New Delhi, Oct. 23 -- Harmeet Desai and Yashaswini Ghorpade ended India's 72-year wait for a mixed doubles medal at the Asian Table Tennis Championships after reaching the semifinals of the 2026 edition in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, today.
The Indian pair, ranked 26th in the world, went down 0-3 (9-11, 9-11, 8-11) to Japan's ninth-ranked Sora Matsushima and Miwa Harimoto in the semifinals. However, their place in the last four had already guaranteed them at least a bronze medal, marking India's return to the mixed doubles podium at the continental championships for the first time since 1954.
India's previous medals in the event came in 1952, when Gool Nasikwala and Kalyan Jayant won gold, and in 1954, when Yatin Vyas and Meena Parande claimed ...