The star Indian males’s doubles duo of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty will probably be hoping to proceed with their successful momentum on the Paris Olympics, regardless of their second Group C match in opposition to Germany’s Marvin Seidel and Mark Lamsfuss being cancelled resulting from Mark going through a knee damage, making their third sport a must-win one. As per an announcement from Badminton World Federation (BWF), Mark Lamsfuss has withdrawn from the Olympic Video games Paris 2024 badminton competitors resulting from a knee damage.

“Lamsfuss’ and teammate Marvin Seidel’s remaining Group C matches in opposition to India’s Satwiksairaj Rankireddy/Chirag Shetty (Courtroom 3, 8.30am native time, 29 July 2024) and Lucas Corvee/Ronan Labar of France (Courtroom 1, ‘Not Earlier than’ 2.50pm native time, 30 July 2024) won’t be performed. Matches on these courts in every respective session have been rescheduled. As per BWF Common Competitors Rules for group stage play, the outcomes of all matches performed, or but to be performed, involving in Group C are actually thought of deleted,” added the assertion.

‘Sat-Chi’ began their Paris Olympics voyage with a win over France’s Lucas Corvee and Ronan Labar 21-17, 21-14 within the males’s doubles Group C match on Saturday.

Satwiksairaj and Chirag defeated Lucas Corvee and Ronan Labar in a straight video games and ended the match in 46 minutes.

The French pair fought laborious with the assist of the house crowd, however the star Indian duo finally sailed by.

Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty had been speculated to lock horns with world quantity 31 and 2022 European Badminton males’s doubles champions Marvin and Mark, however an damage has led to the cancellation of the match.

Satwiksairaj and Chirag’s subsequent opponents would be the Indonesian pair of Fajar Alfian and Muhammad Rian Ardianto on Tuesday. This match will probably be a should win for the Indian duo as it’s their final sport earlier than the quarterfinals.

The Indonesia duo was previously a primary pair and is presently ranked seven. Each secured world championship bronze medals within the 2019 and 2022 editions of the competitors and had been additionally part of the 2020 Thomas Cup successful Indonesian crew.

Each of those groups have clashed 5 instances, with the Indian pair having a slight edge with three wins and two losses. Of their latest conflict on the Korean Open 2023 closing, Sat-Chi had prevailed.

Satwiksairaj, alongside along with his males’s doubles companion Chirag Shetty, are maybe the strongest contenders for a medal.

This 12 months, the favored males’s doubles pair, also referred to as ‘Sat-Chi’, have gained two Badminton World Federation (BWF) Tour titles, the French Open title in March 2024 and the Thailand Open 2024 in Could 2024. In addition they completed as runners-up within the Malaysian Open and India Open.

They had been additionally part of the Indian crew that performed within the Thomas Cup 2024 because the defending champions. Nonetheless, they may not defend the title as they misplaced to the eventual champions, China, by 3-1 within the quarterfinals.

With a peak of primary rating in males’s doubles competitors, a number of BWF Tour titles, the World Championships males’s doubles bronze medal in 2022, gold in males’s doubles competitors at Commonwealth Video games 2022 and Asian Video games Hangzhou the next 12 months and silver medals in blended crew occasions at these two occasions, Satwiksairaj-Chirag have an enormous cupboard of medals and accomplishments supporting the declare of them being a number one medal contender.

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