In the BWF World Championships, Indian women’s doubles pair Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand secured a straight win over Japan’s seventh seeds Rin Iwanaga and Kie Nakanishi.
The Indian pair registered a win by 21-16, 21-12 against the Japanese duo to seal a place in the quarter-finals of the ongoing marquee event.
Treesa and Gayatri, who were awarded the Arjuna Award for 2025, had made it to the All England Open semi-finals in back-to-back years in 2022 and 2023. They also won a Commonwealth Games bronze in 2022 and broke into the top 10 at the start of last year.
They will now lock horns with China’s Jia Yifan and Zhang Shuxian in the quarter-finals of the BWF World Championships. The match is scheduled to be played on Friday at 1.30 PM.