India’s Sreeja Akula suffered a heartbreaking loss on the Commonwealth Video games as she went all the way down to Australia’s Yangzi Liu 3-4 in a detailed bronze medal play-off.
Sreeja went down 11-3 6-11 2-11 11-7 13-15 11-9 7-11 after staging a slew of comebacks in a fit that lasted a couple of and a part hour.The Hyderabad-born paddler made a assured get started in opposition to Liu who gave the impression moderately anxious and the previous took benefit of that to race to a 11-3 win the primary recreation.
The Australian bounced again with a extra attacking intent and clinched the second one recreation 11-6 to attract degree.Buoyed through her comeback in the second one recreation, Liu persevered from the place she left off and didn’t permit the Indian to seek out any rhythm, and received the 3rd recreation 11-2.
Sreeja, on the other hand, displayed the primary indicators of her never-say-die angle and trusted her good forehand performs to win the fourth recreation 11-7.With the fit all set at 2-2, it used to be Liu as soon as once more, who went forward with a good recreation and made it 15-13 within the 5th recreation.
The 6th recreation grew to become out to be a fight of wits between the 2 avid gamers nevertheless it used to be Sreeja, who confirmed her magnificence through successful 11-9, after trailing 1-7 at one level.The deciding set grew to become out to be one thing equivalent as Sreeja, in spite of trailing 1-6, made it 5-8.
Nevertheless it used to be the Australian who had the ultimate snort and walked away with the bronze. Within the males’s occasions, the pair of Sharath Kamal and G Sathiyan will face the English duo of Paul Drinkhall and Liam Pitchford within the doubles gold medal fit.Within the singles occasions, Sharath will tackle Drinkall within the first semifinal later this night whilst Sathiyan will pass swords with Pitchford in the second one semifinal conflict.
Then again, the blended doubles gold medal fit will see Sharath pairing up with Sreeja to sq. up in opposition to Malaysian pair of