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PARIS: Medal contenders Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty signalled their intention with an easy straight-game victory in their opening group stage men’s doubles match after singles ace Lakshya Sen got his maiden Olympic campaign underway on a winning note here on Saturday.
The women’s doubles pair of Ashwini Ponnappa and Tanisha Crasto, however, lost to South Koreans Kim So Yeong and Kong Hee Yong 18-21 10-21 in a 44-minute Group C league match.
The third-seeded men’s doubles duo of Satwik-Chirag, the reigning Asian Games champions, notched up a 21-17 21-14 win against the French pair of Lucas Corvee and Ronan Labar in a Group C contest while Sen beat Tokyo edition semifinalist Kevin Cordon of Guatemala 21-8 22-20 in a Group C match of the men’s singles.