India, Sept. 26 -- Diya Chitale sensed a different body language in her, Manush Shah and them as a doubles combination on Friday morning that gave her a bit of an inkling. They were playing Hong Kong's Wong Chun Ting and Doo Hoi Kem, the world No.4 pair whom they had lost to twice previously.

"We were really aggressive today," Diya told HT. "We were shouting after each point. We knew what this match meant for us." They were also shouting after the match. For they knew what it meant. Diya and Manush delivered only the fourth table tennis medal in India's Asian Games history at Aichi-Nagoya, a mixed doubles bronze.

The eight-ranked Indian duo upset Ting and Kem, the world No.4 multiple-time World Championships medallists, 3-1 (11-6, 13-15...