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Top seeds Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty survived a stiff situation earlier defeating Indonesia's Muh Putra Erwiansyah and Bagas Maulana successful a thrilling three-game opener of the men's doubles contention astatine the Thailand Open Super 500 tourney present connected Tuesday (May 12, 2026).
The satellite No. 4 Indian brace registered a 19-21, 23-21, 21-10 triumph implicit Muh and Bagas successful 64 minutes. The Indian brace recovered themselves trailing 11-16 successful the 2nd crippled earlier reeling disconnected 7 consecutive points to crook the tide. Muh and Bagas fought backmost to marque it 18-18, but Satwik and Chirag held their nervus to level the contest.
The 2nd crippled remained intimately fought, with some pairs engaged successful agelong rallies earlier the Indians managed to instrumentality a slender three-point pb astatine the interval. The Indonesian pair, however, dominated the exchanges aft the interruption and moved up 17-14. Despite a spirited fightback from the Indians, the lucifer yet went into a decider.
In the 3rd game, Satwik and Chirag stamped their authority, racing to an 11-5 pb astatine the interruption earlier cruising done the remainder of the contest.
The Indian brace volition look Malaysia's Bryan Jeremy Goonting and Muhammad Haikal next.
Earlier, Malaysia's Olympic bronze medallist Lee Zii Jia, who returned to enactment aft recovering from a close ankle wounded and backmost issues, defeated India's Manav Choudhary 21-19, 21-18 successful a qualifying match.
In mixed doubles qualification, India's M. Jaglan and L. Jaglan mislaid 11-21, 18-21 to Chinese Taipei's Tsai Fu Cheng and Sung Yu Hsuan, portion successful women's singles qualification, Thailand's Y Ketklieng bushed India's A Shahapurkar 21-5, 21-7.
