Overview
- Top men’s doubles pair Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty lost 18-21, 20-22 to Indonesia’s Rahmat Hidayat and Muhammad Rian Ardianto in the round of 32, a rare early defeat at an event they won in 2022 and 2024.
- Unnati Hooda reached the round of 16 with a 11-21, 21-13, 21-16 comeback over Malaysia’s Letshanaa Karupathevan and is set to face second seed Wang Zhi Yi next.
- On Tuesday, world No. 16 Lakshya Sen exited in the first round, falling 7-21, 16-21 to Ireland’s Nhat Nguyen a week after beating him at the Denmark Open.
- Other Indian results included Ayush Shetty losing 19-21, 19-21 to Japan’s Koki Watanabe, Anupama Upadhyaya falling 15-21, 11-21 to China’s Han Yue, and Anmol Kharb going down 15-21, 9-21 to Korea’s An Se-young.
- Mixed doubles pair Rohan Kapoor and Ruthvika Shivani Gadde opened with a 21-12, 21-19 win over Oleksii Titov and Yevheniia Kantemyr to set up a meeting with French fifth seeds Thom Gicquel and Delphine Delrue.