The Indian tennis duo Rohan Bopanna and Rutuja Bhosale bagged the
gold medal in the tennis mixed doubles at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou on
Saturday.
The Rohan-Rutuja duo struggled in the initial set of the match and
lost the first set against Chinese Taipei’s En-shuo Liang and Tsung-hao Huang
by 6-2. The Indian pair made a stellar comeback and later dominated the game to
beat their opponents in straight two sets by 3-6, and 4-10.
The final tennis match went on for almost over one hour but Bharat made
no mistake to clinch the gold medal.
In the semi-final match of the mixed doubles final event, 43 years old
Rohan Bopanna and Rutuja Bhosale defeated Chinese Taipei’s Yu-hsiou Hsu and
Hao-Ching Chang to reach the final.
The Indian duo defeated Chinese Taipei by 6-1, 3-6, 10-4 and
assured a medal for Bharat at the Asian Games 2023 on Friday.
The Bopanna-Bhosale duo won the first set 6-1 against Chinese
Taipei’s Yu-hsiou Hsu and Hao-ching Chang.
However, in the semi-final match, the Indian pair lost control in
the second set but they prevailed in the tiebreaker 10-4 to storm into the
final match assuring themselves a medal.
The tennis events started on September 24 and concluded on Saturday
with Bopanna-Bhosale winning the gold in the mixed doubles final.
The Indian contingent stands at fourth place in the 19th Asian
Games medals table with a total of 34 medals. Which includes nine gold, 13
silver, and 13 bronze medals.
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