Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand reached the quarterfinals of the Denmark Open in Odense on Friday, 16 October 2026, with a straight-games win over the fifth seeds, according to Zee News, Sentinel Assam and Revsportz. They beat Indonesia’s Rachel Allessya Rose and Febi Setianingrum 21-16, 21-17 in 45 minutes, according to Zee News.
The scoreline can be read closely. The Indian pair won the first game by five points and the second by four, a margin that adds up to 9 points across the match, and they conceded 33 points in total against the 42 they scored, counts by IndiaX24 from the scores. A 45-minute match for two games is brisk, which suggests that there were few long rallies or interruptions, an inference by IndiaX24 that the reports do not make.
The opponents were seeded fifth in the tournament, according to the reports, so the result is a win over a higher-ranked pair. Seeds are based on world rankings, which is general background, and the reports reviewed do not give the current rankings of either pair or their previous record against each other.
The next match is a harder one. In the quarterfinals the Indians will play Pearly Tan and Thinaah Muralitharan of Malaysia, the second seeds, according to Zee News. The Malaysian pair are among the leading women’s doubles teams in the world, which is general background, and IndiaX24 has not found their record against Treesa and Gayatri in the sources reviewed.
The pair were India’s only women’s doubles entry to survive to this stage, as far as the reports say. Ashmita Chaliha, a singles player, lost 18-21, 10-21 to the former world champion Akane Yamaguchi of Japan in the round of 16, according to Zee News, and Kidambi Srikanth also lost his round-of-16 match, as IndiaX24 reports separately.
The tournament has been a difficult one for India overall. PV Sindhu, Lakshya Sen, Ayush Shetty and the men’s doubles pair Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty went out earlier in the week, according to Zee News and the Sportscape Magazine headline, which describes a disappointing campaign for India. IndiaX24 reports on those exits in another article.
Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand are a regular pairing who have been among India’s best women’s doubles players in recent seasons, which is general background, and the reports reviewed do not describe their ranking or recent results. Both are in the Indian team, and Gayatri is the daughter of the former national coach Pullela Gopichand, according to general background that is not in these reports.
The Denmark Open is a Super 750 event, according to an ESPN link in the search results, which is the second-highest category on the world tour. The prize money and ranking points on offer are not stated in the reports reviewed.
Winning in straight games matters in a long tournament week. A 45-minute match is far less tiring than a three-game contest of more than an hour, such as the 66 minutes that Kidambi Srikanth spent on court earlier in the day, as IndiaX24 reports, and the shorter match leaves the pair fresher for the quarterfinal, which is a general observation and not a finding of the reports.
The reports reviewed do not give the time of the quarterfinal, and IndiaX24 does not state one. It will report the result.
Image: A badminton doubles match (file photo; a stand-in image). Photo by Antony Stanley from Gloucester, UK, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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