India’s Tennis Medal Run Ends at Asian Games

India’s tennis team ended the Asian Games in Nagoya without a medal after Sumit Nagal lost to China’s Wu Yibing in the men’s singles quarterfinals, closing the country’s last remaining route to the podium. Wu won 6-4, 6-4, leaving India without a tennis medal at the Games for the first time since 1986. India had won at least one tennis medal at every Asian Games edition since 1990. The Nagoya result also ended a run of medals that had included recent success in singles and doubles. At the 2022 Games in Hangzhou, Rohan Bopanna and Rutuja Bhosale won mixed doubles gold, while Saketh Myneni and Ramkumar Ramanathan took silver in men’s doubles. Nagal reached the quarterfinals with wins over South Korea’s Hong Seongchan and Uzbekistan’s Sergey Fomin. He was India’s final singles contender after Dhakshineswar Suresh lost in the third round to Chinese Taipei’s Chun-Hsin Tseng. Suresh had advanced with a win over Indonesia’s Gunawan Trismuwantara. India’s men’s doubles pairs were eliminated in the quarterfinals. Yuki Bhambri and Suresh lost to Chinese Taipei’s Chenjui Ho and Yu-Hsiou Hsu, while top seeds N.