Badminton Affiliation of India on Monday introduced a money praise of Rs 5 lakh each and every for Sankar Muthusamy and the boys’s doubles pair of Satwik Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty for his or her commendable performances on the Global Junior Championships and French Open respectively.
Former junior international #1, Sankar on Sunday turned into simplest the second one Indian male shuttler to say a silver medal on the Global Junior Championships after taking place within the summit conflict in opposition to Chinese language Taipei’s Kuo kuan Lin in Spain.
Satwik and Chirag, however, claimed the French Open Tremendous 750 crown with a instantly recreation win over Chinese language Taipei’s Lu Ching Yao and Yang Po Han within the finals at Paris. “It is a nice second of satisfaction for all people to look each our junior in addition to senior shuttlers making sure podium finishes defeating best elegance avid gamers and turning into the flag bearers of satisfaction and glory,” mentioned BAI president Himanta Biswa Sarma in a unencumber.
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En path to their name run at Paris, Satwik and Chirag had transform the primary Indian doubles pair to win a BWF Tremendous 750 match. The 2 had additionally defeated the Global Number one pair of Takuro Hoki and Yugo Kobayashi within the quarter-final.
In the meantime, 18-year-old Sankar turned into the 9th Indian shuttler to bag a medal on the premier junior championships.
“The men previously one week have performed some fearless badminton and we’re in point of fact satisfied to look India completing a few of the best international locations at such international occasions. This may also be an enormous inspiration for the more youthful generations,” mentioned BAI Secretary Sanjay Mishra.
Satwik and Chirag have had a dream run this 12 months, claiming the India Open name, adopted by way of the ancient Thomas Cup and Commonwealth Video games victory and profitable a bronze medal on the Global Championships.
