Indian stars badminton players – Satwiksairaj Randireddy – Chirag Shetty and Lakeshya dream – reached their relevant finals at the Hong Kong Open.
The tournament has seen several of the best performances of Indian players because they show signs of returning to form after a short slump in the last 12 months.
Satwik – Chirag, who won the bronze medal at the recently closed BWF World Championships, showed an incredible whisk to achieve the final of the tournament. After survived several battles with three games, Taiwan Chen Cheng Kuan and Lin Bing-Wei threw away in direct games to reach the collision of the summit. They will face the Chinese Liang Wei Keng and Wang Chang, who are in the world in 6th place, two places above them.
On the other hand, Lakeshya dream takes over the world 2 Li Shi Feng, which is in the 4th place in the world. Lakeshya played a Chinese star in her career and holds a close lead of 7-6.
Hong Kong Open: Details of Living current
Hong Kong is open to Jiocinema and Disney+ Hotstar.
Hong Kong Open: The timing of the matches
Satwik – Chirag plays his match at 12:20
The Lakeshya Dream match is expected to start after 14:50
Satwik -cichirag, Lakeshy’s form
The first finals of the year secured their first final of the year. The Asian Gold Medalist duo defeated Taiwan Chen Cheng Kuan and Lin Bing-Wei in direct games, won 21-17, 21-15 in just 38 minutes.
Previously, they played matches with three games at the tournament.
Lakeshya dream started his campaign with a hard fought 22-20, 16-21, 21-15 victories over Taiwanese Wang Tzu-Wei. Then he walked past the countrymen HS prannoy 15-21, 21-18, 21-10 in an exciting round of 16 collision.
In the quarterfinals he defeated 24-year-old Ayush Shetty 21-16, 17-21, 21-13 to book his place in the semifinals. In the semifinals, Chou Tien Chen, who defeated in a hard match with straight games 23-21, 22-20.
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Published:
Kingshuk Kusari
Published on:
September 14, 2025
