By Chanakya Ch
Badminton players Sathwik Sairaj Ranki Reddy and Chiraj Shetty reach higher positions in the Hong-Kong open 2025. Later this week,they reached the top 7 in player rankings (Doubles). This is the second successive time that this duo have reached finals of the Hong-King Open. In the last 13 tournaments held this duo successfully reached 16 semifinals and 2 finals. The last tournament that the duo have won is the Thailand Open Super 750 in May 2024.
The duo have defeated former nemesis Aaron Soh twice. The duo have consistently performed, winning 8 matches in the last 10 matches they’ve played at the Hong-Kong Open 2025. The opponents, Korea have nearly accumulated a massive 1 lakh 13 thousand points which is not close to any badminton player who have have played the World-Tour era
Satwik explained to the Badminton World Federation (BWF) that “Obviously, they won’t give any easy points, they will play some extraordinary strokes and their defense is obviously so good. And we were prepared for all those things and we had a plan. We maintained it till the first half, I would say like 15-8, 14-8 something.”
Even though the finals is all hyped up due to the duo’s consistent and energizing performances, the heartbreak of losing the finals of recent Olympics. In this tournament,the duo have consistently performed , “Yeah, I mean, obviously, we don’t have anyone leftie to practice against, back in India. So it’s obviously, suddenly, if you come to the tournament, it suddenly feels different. But in the last week, we played leftie-rightie, leftie-rightie until the semifinals. And again, here also, we played leftie-rightie, leftie-rightie. Almost five matches there, five matches here, I think four here. So I think, yeah, it just matters. It gets a little difficult in tournaments. Suddenly, if you come up and play leftie-rightie to adjust to the conditions…. But now, right now, we are used to it.” One problem solved, a bunch more to go.” said Sathwik.