NEW DELHI: India has won its 60th medal of the 2018
Commonwealth Games
in the form of a 19th bronze, which came from an all-Indian mixed doubles bronze medal match.
FOLLOW: Live - Commonwealth Games 2018, Day 11Sathiyan Gnanasekaran and
Manika Batra beat the pairing of Achantha
Sharath Kamal and
Mouma Das
11-6, 11-2, 11-4 to complete a 3-0 win and deliver India its seventh table tennis medal at the
Gold Coast
Games.
On Saturday, Sathiyan and Manika had lost 2-3 in the semi-finals to the English duo of Liam Pitchford and Tin-Tin Ho while Sharath and Mouma had been been by the same margin it their semi-final versus Singapore’s Ning Gao and Mengyu Yu
ALSO READ: Manika Batra wins historic Table Tennis goldThis the fourth medal for Manika, who in February was voted TT Player of the Year in the People’s Choice Category at the third Times of India Sports Awards (TOISA). On Saturday, she had won the country a historic TT gold by beating Yu 4-0 in the women’s singles gold medal match, thus becoming the first Indian woman to do so at the CWG. Prior to that, she had played a leading role in the women’s team’s upset win over four-time
CWG
gold medalists Singapore in the finals on Sunday and then, paired with Mouma, Manika had claimed bronze in the women’s doubles.
ALSO READ: Manika Batra, Mouma Das win women's doubles TT silverSathiyan, who was crowned TT Player of the Year [Jury’s Choice] at TOISA, had won men’s doubles silver with Sharath and gold with the men’s team.
Sharath will later today face England’s Sam Walker in the men’s singles gold medal match.