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Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy took home their first BWF Super 750 championship on Sunday by winning the men's doubles event at the French Open 2022.

The Indian pair defeated Chinese Taipei's Lu Ching Yao and Yang Po Han 21-13, 21-19 in the final after eliminating the top seeds from Japan, Takuro Hoki and Yugo Kobayashi, in the quarterfinals.

This was Shetty and Ranikireddy’s third victory on the BWF World Tour. They earlier won the Thailand Open 2019 and the India Open 2022.

This was the first time an Indian men's doubles team won the French Open badminton championship since Partho Ganguli and Vikram Singh's victory in 1983.

The seventh-seeded team in the competition, Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, who are ranked as the No. 8 men's doubles team in the world, got off to a fast start by winning the first five points of the match.

The Indian pair easily controlled the first game and won it because to their aggressive style of badminton.

In the second game, the Shetty-Reddy duo, who were facing Chinese Taipei opponents for the first time, carried the momentum and entered halftime with a comfortable six-point lead.

However, Lu Ching Yao and Yang Po Han shown bravery and fought their way back into the game, levelling the score at 14 all.

The match's momentum obviously changed after the comeback, as Lu Ching Yao and Yang Po Han battled valiantly to grab a 19-17 lead.

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The in-form Indian couple, who won the Commonwealth Games championship earlier this year in Birmingham, shown exceptional maturity by controlling their nerves to win the game, match, and title.