The second seeds, who finished runners-up in the Malaysia Open Super 1000 last week, were quick off the blocks and pocketed the opening game rather easily
Since 2022, the duo has won five BWF World Tour titles, historic Thomas Cup, medals at World Championships, Asian Championships, Asian Games and Commonwealth Games.
They played their fourth final of the Badminton World Federation (BWF) World Tour this year, having won other three of them - Swiss Open 2023, Indonesia Open 2023 and Korea Open 2023 - earlier this year.
Following their gold medal win at the men's doubles competition at the recently concluded Asian Games in Hangzhou, 'Sat-Chi', as the duo is known to fans, made a jump of two spots to achieve the top spot.
MK Stalin took to his official X account and praised the Indian athletes from Tamil Nadu saying that their exceptional contribution has made the state beam with pride on this international stage.
India's star duo Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy reached to the quarterfinal of the men's doubles of badminton in the ongoing Asian Games on Wednesday