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Former satellite No. 1 brace Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty fought backmost from a crippled down to clinch their maiden Singapore Open title, defeating Indonesia's Fajar Alfian and Muhammad Shohibul Fikri successful the men's doubles last of the BWF Super 750 tournament, successful Singapore connected Sunday (May 31, 2026).
The Asian Games and Commonwealth Games champions produced a gritty comeback to unafraid their archetypal rubric successful 2 years and their ninth vocation World Tour crown, too claiming a 3rd Super 750 rubric with a tense 18-21, 21-17, 21-16 triumph successful 1 hr 13 minutes.
The triumph was peculiarly important for the satellite No. 4 Indian duo, who became the archetypal Indians to triumph the doubles rubric astatine the Singapore Open.
Satwik and Chirag had past lifted a trophy astatine the Thailand Open successful 2024. Since then, they had reached 4 finals but finished runners-up connected each juncture earlier yet breaking the drought successful Singapore.
The Indians had entered the last trailing 1-2 successful their head-to-head grounds against the Indonesian pair, with their astir caller decision coming successful the Malaysia Open quarterfinals successful January.
After dropping a closely-fought opening game, Satwik and Chirag raised their strength and dominated the longer rallies to crook the contention astir against the satellite No. 3 Indonesians.
The triumph capped an awesome week for the Indian pair, who had stunned reigning satellite champions and apical seeds Kim Won Ho and Seo Seung Jae of South Korea successful the semifinals.
As the winning constituent was sealed, Satwik and Chirag laic level connected the tribunal successful celebration.
Satwik followed it up with a baby-themed celebration, portion an ecstatic Chirag fto retired a large roar earlier leaping onto his partner.
The duo aboriginal danced connected tribunal arsenic they savoured a long-awaited instrumentality to the apical measurement connected the podium.
