India finish 10th in Nanjing Asian Youth Games
India's finished with an overall tally of 14 medals (3 gold, 4 silver and 7 bronze) after the trio of Madhav Yogesh Dhingra, Kush Kumar and Vijay Meena lost 1-2 against the Malaysians in a hard-fought men's squash team event final.
The men's squash team settled for a silver after losing their title match against Malaysia as India rounded off their campaign in the second Asian Youth Games with a 10th-place finish here on Friday.
India's finished with an overall tally of 14 medals (3 gold, 4 silver and 7 bronze) after the trio of Madhav Yogesh Dhingra, Kush Kumar and Vijay Meena lost 1-2 against the Malaysians in a hard-fought men's squash team event final.
Vijay Meena was the first to take the court against Yow Eain at the OSC Squash Hall and the contest turned out to be an exciting clash.
Both were in no mood to concede easy points and engaged each other in long rallies and delicate drop shots.
Eain took the first two games before Meena made a comeback to level the scoreline at 2-2.
In the decider, the lanky Indian started off well and reeled off seven straight points to make it 7-1. He kept up the momentum and put on display some fine fronthand cross-court shots to win the contest 5-11 7-11 11-9 11-6 11-5 in over an hour contest.
India's gold medallist in the men's singles squash competition, Kush Kumar could not repeat his magic and was humbled by Mohammad Syafiq 2-3 in another hard-fought contest. Kush lost 4-11 11-7 3-11 12-10 6-11 in 55 minutes.
In the third and final match, Yogesh Madhav Dhingra failed to provide any resistance to Lunn Ti Chan and lost 1-3 in 37 minutes.
India's other two gold in the multi-sport event came from Manu Gandas (golf) and Anjana Dhavalu Thamake (athletics).