After a strong start in the first game, Satwik and Chirag overcame an initial lead by the Malaysian pair to win 21-18. In the second game, they seized six points to break a 15-14 lead and secure victory. They will now face the world’s second-ranked pair, Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik of Malaysia—the same pair that eliminated them in the Paris 2024 Olympic quarter-finals.
Earlier, Unnati Hooda’s impressive run at the China Open 2025 concluded with a quarter-final loss to Japan’s Akane Yamaguchi. The world number four defeated the young Indian shuttler 21-16, 21-12 to advance to the semi-finals.
Playing in her first-ever BWF Super 1000 event, the 17-year-old Unnati garnered headlines with her fearless performance, becoming only the fourth Indian women’s singles shuttler to reach the quarter-finals of a BWF Super 1000 event. Unnati had secured her place in the China Open 2025 women’s singles quarter-finals on Thursday with a stunning victory over two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu.
