Indonesia Open: Satwik-Chirag only bright spot for India; PV Sindhu exits
Satwik-Chirag in action
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy
and
Chirag Shetty
saved a match point before downing Rasmus Kjaer and Frederik Sogaard of Denmark 16-21, 21-18, 22-20 in the second round of the Indonesia Open BWF Super-1000 tournament in Istora Senayan on Thursday.
But it was curtains for
PV Sindhu
, Treesa Jolly-Gayatri Gopichand and Sathish Kumar Karunakaran-Aadya Variyath.
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Sindhu lost a close contest to Pornpawee Chochuwong of Thailand 22-20, 10-21, 18-21, Treesa-Gayatri were defeated 13-21, 22-24 by Japan's Yuki Fukushima and Mayu Matsumoto and the mixed duo of Satish-Aadya were outplayed by Thailand's sixth seeds Dechapol Puavaranukroh and Supissara Paewsampran 7-21, 12-21.
After an hour, eight minute battle, Satwik-Chirag managed to keep a clean slate with their third victory against the Danes. But it was hard work for the Indians.
A much-improved KjaerSogaard nearly pulled off an upset. The hard hitting Danes won the first game with a series of smash winners.
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