Saketh Myneni and Ramkumar Ramanathan helped India capture the silver medal in the men's doubles tennis competition at the Asian Games 2023.
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- Ramkumar Ramanathan and Saketh Myneni were defeated by Taiwan.
- Myneni and Ramanathan gave up two serve breaks.
- It took Taiwan 1 hour, 12 minutes to finish the game.
In the men's doubles tennis competition at the Asian Games 2023, Saketh Myneni and Ramkumar Ramanathan took home the silver medal. On September 29, they lost the gold medal match at the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Centre Tennis Centre Court to the Taiwanese team of Jason Jung and Yu-Hsiou Hsu 6-4, 6-4.
The Indian team gave up a break of serve in the fifth game, which proved to be crucial in the opening set's outcome. Myneni and Ramanathan maintained their serve to remain in the game at 3-5, but Taiwan finished the set in 35 minutes.
India was poised to make a comeback at 4-4. However, as Taiwan moved up 5-4, Myneni and Ramanathan lost their serve. In the end, the set was finished in 37 minutes, and the match was won in 1 hour, 12 minutes by Jung and Hsu.
Taiwan dominated so thoroughly that they gave India not a single opportunity to break their serve. From their initial serves, Taiwan won an amazing 86.67 percent of the time (26 out of 30). In contrast, India prevailed in 31 of the 35 first serve points.
The variation resulted from different second serves. Taiwan scored 77.78 percent of the points (14 out of 18), compared to India's disappointing 38.09 percent (8 out of 21).
Rutuja Sampatrao Bhosale and Rohan Bopanna will compete against Taiwan's Yu-Hsiou and Hao-ching Chan in the semi-final of the mixed doubles later in the day, giving India a chance to proceed to the gold medal match.
