The first game was a well-fought affair, which Malaysia won 23-21, and after that, there was no looking back for them, as they won the second game 21-12

However, the men’s duo of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty lost 27-25, 21-23, 19-21 to Japan’s Hiroki Midorikawa and Kyohei Yamashita. Kidambi Srikanth and H S Prannoy also exited, losing to France’s Christo Popov, and Singapore’s Loh Kean Yew respectively