Now in their pre-quarters match-up, the 2022 French Open champions Satwiksairaj and Chirag will be locking horns with another Malaysian pair, Man Wei Chong and Tee Kai Wun.
The 21-year-old lost the opening set of the game against the Lakshya but fought back courageously to take the second and third sets to progress with a 16-21, 21-16, 21-13 scoreline in a match that lasted for 75 minutes.
Asian Games gold medallists Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty and bronze medallist HS Prannoy will aim to boost their position in the world ranking ahead of the Paris Olympics while the likes of former world number one Kidambi Srikanth, 2022 Commonwealth Games gold medallist Lakshya
The seventh-seeded Crasto-Ponnappa beat compatriots Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand to make it to the quarters. In the semifinals, they had a much tougher challenge in the form of Japanese top seeds Yuki Fukushima and Sayaka Hirota.
The shuttler had earlier won the Orleans Masters title this year and shown his promise. He led the game one from the start and won it easily, but was made to work hard in the second game.
Hooda defeated Aakarshi Kashyap by 15-21, 21-19, 21-18 in a hard-fought round of 32 match on Wednesday and could be facing former world champion Nozomi Okuhara of Japan on Thursday, as per Olympics.com.
India's star shuttles Lakshya Sen, Kidambi Srikanth and Priyanshu Rajawat suffered defeats in the men's singles round of 32 at the China Masters 2023 in Shenzhen on Wednesday.
Indian shuttler HS Prannoy conceded a defeat in the second round of the Kumamoto Masters Japan 2023 on Thursday against Chinese Taipei's Chou Tien Chen.