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Star Indian brace of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty saved 4 title points earlier going down warring against Indonesia's Leo Rolly Carnando and Daniel Marthin successful a gripping men's doubles last to decorativeness runners-up astatine the Thailand Open Super 500 tourney successful Bangkok connected Sunday (May 17, 2026).
World No. 4 Satwik and Chirag, champions successful 2019 and 2024, looked off-colour successful the opening crippled but showed large intelligence fortitude nether unit successful the 2nd to astir instrumentality the lucifer to the decider earlier losing 12-21 23-25 successful a 53-minute acme clash.
It was different creditable decorativeness for Satwik and Chirag, who person established themselves arsenic India's astir accordant doubles brace successful caller years. For the Indian duo, who had missed immoderate tournaments owed to Satwik's enarthrosis injury, it was a 3rd last quality astatine the $475,000 lawsuit and their archetypal of the season.
They had besides finished runners-up astatine the China Masters and Hong Kong Open past year.
While the Indians returned to the podium erstwhile again, it proved to beryllium a imagination decorativeness for Carnando and Marthin, who reunited for this tourney aft 2 years pursuing the latter's betterment from a semipermanent genu wounded that required surgery.
It was besides the Indonesians' archetypal triumph implicit Satwik and Chirag, who had entered the contention with a 4-0 head-to-head grounds against them, with 3 of those victories coming successful three-game matches.
The contention turned into a high-intensity matter marked by speedy exchanges astatine the nett and fierce front-court battles.
Chirag appeared to conflict with his service aboriginal connected arsenic the Indians slipped to a 1-4 deficit, though they stayed wrong touching region astatine 7-9.
Leo and Daniel past opened up a four-point cushion aft Satwik failed to power 1 of Daniel's almighty smashes.
The Indonesians looked successful implicit power arsenic they extended the pb to 13-8 earlier a mates of unforced errors helped the Indians constrictive the gap.
However, a crisp smash divided the Indian pair, and Chirag past pushed 1 wide to manus the Indonesians a five-point vantage again.
The Indians won 2 palmy video referrals, but they were erratic and buckled nether changeless pressure. Chirag recovered the nett erstwhile much arsenic they trailed 12-17.
Satwik and Chirag struggled successful the work exchanges and were undone by a drawstring of unforced errors arsenic the Indonesians earned 8 crippled points and sealed the opener erstwhile Satwik pushed a instrumentality into the net.
After the alteration of sides, Marthin continued to dismantle the Indian defence with his brutal smashes arsenic the Indonesians led 5-3.
A flick service helped the Indians claw backmost astatine 5-5 and spell connected a tally of points arsenic they took a 7-5 pb for the archetypal clip successful the lucifer with a scything instrumentality astatine the nett from Chirag.
The Indonesians drew level astatine 9-9 earlier a smash from Chirag and a wide instrumentality from their opponents handed the Indians a two-point pb astatine the interval.
On resumption, it became a contention of who blinks archetypal arsenic a flick service from Chirag was punished with a thunderous smash arsenic the Indonesians again made it 11-11 earlier moving up aft Satwik recovered the nett aft a rapid-fire cross-court exchange.
There was small to abstracted the 2 pairs thereafter arsenic the pb kept changing hands successful tense work situations, with the scores locked astatine 14-14 to 19-19.
The Indonesians earned their archetypal title constituent with Marthin erstwhile again targeting Chirag with a fierce push. The Indians saved it aft forcing an mistake from Marthin to marque it 20-20. Marthin past secured different title point, lone for Chirag to erase it with a crisp nett kill.
A work mistake from Satwik handed the Indonesians a 3rd title point, but they failed to person aft sending the shuttle long. Another brutal attacking instrumentality from Marthin astatine the beforehand tribunal earned Indonesia a 4th title point, but the Indians survived yet again.
Marthin produced different decisive termination changeable to bring up a 5th title point, and this clip the Indonesians sealed the lucifer erstwhile the Indians recovered the net.
