BWF World Championship 2025: Satwik/Chirag Ensures India Medal, Other Two Knocked Out

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The men’s doubles pairing of Satwik/Chirag Shetty ensured a medal with a commanding win over their fancied opponent Aaron Chia and Soh of Malaysia while PV Sindhu & Dhruv Kapila and Tanisha Crasto knocked out of the tournament in the quarterfinals of the BWF World Championship 2025 played at Paris on 29th August.

Satwik/Chirag Shetty produced one of their best performances with a straight game win over the 2nd seeded Malaysian pair Aaron Chia and Soh of Malaysia. The first game began with a long 59 rally shots before Indian pairing gets the point. Satwik/Chirag got six successive points at the start to build pressure on Malaysian pair. It was a dominating performance by Satwik/Chirag as they enter into mid-break with 11-5 lead.

After the break, the fight for points continued with another long rally coming to 49 shots. Satwik/Chirag looked in sublime touch to win the first game easily at 21-12.

The second game started with Satwik/Chirag taking the initial points before Aaron and Soh made it 3-3. It was a dominating display by Indian pair putting enough pressure on Aaron and Soh. Despite some resistance from Malaysia, Satwik/Chirag maintained 11-7 lead at the break.

After the break, Satwik/Chirag continued to maintain the lead with their solid defense and attacking play. Both players were involved in another long rally going to 41 shots which resulted Malaysian pair winning the point.

It was another superb rally from both pairs with 46 shots, but this time Satwik/Chirag won the point to make it 19-15. Aaron Chia and Soh took 4 points in succession to level the scores at 19-19. Satwik/Chirag held their nerves to win second game by 21-19 and move into the semi-finals. They will face Y Liu and B Chen of China.

It was curtains for PV Sindhu as she suffered loss to Kusuma Wardani in three thrilling games. The first game saw Wardani starting off brilliantly with lead of 6-3 before Sindhu made a strong comeback to level the scores at 6-6. The Indonesian upped her game to lead 11-6 at the break. After the break, it was one-way as Wardani won by 21-14.

Sindhu showed her class in the second game with lovely attacking shots keeping Indonesian under immense pressure. At the mid-game break, Indian had a commanding 11-3 lead and continued to maintain winning second game by 21-13 to force the match into the decider.

The third game was a closely fought affair right from the word go with both players fighting for each point till 9-9. Wardani showed class to take a 11-9 lead at the break. Despite great resistance by Sindhu, her opponent took important moments winning third game by 21-16.

The mixed-doubles pairing of Dhruv Kapila and Tanisha Crasto great run ended losing to TJ Chen and EW Toh of Malaysia in two straight games. It was a disappointing performance by Kapila and Crasto who looked out of sorts with scoreline of 15-21, 13-21.

The Indian shuttlers returned to podium after missing in the 2024 edition. Satwik/Chirag will look to go ahead in tournament and win gold medal for country.

Results of Indian Shuttlers in Quarterfinals

1.      Satwik/Chirag Shetty defeated Aaron Chia/Soh (Men’s Doubles)- 21-12, 21-19

2.      PV Sindhu lost to Wardani (Women’s Singles)- 14-21, 21-13, 16-21.

3.      Dhruv Kapila/Tanisha Crasto lost to TJ Chen and EW Toh (Mixed Doubles)- 15-21, 13-21.

 


 





Satwik Chirag enters semi-finals of BWF World Championship 2025, ensures themselves medal. 

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