All posts tagged: Satwik-Chirag vs Liang-Wang semifinal score Hangzhou 2025

Satwik-Chirag left to rue errors and fatigue as BWF World Tour Finals campaign ends with semifinal defeat | Badminton News

Satwik-Chirag left to rue errors and fatigue as BWF World Tour Finals campaign ends with semifinal defeat | Badminton News

An absolutely blistering start to win the opening game. A tight second game that could have potentially gone either way. And finally, a decisive third game that flipped the script of the first. It was the same story between Satwiksairaj Rankireddy-Chirag Shetty and Liang Weikeng and Wang Chang for the second time in four days at the BWF World Tour Finals in Hangzhou. Only this time, in the semifinals on Saturday, Satwik-Chirag were at the receiving end of the defeat as the Paris Olympic silver medallists came back from behind to win 10-21, 21-17, 21-13 in 63 minutes. For the record, it was 12-21, 22-20, 21-14 in 60 minutes in favour of the Indians in the opening round clash in the Group of Death. BWF’s logic of having a fresh draw before knockouts, where players or pairs from the same group can still face each other in the semifinals, needs a serious rethink. Especially in the case of men’s doubles this time, where one group was significantly more difficult than the other, meaning there is …