Shetty won Thailand Open
men's doubles
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag
Shetty won the Thailand Open 2024
badminton men's doubles title with
a win over People's Republic of
China's Chen Bo Yang and Liu Yi in
the final at the Nimibutra Stadium
in Bangkok on 19 May 2024.
The world number three Indian
badminton pair defeated their
number 29 opponent with the score
of 21-15, 21-15 in 36 minutes.
Earlier, the Indian pair entered the
final of the tournament by
defeating Lu Ming-Che and Tang
Kai-Wei of Chinese Taipei 21-11, 21-
12.
It was the 2nd Thailand Open title
of the 2024 badminton season for
Chirag and Satwik. Before winning
the French Open in March, Chirag
and Satwik had lost in the finals of
Malaysia Open and India Open
earlier this year.
The Indian pair's first Super 500
title on the BWF World Tour came
at the Thailand Open in 2019. The
2024 Thailand Open final was the
Indian pair's fifth appearance at
the BWF Super 500 summit clash
and they have emerged victorious
in all of them.
With 9200 ranking points from the
tournament, Indian badminton
players are expected to regain the
world No. 1 rank next week.
Overall, this was Satwik and
Chirag's eighth title on the BWF
World Tour.
The Indian pair had won the Swiss
Open, Indonesia Open and Korea
Open last year. Thailand Open 2024
starts on 14 May and ends on 19
May.
Other winner
Men's singles-26-year-old
Malaysian badminton star Lee Zi
Zia won her second Thailand Open
title by defeating Hong Kong
China's Long Angus 21-11, 21-10 in a
unilateral men's singles final, won
in 2022.
Women's Solo - Supunida
Katethong won her first single
woman Thailand Open title by
defeating Han You, the top seed of
the People's Republic of China,
performing the best badminton of
her career.
Women's doubles-Jongkolfan
Kitharakul and Ravinda Prajongzai
won the Thai women's doubles title
by defeating Indonesia's Fabriyana
Dwipuji Kusuma and Amalia
Kahaya Para 21-14 21-14 to win the
women's doubles final.
Nikhat Zarin - Gold in 52 kg
category in Allied Cup
The current world champions
Nikhat Zarin and Minakshi won the
gold medal in the Alda Cup 2024 in
Astana, Kazakhstan, while the
Indian team finished the campaign
with 12 medals.
The Indian boxers won the records
of five medals in their previous
edition by winning two silver and
eight bronze medals.
Nikhat (52 kg), one of the strong
possibilities of India's medal at the
Paris Olympics, continued his
dominance in the current
prestigious tournament and
defeated Kazakhstan's Zazira
Urkabeva with a score of 5-0 to add
another gold medal to his
prestigious medal table by scoring
5-0. .
Minakshi defeated Uzbekistan's
Rahmonova Saidahon 4–1 in the
women's 48 kg final to give India
the first gold medal of the
competition.
