Focus on Satwik-Chirag at Malaysia Open

India's doubles duo of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty will aim for a strong result, Lakshya Sen will look to build on his recent form and HS Prannoy will hope to shake off rust after a lengthy break at the season-opening Malaysia Super 1000 tournament starting here on Tuesday.

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BISHA: Saudi driver Yazeed Al Rajhi held on to his overnight lead to win the second stage of the Dakar 2025 rally on Monday, the fearsome '48-hour Chrono', while defending champion Carlos Sainz limped in 1h 30min behind.

The 43-year-old racing in his home country completed the 967km special stage, spread over two days, in 10h 56min 54sec, despite a 2min penalty for speeding.

He was followed by South African Henk Lategan at 4min 16sec with Qatari Nasser Al Attiyah, who overtook Al Rajhi briefly to hold the lead for 142k, finishing third.

"It was really, really hard. I feel like this is our tenth day on the Dakar," said Al Rajhi on his arrival at the bivouac of the rally, which began on Friday.

"The navigation was very, very difficult in some places, due to the divots and dust. You were 13min 10sec behind the leader."

South African Lategan tops the provisional standings, 4min 45sec ahead of Al Rajhi with Al Attiyah in third. Loeb is sixth, 18min 56sec off the lead.

"We looked after the car for the stage because we knew it was really, really long," said Lategan.

"If you don't look after the car, it won't look after you. It's actually a big surprise to be first because we haven't been really focusing on it. But I'm happy with that."