Asian Games: Bronze for Sania-Prarthana in tennis doubles

The Indian pair of Sania Mirza and Prarthana Thombare settled for a bronze after losing their women's doubles semi-final to Chinese Taipei's Chin Wei Chan and Su Wei Hsiehin in the Asian Games, in Incheon on Sunday.

The fifth seeded Indian combo put up a brave fight before going down 6-7, (1-7), 6-2, 10-4 to the Chinese Taipei pair, seeded second, at the Yeorumul Tennis Courts.

Sania and Prarthana toiled hard for an hour and 35 minutes but at the end failed to make it to the final.

Both the pairs fought hard in the opening frame to take the set to a tiebreaker. The Taiwanese duo finally managed to win the set after nearly an hour's play.

The Indians, however, came back strongly in the second set and managed to prevail over their higher ranked opponents in just 32 minutes.

But the deciding set turned out to be a cake-walk for the Taiwanese as they took barely 10 minutes to seal the set 10-4 and take home the match.

Earlier, Yuki Bhambri had clinched India's lone singles medal in tennis after settling for a bronze in the men's event following a 6-3, 2-6, 1-6 loss to Japan's Yoshihito Nishioka in the semi-final.

Image: Sania Mirza

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