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In the Malaysian Open Badminton Tournament, India’s Ashwini Ponnappa and Tanisha Crasto registered a brilliant win against the world number nine pair of Mayu Matsumoto and Wakana Nagahara of Japan in the women’s doubles. The Indian pair won a three-game thriller by 21-19, 13-21, 21-15 to enter the quarter-finals.
In Men’s doubles, the second-seeded pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty also entered the quarter-final by defeating Lucas Corvee and Ronan Laba of France by 21-11, 21-18. Meanwhile, Kidambi Srikanth lost the pre-quarter to Ng Ka Long Angus of Hongkong by 13-21, 17-21.