two medals in table tennis
In table tennis, Sharath Kamal scored a hat-trick of gold medals in these games by defeating Liam Pitchford of England 4-1. The bronze of this event was won by Sathiyan Gyanasekhar. 40-year-old Sharath, who has been in fine form, made a comeback after losing the first game against a better player in the rankings, winning 11-13, 11-7, 11-2, 11-6, 11-8. Sharath’s world ranking is 39th while 29-year-old Pitchford is in 20th place.
This is Sharath’s total 13th medal in these games. He won four medals at the Birmingham Games. In which the team event before this gold, gold with Sreeja Akula in mixed doubles and silver medal in men’s doubles. He won the gold medal while making his debut at the Melbourne Games in 2006.
three gold in badminton
Indian badminton players won gold medals in all their three events. Two-time Olympic medalists PV Sindhu and Lakshya Sen won the women’s and men’s singles gold medals respectively in the Commonwealth Games badminton competition, while the pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty also won the men’s singles medals in the finals here on Monday. She was successful in winning the gold medal in doubles. In badminton, world number seven Sindhu defeated world number 13 Michelle Lee of Canada 21-15, 21-13.
In the men’s singles final between two young players, world number 10 and World Championship bronze medalist Lakshya Sen came back strongly after losing the first game to defeat Malaysia’s world number 42 Ng TJ Yong 19-21. , 21-9, 21-16 to win the gold medal in his Commonwealth Games debut. World No. 7 pair of Satwik and Chirag defeated world No. 19 England pair of Ben Lane and Sean Wendy 21-15, 21-13 in the men’s doubles final.
humiliating defeat in hockey
At the same time, India’s dream of breaking Australia’s dominance in the Commonwealth Games remained unfulfilled and after a humiliating 0-7 defeat at the hands of the legendary team in the one-sided final, they had to be content with the silver medal. Australia proved dwarf in every department to the Tokyo Olympic bronze medal winning Indian team. The bitter memories of the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games were revived in the minds of hockey lovers when Australia defeated India 8-0 in the final.