Tokyo Olympics: Satvik-Chirag beat the British pair in the group match, but fail to make quarter-finals

The men’s doubles pair Satviksairaj Rankireddi and Chirag Shetty won in a row over Ben Lane and Sean Wendy from Great Britain, but failed to reach the quarterfinals of the Olympic Games in Tokyo on Tuesday. Satvik and Chirag won the match 21-17, 21-19, but the victory of Li Yang from Chinese Taipei and Wang Chi-Lin meant that the Indian pair could not reach the quarterfinals in any way.

Satwik and Chirag lost their previous match against the Minions, world No.1 Indonesian pair Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo and Marcus Fernaldi Gideon in straight games 21-13, 21-12 in a little over 30 minutes. Satwik and Chirag would have been able to go through to the quarter-finals provided world No.3 pair of Yang Lee and Chi-Lin Wang didn’t beat the Minions.

However the Lee and Wang ended up winning the match 21-18, 21-15, 21-17.

Satwik and Chirag thus end their campaign level on wins with the Minions and the Chinese Taipei pair, the highest ranked men’s doubles players in the world. With only two pairs going into the quarter-finals, Satwik and Chirag were deemed to have been handed a difficult group but they have given their higher ranked opponents a run for their money.