Anupama upadhyay

BWF World Tour Super: The top Indian men's doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty stormed into the semifinals of the China Masters 2024 with an upset victory over second-seeds Kim Astrup and Anders Skaarup Rasmussen of Denmark here on Friday.

India however, continued to have a mixed day at this BWF World Tour Super 750 event as the campaign in men's singles came to an end with Lakshya Sen crashing out to third seed Anders Antonsen of Denmark in straight games in the quarterfinals.

After Rankireddy and Shetty, seeded sixth in the event, defeated Astrup and Rasmussen 21-16 21-19 in a 47-minute quarterfinal clash, Sen took to the same court at the Shenzhen Gymnasium and went down to third seed Antonsen 18-21, 15-21 in 53 minutes on Court 2.