India’s Rohan Bopanna and Rutuja Sampatrao Bhosale have a good time after defeating Chinese language Taipei’s Liang En-shuo and Tsung-Hao Huang within the Blended Doubles Closing tennis match on the 19th Asian Video games, in Hangzhou, China, Saturday, September 30, 2023.
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Rutuja Bhosale raised her recreation in nick of time whereas seasoned Rohan Bopanna stayed stable along with his massive serves as India got here again from a set right down to win the tennis blended doubles gold on the Asian Video games, right here Saturday.
The second-seeded Indian crew rallied to win the title conflict 2-6 6-3 10-Four in opposition to Chinese language Taipei’s combo of Tsung-hao Huang and En-shuo Liang.
The victory ensured that India will return with not less than one tennis gold from the Asian Video games in an in any other case disappointing marketing campaign during which the nation managed to win solely two medals — the opposite being males’s doubles silver.
The 2-medal present is India’s worst on the Asian Video games for the reason that flip of the century.
In 2002, India had returned with 4 medals from Busan and within the following editions the nation gained 4 (2006, Doha), 5 (2010, Guangzhou), 5 (2014, Incheon) and three (2018, Indonesia) medals.
The boys’s doubles crew of Saketh Myneni and Ramkumar Ramanathan had gained a silver on Friday however different gamers pale at totally different phases of the event.
No singles participant from the nation might make it to the medal spherical with Sumit Nagal and Ankita Raina exiting early.
The Indian tennis contingent additionally struggled in different crew occasions with the largest disappointment being the early exit of medal favourites Bopanna and Yuki Bhambri within the males’s doubles.