India had a mixed day at tennis competition in the Asian Games, as Karan Rastogi and Vishnu Vardhan started their campaign with a comfortable victory in men’s double while Rushmi Chakravarti and Poojashree Venkatesh crashed out of the women’s doubles in the first round.
Rastogi and Vardhan ousted the Hong Kong pair of Cheuk-Wai Jack Hui and Xiaopeng Lai 6-1, 6-3 to advance to the second round of the competition.
The match that lasted only 57 minutes was completely dominated by the Indian duo as they never let their opponents to settle down. Hui and Lai could manage to retain their serve only once in the first set to lose it 1-6.
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In the second set, though they started on a positive note by retaining a couple of their serves, the Hong Kong pair eventually lost 3-6 to hand over India an easy win.
Rushmi and Poojashree, on the other hand, had a forgettable day as they proved no match to their strong Japanese opponents of Misaki Doi and Ryoko Fuda. Doi and Fuda thrashed the Indians 6-3, 6-1 in the first round match that lasted just 52 minutes.
Rushmi and Poojashree started well but once they were broken by their opponents in the first set, they could never recover from there. In the second set, they lost 1-6 with not much fight.
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