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Leo Rolly Carnando: Asian Games gold medalists pair Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty stormed into the men’s doubles semifinal with a straight-game win over Indonesia’s Leo Rolly Carnando and Daniel Marthin at the China Masters Super 750 badminton tournament here on Friday.

The top-seeded Indian pair thrashed out the World no. 13 Indonesian pair with a scoreline of 21-16, 21-14 in 46 minutes.

Satwik and Chirag will now face the winner of the other quarterfinal match between two Chinese pairs - He Ji Ting and Ren Xiang Yu and eighth seeds Liu Yu Chen and Ou Xuan Yi.