Satwik-Chirag Men’s doubles final match today Scorecard Updates
Satwik-Chirag Live Score, Men’s Doubles Hong Kong Open Badminton Final 2025 LIVE Score: Satwik and Chirag are facing China’s Liang Weikeng and Wang Chang (PTI Photo / File)Satwik-Chirag, Men’s Doubles Hong Kong Open Badminton Final 2025 LIVE Score: Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty will be vying for the men’s doubles title at the Hong Kong Open Super 500 and later in the day, Lakshya Sen will be going for the men’s singles title at the tournament at the Hong Kong Coliseum. Satwik and Chirag will be facing China’s Liang Weikeng and Wang Chang. The Indian world no 9 pair got there after beating Chinese Taipei’s Chen Cheng Kuan and Lin Bing-Wei 21-17, 21-1 in the semifinal, which lasted just 38 minutes. This will be the 10th meeting between the two former world No 1 pairs, with Liang-Wang leading 6-3 but Satwik-Chirag winning the most recent clash in Paris at the Worlds Championships round of 16.
Lakshya, meanwhile, beat world no.3 Chou Tien Chen in a rather epic straight-games win that ended 23-21, 22-20 in the Indian’s favour. This is Lakshya’s first final since the Syed Modi Super 300 last November. The match might have ended in straight games but it wasn’t straightforward, as the players provided a throwback to Paris 2024, where the Indian had won in three games, in another match filled with highlight-worthy rallies. In the final, Lakshya faces a familiar foe in Li Shi Feng for the 14th time in a rivalry that dates back to their junior days. Read more about Lakshya Sen’s win here.Story continues below this ad
For Satwik-Chirag too, this is the first final of 2025, breaking a streak of semifinals defeats. Read more about Satwik-Chirag’s semifinal performance here.
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The broader contours of Satwik and Chirag’s partnership have changed, Ashwini says. (BWF/Badminton Photo)
She rarely or never mentions the significance of it, but Ashwini Ponnappa was right there when India kickstarted the habit of winning medals at World Championships. In 2011, she began the streak with Jwala Gutta, and then went on to be an all-weather well-wisher and true-blue teammate to a pair that has been the biggest doubles story of the last decade – Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty.
“They have risen above the challenges of the past year. We are rooting for them to do even better,” she says with granite-solid loyalty that stems from closely watching your people struggle and then beat back the odds.
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