It’s raining gold for India in Jakarta! Rohan Bopanna and Divij Sharan gift gold to the country in men's doubles tennis event

Jakarta, August 24: With India winning gold in Quadruple Sculls event, the athletes having a bull’s eye on the gold medal gift their mother India with another glorying beauty of Gold. This time it’s India's Rohan Bopanna and Divij Sharan who won the gold medal in the men's doubles tennis event.

 

At the ongoing 18th Asian Games 2018 in the twin cities of Jakarta and Palembang, the Indian tennis players won the gold medal in their match against Kazakhstan's men's doubles pair.

Bopanna and Sharan, who were the top seeds in the event, played to their billing throughout the tournament and beat Kazakhstan's Aleksandr Bublik and Denis Yevseyev 6-3, 6-4 to scoop the top prize in the event.

It was Bopanna and Sharan's hold on their own serves that did in the pair from Kazakhstan. The power and intelligence of Bopanna's serve were too much to handle for the Kazakhs. On top of that Bopanna and Sharan were extremely quick on their feet and strong and smart with the returns that caught the Kazakhstan pair off-guard. Bopanna and Sharan swept through the first set and took it 6-3 in just 25 mins. One break of the Kazakhstan serve was enough for the top Indian pair to take it through.

Thereafter, it was only a matter of time before Bopanna and Sharan took the set 6-4 and brought home gold.

This is India's second tennis medal at the Asian Games in Indonesia after Ankita Raina settled for bronze after a 4-6, 6-7 loss to Chinese top seed and world No.34 Shuai Zhang. On the whole, this is India's fifth men's doubles gold medal at the Asian Games and a 10th medal in the category.

With the win, India's medals tally has now swelled up to 22, including 6 gold medals, 4 silver and 12 bronze.