Prajnesh Gunneswaran settled for bronze in Men’s Singles Tennis at Asian Games 2018 after he lost the semifinal match to Uzbekistan’s Denis Istomin. With this, Gunneswaran joined his female counterpart Ankita Raina who also won a bronze in this edition of the Asian Games. Prajnesh became only the 6th India to win a men’s singles medal at the Asian Games.
Prajnesh, who ranks 161st in the world, went down 2-6, 2-6 to world No.75 Istomin in 86 minutes. Istomin not only held his serves with ease but broke Prajnesh twice in both the sets to comfortably take the win. With this Tennis medal bronze, India’s medals tally went upto 25 medals — 6 gold, 5 silver and 14 bronze.
