India`s leading doubles shuttler Chirag Shetty insists that short-term goals for himself and partner Satwiksairaj Rankireddy is the way ahead for them after they failed to qualify for the knockout stage at the Tokyo Olympics.

Shetty and Rankireddy had won two of their three group matches, yet failed to qualify for the knockout stage after games won by each pair were considered to decide the two qualifiers following a three-way tie. In the opening match, the Indian pair beat third seeds and eventual gold medallists Lee Yang and Wang Chi-Lin of Chinese Taipei 21-16, 16-21, 27-25. In the second match, they lost 13-21, 12-21 to the top-seeded Indonesian pair of Marcus Fernaldi Gideon and Kevin Sanjaya Sukamkuljo before registering 21-17, 21-19 win over Great Britain`s Ben Lane and Sean Vendy in their last group match.