Satwiksairaj Ranki-reddy and Chirag Shetty became the first Indian men’s doubles pair to enter the final of the Badminton Asia Championships after their opponents retired midway through the semi-final match here on Saturday.
After winning the first game, Satwik and Chirag were trailing 13-14 in the second when the Taiwan duo of Lee Yang and Wang Chi-Lin retired, handing the match to the Indians.
They face the eighth-seeded Malaysian pair of Ong Yew Sin and Teo Ee Yi, who defeated fourth seeds Takuro Hoki and Yugo Kobayashi of Japan 21-6, 26-24 in the other semi-final, in the final on Sunday.
Rankireddy and Shetty had earlier made it to the semi-finals after outplaying Indonesia’s experienced duo of Mohammad Ahsan and Hendra Setiawan 21-11, 21-12 in the quarter finals on Friday.
PV Sindhu and HS Prannoy had lost in the quarter finals in the women’s and men’s singles respectively.