Satwik and Chirag have looked in ominous form, winning the Asian Games gold in Hangzhou, a Super 1000 crown in Indonesia, the Korea Open Super 500 and the Swiss Open super 300 last year before grabbing a a career-best ranking of World No.1, albeit for a brief time.
It's a demoralising loss for especially considering Japan did not field their full-strength team, with several top players absent.
This is Sindhu's third consecutive first round loss.
Prannoy signs off with maiden World Championships bronze medal after losing semifinal to Vitidsarn
Indian women's doubles pair of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri and Gayatri Gopichand also improved two spots to the 17th position.
The world number nine will play Hong Kong's fifth seed Angus Ng Ka Long in the last eight stage.
Olympic medallist P V Sindhu is also missing in action as she recovers from an injury.
World champion Kunlavut Vitidsarn crashed out of the India Open Super 750 badminton tournament
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty went down fighting to Olympic champions Lee Yang and Wang Chi-Lan of Chinese Taipei at the Japan Open.
This is H S Prannoy's first final of the season and second since the runner-up finish at the Swiss Open last year.
Kidambi Srikanth's opening round match ended in agony as he retired due to a knee injury after lagging 14-21, 3-11 against Japan's fifth seed Kodai Naraoka.
India's HS Prannoy showed nerves of steel, advancing to his third successive quarterfinals at the World Championships.
HS Prannoy made an early exit from the Korea Open Super 500 tournament
Seventeen-year-old Unnati, champion at the 2022 Odisha Masters and 2023 Abu Dhabi Masters, was no match for world No. 2 and top seed Pornpawee Chochuwong, going down 14-21, 11-21 in just 39 minutes.
Shetty had earlier shocked former world champion Loh Kean Yew of Singapore in straight games in his opening round.
H S Prannoy signed off with a bronze -- India's first medal in men's singles at the Asian Games in 41 years,.
H S Prannoy dished out another splendid show to progress to the quarter-finals with a thrilling win over Indonesia's Chico Aura Dwi Wardoyo.
Srikanth's Malaysia run shows he belongs at the top
'Until April 2024, we have the qualification period so until that we might push for more tournaments but the plan is to pick and choose after you qualify and then gradually peaking before the Olympics.'
P V Sindhu, H S Prannoy and Kidambi Srikanth booked their places in the quarter-finals of the Malaysia Masters Super 500 tournament.
P V Sindhu advanced to the second round after her opponent Li Yvonne Li of Germany retired after the first game.
Focus on nutrition, tailor-made training for specific opponents key to Prannoy's success.
P V Sindhu and H S Prannoy advanced to the semi-finals of the Malaysia Masters Super 500 tournament.
Star Indian shuttler HS Prannoy has pulled out of the Denmark Open Super 750 tournament due to a back injury that troubled him during his maiden bronze medal-winning run at the recently-concluded Asian Games.
The women's doubles pair of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand lost to top seeds Chen Qing Chen and Jia Yi Fan of China 18-21, 11-21.
The Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) on Thursday quashed a Sebi order that barred NDTV founders Prannoy Roy and Radhika Roy from the securities market for two years in an insider trading case. However, the appellate tribunal partly set aside an order against Vikramaditya Chandra, the group's chief executive officer during the relevant period, and remitted the matter back to Sebi to decide the issue. It further said that trades executed by Chandra during PSI-3 (price-sensitive information) are required to be reconsidered, according to the order passed by SAT.
Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand entered the quarter-finals of the Swiss Open Badminton Championship with a straight-game victory over Germany's Amelie Lehmann and Selin Hubsch.
H S Prannoy's first round match against Canada's Brian Yang was suspended midway due to a leaking roof at the Axiata Arena in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday.
India's Ayush Shetty produced a sensational straight-game victory over former world champion Loh Kean Yew of Singapore at the Orleans Masters.
Jia Min was happy to execute her plan but acknowledged that her opponent was not at her best shape.
Prannoy reached the World Championships on previous two occassions.
Sindhu pulls out of Uber Cup
Two-time Olympic medallist and fourth seed PV Sindhu made a positive start to her title defence on Wednesday, beating Jenjira Stadelmann of Switzerland 21-9, 21-16 in a lopsided opening round women's singles match.
India's star shuttler H S Prannoy doesn't want to think about Paris right now and is instead focussing on "short-term targets" like breaking into the world's top three.
India's top men's doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty withdrew from the BWF Sudirman Cup Finals due to illness.
Disappointed not to get gold but bronze means a lot: Prannoy
P V Sindhu has made early exits in as many as seven of the 12 BWF World Tour events this year.
HS Prannoy went down fighting to World No 7 Japanese Kodai Naraoka in a thrilling quarter-final at the Malaysia Open Super 750 badminton tournament.
HS Prannoy said continuous experimentation has been the key to his "special" season as he reached his second final of the year at the Australian Open Super 500 tournament in Sydney.
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