India’s Ramkumar Ramanathan and Saketh Myneni downed the fighting Korean team of Seongchan Hong and Soonwoo Kwon to move to the men’s doubles final on Thursday.
India’s mixed doubles pair of Rutuja Bhosale and Rohan Bopanna booked their spot in the semi-finals with a 7-5, 6-3 win over Zhibek Kulambayeva and Grigoriy Lomakin of Kazakhstan.
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The Koreans fought back after losing the opening set in a rather sedate manner but Myneni and Ramkumar held their nerves to walk away with a 6-1 6-7(8) 10-0 win in the semifinals.
The Indian team will now take on Chinese Taipei, which ousted Thailand, in the gold medal match. Myneni will now gun for his second Asian Games gold, having won a mixed doubles yellow metal with Sania Mirza in the 2014 edition. It will be a maiden Games medal for Ramkumar.
India had won the men’s doubles title in the last edition in Indonesia with Rohan Bopanna and Divij Sharan emerging victorious in the final.
The first set seemed going into a tie-break as Kulambayeva was serving at 40-0 in the 12th game but she lost her serve from that strong position.
There was hardly any fight in the second set.
Bopanna, who is playing his last Asian Games at 43, will not go without a medal and has been ousted from the men’s doubles with partner Yuki Bhambri.
(With inputs from Agencies)
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