{"id":301799,"date":"2018-08-24T08:38:36","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T08:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=301799"},"modified":"2018-08-24T08:38:36","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T08:38:36","slug":"asian-games-2018-india-win-gold-in-mens-doubles-tennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/asian-games-2018-india-win-gold-in-mens-doubles-tennis\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian Games 2018: India win gold in men&#8217;s doubles tennis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-301800 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/tennis-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"577\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/tennis-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/tennis-768x556.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/tennis-1024x742.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/tennis-324x235.jpg 324w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/tennis-696x504.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/tennis-1068x773.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/tennis-580x420.jpg 580w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/tennis.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 577px) 100vw, 577px\" \/><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Indian tennis players\u00a0Rohan Bopanna and Divij Sharan won the gold medal in\u00a018th\u00a0Asian Games 2018 in\u00a0Jakarta after beating Kazakhstan&#8217;s men&#8217;s doubles pair.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Top seeds Bopanna and Sharan beat\u00a0Denis Yevseyev and Alexander Bublik of Kazakhstan in straight sets 6-3, 6-4 to win the gold medal in the match.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">India&#8217;s medal tally has now risen to 22 including 6 gold, 4 silver and 12 bronze.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">President Ram Nath Kovind took to his twitter account and congratulated the winners.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cCongratulations @rohanbopanna and @divijsharan for winning the Gold Medal in Men\u2019s Doubles Tennis event at the @asiangames2018!! India is proud of you\u201d, tweeted by the President.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Earlier Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi won the gold in men\u2019s doubles in 2002 and 2006, while Sanam Singh and Somdev Devvarman won gold in 2010.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian tennis players\u00a0Rohan Bopanna and Divij Sharan won the gold medal in\u00a018th\u00a0Asian Games 2018 in\u00a0Jakarta after beating Kazakhstan&#8217;s men&#8217;s doubles pair. Top seeds Bopanna and Sharan beat\u00a0Denis Yevseyev and Alexander Bublik of Kazakhstan in straight sets 6-3, 6-4 to win the gold medal in the match. India&#8217;s medal tally has now risen to 22 including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":301800,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[4380,574,3657,407,3072],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301799"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301801,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301799\/revisions\/301801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}