In Badminton, Indian men's star doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty continued their positive run as they entered the semi-finals of the China Open upsetting World No. 3 pair of Li Jun Hui and Liu Yu Chen.

They defeated the former world champions 21-19, 21-15 in the quarter-final clash which lasted for 43 minutes.

The World No. 9 Indian pair will now face top-ranked Indonesian pair of Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo and Marcus Fernaldi Gideon.