Odense (Denmark), Oct 17 (PTI) Star Indian men’s doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty advanced to the semifinals, while Lakshya Sen lost his men’s singles quarterfinal match in straight games at the Denmark Open Super 750 badminton tournament here on Friday.

The Indian doubles pair, winners of the BWF World Championships bronze medal earlier this year, beat the unseeded Indonesian duo of Muhammad Rian Ardianto and Rahmat Hidayat 21-15, 18-21, 21-16 in a hard-fought quarterfinal that lasted 65 minutes.

The Indian duo will next play the winner of another quarterfinal between eight seeds Chen Bo Yang and Yi Liu of China and Japan’s Takuro Hoki and Yugo Kobayashi. The Satwik-Chirag combination had defeated Scotland’s Christopher Grimley and Matthew Grimley, and Chinese T

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