India’s Dipika Pallikal and Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu received the squash combined doubles gold on the Asian Video games after keeping off a final minute problem from their Malaysian opponents within the closing right here on Thursday.
The Indians eked out a 11-10 11-10 win over Aifa Binti Azman and Mohammad Syafiq Bin Mohd Kamal in 35 minutes.
Cruising to a straightforward win at one level, the Indians seemingly misplaced focus, giving freely simple factors within the second recreation.
The Malaysian duo received seven consecutive factors to rise from 3-9 to 10-9 earlier than Harinder and Dipika raised their degree to shut out the match.
In probably her final hurrah on the continental showpiece, Dipika received two medals — a bronze within the girls’s crew occasion in addition to the combined doubles gold.
The 32-year-old thus has a haul of six medals, together with one gold and one silver and 4 bronze medals throughout 4 editions of the Asian Video games.
