satwik withstood a hard season, missing out on a big part of it due to a repeating back issue and an elbow injury. His problems were intensified by individual disaster when he lost his dad to a heart attack in February 2025. Simply as he resumed training, a bout of chickenpox sidelined him even more.
On the other hand, the 28-year-old Chirag has actually been handling a consistent lower back injury, requiring the set to avoid a number of occasions and affecting their synergy on court.
Regardless of the problems, the duo had actually revealed flashes of sparkle, highlighted by a bronze at the BWF World Championships, ending up being just the 3rd Indian set after Saina Nehwal and PV Sindhu to declare numerous medals at the prominent competition.