South Asian Games 2019: Gayatri And Ashmita Chaliha Win Respective Women’s Singles Semifinal to Setup All-Indian Final, India Assured of Two Golds
Mumbai: To set up an all-Indian summit clash in the women’s singles category at the 13th South Asian Games (SAG) on Thursday. Indian shuttlers Ashmita Chaliha and Gayatri Gopichand registered convincing victories in their respective semifinals. Ashmita was at the top as she thrashed her Sri Lankan opponent Achini Ratnasiri 21-5 21-7, then Gayatri registered an easy 21-17 21-14 win over Dilmi Dias of Sri Lanka.
While India has also dominated the men’s singles category as well with Aryaman Tondon and Siril Verma setting up the final clash after winning their respective semifinals.
Top-seeded Siril beat Sri Lanka’s Dinuka Karunaratne 21-9, 21-12 in straight sets. However, Aryaman had to fight hard during his 21-18 14-21 21-18 win against second seed Nepal’s Ratnajith Tamang.
India also topped in the men’s doubles semi-final, as Krishna Garaga and Dhruv Kapila notched up an easy 21-15 21-7 win over Pakistani pair of Mohommed Antique and Raja Mohommed Hasnain. The Indian pair will now face Sri Lanka’s S Dias Angoda Vidanalage and B Tharindu Dullew, who beat Nepal’s Prince Dahal and P Maharajan 21-11 21-19 in the final.
While India’s challenge came to an end in the women’s double category after both the pairs Kuhoo Garg and Anoushka Parikh and Meghana Jakkampudi and N Sikki Reddy lost in the semifinals.
Khoo and Anoushka went down fighting against Sri Lanka Achini Ratnasiri and Upuli Samanthika Weerasinghe 10-21 18-21, while Meghana and N Sikki Reddy lost to top-seeded Sri Lankan pair of Thilini Hendehewa and K Sirimannage 21-14 21-18.
In mixed doubles, top-seeded Indian pair of Dhruv and Meghana entered the final after beating Nepal’s Bikash Shrestha and Anu Maya Rai 21-14 21-13.
Remaining all the final matches will take place on Friday.
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