Hong Kong Open 2025: The world No 9 from India registered a largely comfortable 21-17, 21-15 win in just 38 minutes, to set up another tantalising title clash with China's Lian Weikeng and Wang Chang.
On Saturday, that jinx ended at the Hong Kong Open Super 500 as they came through in straight games against Chen Cheng Kuan and Lin Bing-Wei of Chinese Taipei as the world No 9 from India registered a largely comfortable 21-17, 21-15 win in just 38 minutes, to set up another tantalising title clash with China’s Lian Weikeng and Wang Chang. This will be the 10th meeting between the two former world No 1 pairs, with Liang-Wang leading 6-3 but Satwik-Chirag winning the most recent clash in Paris at the Worlds round of 16.
“Final, finally,” Chirag told BWF. “We’ve been constantly playing semifinals and we really wanted to make the final. It’s been a while so we are extremely happy.”
So far this week at the Hong Kong Coliseum, the Indians had struggled to find the right rhythm during the entirety of a match, having been taken to three games in each of their previous matches. But having taken the scenic route to get here, they cruised on the expressway in the semifinal.