India’s men’s doubles star Chirag Shetty, one-half of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, will be honored with a hall named after him at the Goregaon Sports Club in Mumbai.
The Mumbai shuttler trains at the academy under his coach Uday Pawar.
Shetty was a part of the men’s doubles pair which won the 2022 Commonwealth Games gold medal and mixed team silver in Birmingham. He also won the men’s doubles bronze at the 2022 World Championships.
Satwik and Chirag were knocked out in the Paris 2024 quarterfinals while they began their 2025 season with semi-final finishes at the Malaysia Open and India Open.
“The Goregaon Sports Club is honored to invite you to the prestigious naming ceremony of our badminton facility, which will be named as the “Chirag Shetty Badminton Hall” in recognition of your outstanding contributions to Indian badminton, scheduled on January 26, 2025 from 9am at GSC Badminton Hall,” an invitation letter for the naming ceremony read.
His coach Uday Pawar, meanwhile, told the TOI, “Chirag started playing the game of badminton in the Goregaon Sports Club and it is indeed a proud of moment for him, his family and me as his coach that the GSC badminton courts are being after him. I am sure that it will inspire many young badminton players to follow in Chirag’s footsteps”.
Pawar clinched the bronze in 1982 Asian Games men’s team event and followed it up with another third podium finish at the 1986 continental games.
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