Swiss Open 2025: Treesa-Gayatri Enter Semi-Finals; Sankar Subramanian Fairytale Run Ends in Quarters

Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand kept India's challenge alive in the Swiss Open 2025 as the women's doubles pair reached the semi-finals of the ongoing badminton tournament in Basel, Switzerland on Friday (March 21).

The fourth seeded Indian duo registered a clinical 21-18, 21-14 win over eighth seeds Pui Lam Yeung and Nga Ting Yeung of Hong Kong in the women's doubles quarter-final match that lasted 44 minutes on Court 3 at the St. Jakobshalle.

The Indian pair was not under any real pressure during the entire duration of the match, except when the Hong Kong players managed to make it 15-15 from 9-13 in the first set. Treesa-Gayatri, however, quickly built a 18-15 lead and then bagged the first set.

The second game, which proved to be decisive, was a rather easy one for the Indian pair as they claimed a 21-14 win to set up a last four meeting with top seeds Liu Shengshu and Tan Ning of China on Saturday (March 22).

However, it was end of a dream run for qualifier Sankar Subramanian, the lone singles shuttler from India still in the competition after the youngster lost in straight games in the men's singles quarter-final.

The 21-year-old, who had upset world number 2 Anders Antonsen in the second round, lost in straight games 10-21, 14-21 against unseeded French shuttler Christo Popov in 44 minutes on court 1.

Earlier, the young Indian from Tamil Nadu, a silver medallist at the 2022 World Junior Championships and currently ranked 64th in the world, had put up an impressive display of defense to defeat the three-time World Championships medallist Antonsen by a scoreline of 18-21 21-12 21-5 in a 66-minute contest.

On Thursday (March 20), several shuttlers from the country, including former world number 1 Kidambi Srikanth, made a second-round exit. Srikanth meekly surrendered to China's world No 6 Li Shi Feng by a scoreline of 15-21 11-21 in less than 40 minutes/

Also, fellow men's singles shuttler Priyanshu Rajawat lost to Toma Popov in straight 21-15 21-17 in 47 minutes, joining two women's singles shuttlers - Anupama Upadhyaya and Isharani Baruha out of the BWF Super 300 tournament in the round of 16.