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11Mar

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All England 2024: All eyes on Satwik-Chirag as Indian contingent – with legendary coaches in their corner – look to end 23-year-wait

The prestigious All England Open starts in Birmingham on Tuesday and if you are an Indian badminton fan, you could be forgiven for thinking the stars are aligning. It’s an event steeped in history, but for India, one where success has been elusive for 23 years – even in the golden era of Saina Nehwal, PV Sindhu, and a plethora of men’s singles stars.This week, there is A New Hope. In the spirit of Leia’s message from the 1977 epic – ‘Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You’re my only hope’ – India’s top shuttlers will look to a collection of Jedi masters in their corners. Among the coaching group that will help them guide through tricky draws, are two of India’s only champions of this famous event. Prakash Padukone’s 1980 triumph was one of the pivotal moments in Indian badminton. Pullela Gopichan...

5Mar

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Satwiksairaj Rankireddy’s racquet work at the net needs minor tweaking ahead of Paris Olympics

Satwiksairaj Rankireddy didn’t quite know until a hoot of a video interaction about their memes with the Bridge website recently, what the comic-book staple ‘kryptonite’ implied.Confidence is their cape. And vulnerabilities don’t exactly loom on his and fellow-superperson Chirag Shetty’s legend easily, as they forge ahead with eternal ‘apna time aayega’ optimism. In beating Malaysians Ong Yew Sin and Teo Ee Yi 21-13, 24-22 to kick off the French Open, there was little cause of concern at the Porte de LA Chapelle arena. Yet, like the jagged, green krypronite, there is an awkward, pointy part of the formidable Satwik’s game, that can suddenly cut short their flying. It’s not a particular opponent. And nothing insurmountable for the hugely talented 23-year-old. It might only need the tinie...

21Jan

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Finals flourish goes missing for Satwik-Chirag as they stutter in third straight summit clash

Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy had a formidable reputation. That when they go deeper in tournaments, they eventually win them. In 2022 and 2023, they won eight straight finals they contested on the circuit until China Masters late last year. It is a trend right from the start of their partnership except for the French Open in 2019.The run ended at the China Masters in November. Starting from that, the soon-to-be World No 1 pair have lost three straight finals. The latest defeat came on Sunday at the India Open Super 750 at the IG Stadium in Delhi. In a thrilling rollercoaster of a men’s doubles final, Satwik-Chirag went down 15-21, 21-11, 21-18 in a 65-minute battle against the reigning World Champions Kang Min Hyuk and Seo Seung Jae. While losing three straight finals, and t...

20Jan

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SatChi on a slaying spree as Indian pairing make India Open final

You wait for something for so long, and then it happens not once but repeatedly in quick succession. Like London buses, as the saying goes, India’s Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty defeated former world champions Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik for the third straight time after 8 consecutive losses. The second-seeded Indians defeated the Malaysians 21-18, 21-14 in 45 minutes to reach their second straight final on the BWF World Tour this year at the IG Stadium for the India Open.As a result of the win, Satwik and Chirag are set to return to the top of the world rankings in next week’s update as defending champions Liang Wei Keng and Wang Chang, currently occupying that spot, lost earlier in the event. The match was set up beautifully in terms of context. After having lost 8 straigh...

19Jan

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India Open Super 750: Satwik-Chirag pull out ‘mind tricks’ to avenge Worlds defeat and enter semifinals

Men’s doubles, in general, is fast and furious but the Danish duo of Kim Astrup and Anders Skaarup Rasmussen have a knack to rush their opponents even more. When they are in the zone, they barely give breathing room between points and dictate the tempo. It’s something Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty know all too well. The Indian star duo have struggled in the past against them, most recently suffering a heartbreaking loss at the 2023 World Championships, a defeat that Satwik says gave him sleepless nights. But during the India Open Super 750 quarterfinal in Delhi on Friday, Satwik-Chirag produced a win that appeared dominant. The attacking brilliance reflected in the 21-7, 21-10 scoreline but the mental resolve is hidden between the lines. For instance, the Danes recovered dec...

20Dec

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After Satwik-Chirag, a host of badminton doubles pairings ready to step up in Olympic year

One of the rub-offs of the success of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty in doubles is a bunch of younger-paired shuttlers starting to aim high. As soon as the possibility of an Olympic qualification was dangled in front of Tanisha Crasto, the formerly laidback 20-year-old got her act together. Her off-court habits – sleep and food-related – have wisened up. And she’s considerably calmer on court, helped by Ashwini Ponnappa’s composed presence. The year’s final month has seen Tanisha enter the Top 25 in doubles rankings with Ashwini, and the rejigged pair of Tanisha and Dhruv Kapila win their first minor title in mixed, raising hopes of a strong headway in a category where Indians haven’t quite taken off since Jwala Gutta-V Diju left the scene a decade ago. Tanisha had a blossomi...

24Nov

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China Masters Super 750: Satwik-Chirag reach another SF in remarkable 2023, but here’s why they haven’t qualified for World Tour Finals

As the quarterfinal featuring Chirag Shetty-Satwiksairaj Rankireddy got underway on Friday at the China Masters Super 750 in Shenzhen, former Olympic bronze medallist Chris Langridge made an observation on air: “I think the Indians have the best attack in the world.”It was a viewpoint that would be validated over the next 46 minutes as the top seeds from India breezed past the tricky Indonesian duo of Leo Rolly Carnando and Daniel Marthin 21-16, 21-14. Chirag and Satwik had a 3-0 record against the 2019 Junior World Champions coming into this match, but the contests between these two pairs were never as straightforward as that would suggest. Every one of those past three matches have gone the distance, with the Indians needing three games to win. When the match started, it would seem we...

26Oct

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French Open 2023: PV Sindhu retires mid-match after left knee injury; Satwik-Chirag bow out in three games

Despite leading in her round of 16 match against Thailand’s Supanida Katethong, PV Sindhu retired hurt due to an issue with her left knee at the Frence Open Super 750 tournament in Rennes on Thursday. It was also the end of the campaign for defending champions and world No 1 Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty as they lost 23-25 21-19 19-21 in a thriller against Indonesian legends Mohammad Ahsan and Hendra Setiawan. Sindhu took the call to stop the match with the scoreline at 21-18 1-1 in what is perhaps the first time she has retired mid-match in her career so far, as per information available on BadmintonStatistics. After her opening-round win against Gregoria Mariska Tunjung, where she had to dig deep after losing the first game, Sindhu had said she was running on fumes toward...

15Oct

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The comeback kids of Indian badminton

Clutching his back held together by a belt and its jagged, scratchy velcro, bent over breathless at the end of each closing point, HS Prannoy’s audacious down-the-line winner after saving two match points against Lee Zii Jia could be the enduring image of Indian badminton this Asian Games. Satwik-Chirag brought the glory, Prannoy brought the guts to the quadrennial.The man was struggling with pain, and Zii Jia stole two match points away from him from the brink of a win in the second to push this into a decider. That third set had been pure drama, and is fresh in the mind ten days later. Prannoy led 11-10 in the decider. The Malaysian had steered two net chords his way at closing stages of the second, and one went in Prannoy’s direction to make it 18-18 in the third. A long attritional ...

7Oct

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Asian Games: Chirag Shetty summons ‘Nadal-like’ resilience to overcome illness and partner Satwiksairaj Rankireddy to historic badminton gold

Satwiksairaj Rankireddy has a new name for Chirag Shetty. “Rafael Nadal,” Satwik laughs. “He never gives up. I could see it this week.”They joke about it now, nearly 30 minutes after winning the country’s first-ever badminton gold medal at the Asian Games. But when they were on court, Chirag feared he’d collapse if he stood still. Or at least Mathias Boe did. Between almost every point during the final, the Danish doubles coach of the Indian pair kept reminding and urging Chirag to move around the court. “He was constantly asking me to keep moving and not stay still because I still am not physically 100 per cent,” Chirag says. But at least he was fit enough to take the court. Chirag and Satwik won India’s first-ever badminton gold medal at the Asian Games, defeating the South Korean duo...

7Oct

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Asian Games: Satwik-Chirag become first India’s first ever Asiad gold medallists in badminton

They were denied at World Championships, and at Singapore and Malaysia this year. Low points they dealt with by returning to the board. But Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty bounced back every single time from disappointment in 2023. And on Saturday in Hangzhou, they won a historic Asian Games gold. No Indian shuttler had ever won the Asian Games gold medal before this. Satwik-Chirag beat pedigreed Koreans Choi Sol Gyu and Kim Won Ho 21-18, 21-16, blazing with their attacking play and holding their nerve when trailing to give India its finest shuttle moment at the Asiad. The sound of the Chinese national anthem had firmed up Satwik-Chirag’s resolve to go one step better than the team event where they finished with silver. Just as the bounce-back had happened at Commonwealth Game...

6Oct

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Asian Games, badminton: Satwik-Chirag one win away from biggest title of their careers

The rise of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty has been badminton’s equivalent of India launching its first-ever sounding rocket, that quantum jump for launch vehicles 60 years ago. This tale of the two towering shuttlers has all the trial-and-error processes, all the amateurish figuring out of what works and what doesn’t, and all the professional expertise from different countries pieced together bit by bit, to finally construct an indigenous marvel.On Saturday, Satwik-Chirag play the biggest final yet of their careers – the Asian Games summit clash, and several eyes will be glued to TV sets and mobile screens to watch if their golden dream is realised. They reached there beating the Malaysia duo of Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik 21-17, 21-12. The World No. 1 chart-topping eventual...

4Oct

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India at Asian Games 2023, Day 12 schedule: Shuttlers in quarterfinal action, Ghosal eyes squash gold, women’s hockey semifinal, compound archers look to impress again

Neeraj Chopra delivered once again on what was yet another rich-medal haul day, as India set a new record for their best ever medal tally at the Asian Games. As we reach the business end of the event, the tally is only set to increase. Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Ojas Pravin Deotale and Co have been on fire in Hangzhou and they are potentially looking at more medals in the women’s and men’s compound team events on Thursday. Hockey: Semifinal time for women’s team The men have done their part to edge through to the final and now the attention shifts to Savita Punia and Co, who will face a stiff test against hosts China. Badminton: Crunch time for top shuttlers PV Sindhu, HS Prannoy, Satwik-Chirag are one win away each from ensuring a place on the podium. While Satwik-Chirag came through a tri...

1Oct

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India at Asian Games 2023, Day 9 schedule: Sutirtha / Ayhika in TT semifinal, more track & field medals on the cards; archery, badminton action

After a dramatic Sunday in Hangzhou, when India won 15 medals in a single day, action continues in full pace at the 19th Asian Games on Monday. After Avinash Sable’s gold on Sunday, it will be over to Parul Chaudhary in women’s 3000m steeplechase where she will also be joined by Priti. Shaili Singh and Ancy Sojan are in women’s long jump final, while the mixed 4x400m relay team will look to impress too. Pavithra in women’s pole vault and Amlan Borgohain in men’s 200m are the other athletes in medal events. Also, watch out for Tejaswin Shankar in the decathlon that gets underway on Monday. Table tennis: Women’s doubles semifinal After their stunning win over world champs Chen Meng and Wang Yidi to be assured a horic medal, India’s Sutirtha Mukherjee and Ayhika Mukherjee will be hoping to...