Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand secured a World Championships medal by defeating China's Jia Yi Fan and Zhang Shu Xian in the quarterfinals. The Indian pair's 16-21, 21-15, 21-13 victory marks India's first women's doubles medal at the event since 2011.
Indian badminton pairs Satwiksairaj Rankireddy/Chirag Shetty and Treesa Jolly/Gayatri Gopichand have reached the quarter-finals of the BWF World Championships. PV Sindhu and Ayush Shetty were eliminated in the previous round.
PV Sindhu's undefeated World Championships record against Chinese players ended with a 11-21, 21-15, 17-21 defeat to Wang Zhi Yi in New Delhi. Meanwhile, Indian doubles pairs Jolly-Gopichand and Satwik-Chirag advanced to the quarterfinals.
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty overcame a tight 82-minute match against Malaysia's Junaidi Arif and Yap Roy King to reach the BWF World Championships quarterfinals.
Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand advanced to the BWF World Championships quarterfinals after defeating Rin Iwanaga and Kie Nakanishi in New Delhi.
Unseeded Indian shuttlers Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand defeated Japan's Rin Iwanaga and Kie Nakanishi 21-16, 21-12 in New Delhi, moving one win away from a World Championships medal.
