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Thursday, Aug 14, 2025
It turned out to be a dismal day for Indian shuttlers as P V Sindhu, B Sai Praneeth, Sameer Verma, and the men's doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty all went down in straight games.
The world No.5 has been cleared of a doping charge after it was found she ingested contaminated meat.
The World No. 11 Indian pair had an impressive week as they shocked reigning world champions Mohammad Ahsan and Hendra Setiawan, before scripting stunning wins over World No. 8 Kim Astrup and Anders Skaarup Rasmussen and World No. 6 Hiroyuki Endo and Yuta Watanabe.
The 29-year-old Saina, an Olympic bronze medallist, had finished runner-up in the tournament last year, losing to Chinese Taipei's Tai Tzu-Ying in the final.
World champion Sindhu, who made early exits in the last three tournaments at China, Korea and Denmark, beat Singapore's Yeo Jia Min 21-10 21-13 in 34 minutes to snap her recent run of early exits and enter the quarterfinals.
Satwik and Chirag, who had won their maiden Super 500 title at the Thailand Open in August, notched up a 21-11 25-23 win over the fifth seeded Japanese combination.
The 18-year-old Indian rallied from a game deficit to defeat Yusuke Onodera of Japan 15-21, 21-14, 21-15 in a final that lasted 63 minutes.
The 18-year-old Indian capped a superb year with a 22-20, 21-18 win over Hao in the summit clash to clinch his fifth title in the last seven tournaments.
Sindhu will play He Bing Jiao on Friday but that could well be a dead rubber as far as her chances of progressing further are concerned.
The 24-year-old Indian came into the match with a healthy 10-6 head-to-head record against Yamaguchi but she had lost to the Japanese in the last two meetings this year.
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