Doubles specialist Rohan Bopanna will as soon as once more be the flag-bearer of India’s hopes in tennis on the Asian Video games because the All India Tennis Affiliation (AITA) on Tuesday introduced a 12-member squad for the continental quadrennial video games.
The Asian Video games will start in Hangzhou on September 23 with the lads’s crew comprising Sumit Nagal, Sasikumar Mukund, Davis Cupper Ramkumar Ramanathan, Yuki Bhambri and Saketh Myneni apart from the 43-year-old Bopanna.
The ladies’s contingent will likely be led by the earlier Asian Video games bronze medallist in singles, Ankita Raina. The opposite members are Karman Kaur Thandi, Rututaj Bhosle, Sahaja Yamlapalli, Vaidehi Chaudhari and Prarthane Thombare, in response to an announcement issued by AITA.
India had gained a gold and two bronze medals on the 2018 Asian Video games in Jakarta, the place the Bopanna-Divij Sharan pair had defeated Kazakhstan’s Alexander Bublik and Denis Yevseyev to clinch the doubles gold.
Within the males’s singles Prajnesh Gunneswaran had gained bronze in males’s singles.
Former India participant Rohit Rajpal has been named captain of the Asian Video games-bound contingent, whereas Ankita Bhambri would be the captain of the ladies’s crew.
“The chairman of the (AITA) Skilled Choice Committee, Nandan Bal, after contemplating precious recommendations from the committee members and crew captains, really useful the names of the gamers,” the assertion added.