India’s Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand advanced to the women’s doubles semi-finals at the 2025 Swiss Open Super 300 in Basel, Switzerland on Friday.
Treesa-Gayatri, ranked ninth in the world, got the better of Hong Kong’s Yeung Nga Ting and Yeung Pui Lann 21-18, 21-14 in straight games in the quarter-finals.
The Indians enjoyed a good start to the match, racing away to a sizeable lead early on in the opening game. But there was a lapse in concentration in between as the Yeung sisters mounted a comeback.
Treesa-Gayatri held their nerves to pocket the opening game 21-18.
There were no such qualms; however, in the second game, Treesa and Gayatri dictated the pace. They had an 11-8 lead at the mid-game interval before opening up a massive nine-match points.
Yeung Nga Ting and Yeung Pui Lann did try to force their way back into the contest, but the Indians won the second game 21-14 to wrap up the match in 44 minutes.
Later in the day, India’s Sankar Muthusamy Subramanian faced a straight-game (10-21, 14-21) defeat France’s Christo Popov in the men’s singles quarter-finals.
Sankar caught the limelight after he stunned world No 2 Anders Antonsen in the Round of 16 on Thursday.
