{"id":459359,"date":"2023-03-26T17:26:31","date_gmt":"2023-03-26T11:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=459359"},"modified":"2023-03-26T17:26:36","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T11:56:36","slug":"chirag-shetty-swiss-open-badminton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/sports-news\/chirag-shetty-swiss-open-badminton\/","title":{"rendered":"Chirag Shetty-Satwiksairaj Rankireddy create history, become first Indian pair to win Swiss Open badminton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Badminton lovers it&#8217;s time to celebrate! Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy on Sunday won their first title of 2023 at the Swiss Open 2023 happening in Basel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By beating Ren Xiang Yu and Tang Qiang of China in the finals, the duo created history and became the first Indian pair ever to win at the Swiss Open badminton. Shetty and Rankireddy won against the World No. 21 21-19, 24-22 in 54 minutes to get off the mark in the new season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"qam\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ianuragthakur?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ianuragthakur<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bwfmedia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@bwfmedia<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EuropeBEC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@EuropeBEC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Media_SAI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Media_SAI<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IndiaSports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@IndiaSports<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WeAreTeamIndia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WeAreTeamIndia<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kheloindia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@kheloindia<\/a><\/p>&mdash; BAI Media (@BAI_Media) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BAI_Media\/status\/1639941519670124545?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 26, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The title is Shetty and Rankireddy&#8217;s first one on the tour since their French Open Super 750 triumph on October 2022. The pair had earlier won 3 titles in 2022 including the gold medal at the Commonwealth Games and also finished with a bronze medal at the World Championships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In another huge victory for India, Boxers Nitu Ghanghas\u00a0and Saweety Boora scripted history by becoming the sixth and seventh Indian boxers to win the Women\u2019s World Boxing Championship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated the duo for their remarkable victory. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ghanghas won against Mongolia\u2019s Lutsaikhan Altansetseg in the 48 kg final and registered a dominating 5-0 win in the 81 kg category. Boora won the gold medal via a split verdict and registered a 4-3 win against China\u2019s Wang Lina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shetty and Rankireddy won against the World No. 21 21-19, 24-22 in 54 minutes to get off the mark in the new season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":459370,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Chirag Shetty-Satwiksairaj Rankireddy create history, become first Indian pair to win Swiss Open badminton\n\n#ChiragShetty #SatwiksairajRankireddy\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6,125714],"tags":[156714,156715,156716],"yst_prominent_words":[60929,82623,36148,87525,26052,29901,15164,3887,17922,9115,80567,34354,25469,13050,4533,35308,24283,20829],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2023\/03\/26172451\/images-59-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459359"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=459359"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=459359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->