India’s Satwiksairaj Rankireddy-Chirag Shetty Gets Favourable Draw At Paris Olympics In Badminton Men’s Doubles

New Delhi: India’s appropriate-ranked badminton men’s doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty has been given favourable draw at the Paris Olympics, which begins offevolved on July 26. The Indian duo, who claimed the Thomas Cup gold and Commonwealth Video games gold in 2022, had been seeded third and are one in the full favourites to win a gold medal.

Satwiksairaj and Chirag had been drawn in Crew C the place their toughest opponent shall be Indonesia’s world no. 6 combo of Fajar Alfian and Muhammad Rian Ardianto. As well they've acquired world No. 31 German combo of Mark Lamsfuss and Marvin Seidel and world No. forty three Lucas Corvee and Ronan Labar of France within the crew.

Beautifully, the Indian pair are on a 3-go neatly with unbeaten streak in opposition to the Alfian-Ardianto. Their closing win in opposition to the Indonesian pair came in 2023. Alternatively, the combo of Alfian and Ardianto won the All England Open this year. As a chronic way as Corvee and Labar are anxious, the Indian duo played the French pair twice in their career, prevailing on every movements.

17 pairs had been divided in 4 organisations within the badminton men’s doubles at the Paris Olympics. Even as three organisations have 4 pairs every, the fourth and final crew has five pairings. The boys’s doubles draw change into postponed on Friday due to a Court docket of Arbitration of Recreation (CAS) listening to over the massive quantity of pairs within the draw.

The video game’s World governing body had to prolong the draw after CAS ordered BWF to propose to the International Olympic Committee that Corvée-Labar be coated within the Olympic Video games. The inclusion of the French pair made it a revised 17-pair men’s doubles draw, as a substitute of the 16 pairs that to start with qualified.