A Gold medal continues to elude the Indian squash veteran Saurav Ghosal as he lost the men's singles final in the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou to Malaysia's Eain Yow. Ghosal won the first set but went on to lose three consecutive sets to settle for a Silver medal.
The 35-year-old Ghosal will now be among the Professional Squash Association's (PSA) Board of Directors in a two-year term.
Saurav Ghosal, the top player, went down to Ng Eain Yow 10-12 4-11 8-11 while Ramit Tandon stretched Ivan Yeun to four games but the Indians could not quite make a match of it.
The top-seeded Indian men's team routed Indonesia 3-0 to finish with an unbeaten record after five matches in Pool A, the women (seeded 3rd) put it across Iran 3-0 to end up second behind Malaysia in Pool B.
The top-seeded Indian men's team won its first two matches in the 20th Asian Squash Championship; defeating Iraq and Philippines.
The 20th Asian Team Championship -- both men and women -- is slated in Kuala Lumpur from November 30 to December 4 while the Worlds event will take place in the same city from December 7.
The World No. 13 said that he was yet to fully recover from an adductor injury he suffered during the Qatar Classic in early November.
Ghosal is not bogged down and is hopeful he will come out of this isolation period a better human being.
Saurav Ghosal is a 13-time national champion and current world no. 13 while Joshna Chinappa has won the national title 18 times and she is ranked 12th in the world.
Ghosal, the top seed and finalist last year, ensured there was no slip this time when he downed the fourth seed Leo Au Chun Ming, also of Hong Kong, in straight games 11-9, 11-2, 11-8.
Riding on his recent performances, Ghosal has moved up two places to a career-high ranking of 10.
Dipika lost to defending champion Nicol David of Malaysia while Joshna was shown the door by Malaysian Sivasangari Subramaniam of Malaysia. While top seed Ghosal lost to Chung Ming Au of Hong Kong China.
India's Dipika Pallikal and Saurav Ghosal settled for a silver after going down against Australia's Donna Urquhart and Cameron Pilley in the summit clash of the mixed doubles squash competition at the 21st Commonwealth Games on Saturday.
Ghosal, who had lost the bronze medal play-off in Glasgow four years ago, gets another shot at making history.
The 31-year old Ghosal beat Joshna Chinappa who slipped three places to No. 17 while Dipika Pallikal Karthik remained on 20 in the Professional Squash Association (PSA) rankings released on Friday.
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