Asian Junior TT Championships : Cadet Championships : Indian paddlers ended their campaign in the Asian Junior and Cadet Championships in Laos on a golden note as Payas Jain and Yashaswini Ghorpade defeated the Chinese duo of Han Xinyuan and Qin Yuxuan 3-2 in a thrilling final on Tuesday. Follow Asian junior TT champioships live updates on InsideSport.IN
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The Indians won 11-9, 11-1, 10-12, 7- 11, and 11-8. Incidentally, this was the first gold medal that the Indian juniors have won
in an Asian Championships, and it came close on the heels of our first mixed gold at the CWG through Sharath Kamal and Sreeja Akula in
Birmingham last month.
Indian Table Tennis duo, #PayasJain and #YashaswiniGhorpade win Gold 🥇 at #AsianJuniorChampionships 2022 🇮🇳🏓
The young paddlers won the prestigious 🏅 in Mixed doubles event 💪
Congratulations to both for this amazing feat! 🤩🏆🇮🇳 pic.twitter.com/guFH1x8JnB
— SAI Media (@Media_SAI) September 6, 2022
Asian Junior TT Championships : Payas-Yashaswini pair wins gold at Asian Junior TT
Besides, India also grabbed three bronze medals, one each in the U-19 Boys Doubles, in the U-19 girls singles, and in the U-19. Boys team event. Overall, the Indians did well to return home with four medals. The top-seeded Indian duo started well to surge into a 2-0 lead before the Chinese pair came back to take the next two games.
However, in the decider, Payas and Yashaswini combined cleverly and attacked in a measured way to outwit their opponents. Earlier, the top-seeded Karnataka girl did well up to the quarterfinals in the Under-19 Girls singles but lost to Chen Yi of China in the semis, losing the match in straight games of 13-11, 11-9, 11-4, 11-3.
After the first two games, where Yashaswini showed her fighting qualities, she lost steam in the next two and didn’t play as well.
Payas, who combined with Delhi-mate Yashansh Malik in the U-19 Boys Doubles till the previous round, failed to repeat their performance in the semifinals against the Japanese duo of Yuta Iimura and Yuhi Sakai.
The Japanese paddlers, which became the eventual gold-winner, beat the Indians 11-8, 11-7, 12-14, 11-6, and settled for bronze.
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