Rutuja Bhosale raised her recreation in nick of time whereas seasoned Rohan Bopanna stayed strong along with his massive serves as India got here again from a set right down to win the tennis combined doubles gold on the Asian Games, right here Saturday.
The second-seeded Indian group rallied to win the title conflict 2-6 6-3 10-4 towards Chinese Taipei’s combo of Tsung-hao Huang and En-shuo Liang.
The victory ensured that India will return with no less than one tennis gold from the Asian Games in an in any other case disappointing marketing campaign during which the nation managed to win solely two medals — the opposite being men’s doubles silver.
The two-medal present is India’s worst on the Asian Games because the flip of the century.
In 2002, India had returned with 4 medals from Busan and within the following editions the nation received 4 (2006, Doha), 5 (2010, Guangzhou), 5 (2014, Incheon) and three (2018, Indonesia) medals.
The males’s doubles group of Saketh Myneni and Ramkumar Ramanathan had received a silver on Friday however different gamers pale at completely different phases of the match.
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 group occasions with the largest disappointment being the early exit of medal favourites Bopanna and Yuki Bhambri within the males’s doubles.