{"id":236716,"date":"2024-03-11T00:38:19","date_gmt":"2024-03-10T19:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=236716"},"modified":"2024-03-11T00:38:19","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T19:08:19","slug":"satwik-chirag-win-french-open-doubles-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/03\/11\/satwik-chirag-win-french-open-doubles-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Satwik-Chirag win French Open doubles title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Paris, 10 Mar: Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty continued their love affair with Paris, lifting the French Open badminton crown for the second time with a dominating straight game win over Chinese Taipei\u2019s Lee Jhe-Huei and Yang Po-Hsuan in the men&#8217;s doubles final here on Sunday.<br \/>\nThe world No. 1 Indian pair had finished runners-up in the French Open in 2019 before winning the title in 2022.<br \/>\nOn Sunday, the Asian Games champions outwitted Lee and Yang 21-11 21-17 in 37 minutes to regain the Super 750 tournament title and also win their first crown of the season after reaching the summit clash for the third time in 2023.<br \/>\nThe Indian duo had finished second best at Malaysia Super 1000, India Super 750 this year, while signing off as runners-up at China Masters Super 750 as well last year.<br \/>\nSatwik and Chirag proved third time lucky and their stellar show this week only reconfirmed chief coach Pullela Gopichand&#8217;s assertion that the duo will be the favourites to win Paris Olympics gold. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris, 10 Mar: Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty continued their love affair with Paris, lifting the French Open badminton crown for the second time with a dominating straight game win over Chinese Taipei\u2019s Lee Jhe-Huei and Yang Po-Hsuan in the men&#8217;s doubles final here on Sunday. The world No. 1 Indian pair had finished runners-up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-236716","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}