India's top men's doubles pair Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty assured a men's doubles medal at the Badminton Asia Championships after 52 years after beating Indonesian duo Mohammad Ahsan and Hendra Setiawan in the quarterfinals.
The Indian pair won by 21-11 21-12. Rankireddy and Shetty will now face Chinese Taipei's Lee Yang and Wang Chi-lin in the semifinals. Earlier, two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu squandered a game lead to go down against second seed An Se Young of Korea in the women's singles quarterfinals.
The other Indian hope, eighth seed HS Prannoy, too bowed out in the men's singles quarterfinals after conceding his match midway against Kanta Tsuneyama of Japan.