Commonwealth Games 2022: G Sathiyan and Achanta Sharath Kamal missed out on a possibility to raised their effort from Gold Coast as they misplaced to defending champions England’s Liam Pitchford and Paul Drinkhall within the males’s doubles closing.
Sharath and Sathiyan win 2nd successive desk tennis males’s doubles Silver at CWG (AP Photo)
HIGHLIGHTSSharath Kamal and G Sathiyan received silver in males’s doubles desk tennisThe Indian pair misplaced to England’s Pitchford and DrinkhallIt is Sharath’s third medal within the males’s doubles class at CWG
in what was a repeat of the Gold Coast closing, India’s star paddlers Achanta Sharath Kamal and Gnanasekaran Sathiyan misplaced the lads’s doubles desk tennis closing on the Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham on Sunday, August 7.
Achanta Sharath Kamal and G Sathiyan got here up with a valiant combat in opposition to England’s Liam Pitchford and Paul Drinkhall in a 5-game males’s doubles tennis desk closing. The defending champions efficiently retained the crown with an 11-8, 8-11, 3-11, 11-7, 11-4 win over the Indian pair, who additionally received silver in Commonwealth Games 2018 in Gold Coast.
Like Birmingham, the Gold Coast closing additionally went down the wire and Sharath Kamal and G Sathiyan misplaced after main 2-0.
On Sunday, Sharath and Sathiyan fought again from behind as they took the fourth sport 11-7. The two Indians made a stable begin to the decider however from 4-4, they misplaced 7 successive factors to lose the Gold medal match.
SHARATH ADDS TO HIS TALLY
Notably, that is Sharath Kamal’s third medal in males’s doubles and eleventh total in desk tennis on the Commonwealth Games. The two performed a vital position in serving to India retain the lads’s workforce Gold earlier this week on the Games.
Sharath had received the lads’s doubles Gold together with Subajit Saha in New Delhi in 2010.
Sharath Kamal will probably be in competition for Gold within the combined doubles occasion when he pairs up with nationwide champion Sreeja Akula, who misplaced the bronze medal match earlier within the day.
Sathiyan and Sharath can even be in motion of their respective males’s singles matches.
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