CWG 2018 Day 11 Live updates: PV Sindhu and Saina Nehwal will be play for the women’s badminton singles gold. (Source: AP)
Saturday was a day of many firsts for India at the 21st Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast. Javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra, paddler Manika Batra and boxer Mary Kom won India’s first gold medals in their respective disciplines. India won a total of 17 medals, taking them past the 50-medal mark, and finishing the day with 59. When Day 10 started there India and Canada were seperated by three gold medals with Canada being more than 50 ahead on total medal count. By the end of it, though, there was clear daylight between the two countries and India start the final day on 25 golds, 10 more than Canada. India are assured of one gold medal with the badminton women’s singles finals being a blockbuster showdown between PV Sindhu and Saina Nehwal. Apart from that, India have a chance of winning gold in badminton men’s singles with Kidambi Srikanth playing Malaysian great Lee Chong Wei, badminton men’s doubles and squash women’s doubles.
(Source: PTI)
Highlights
Kidambi Srikanth had gotten the better of Lee Chong Wei in the mixed team event but in the men's singles badminton event, it is the Malaysian who comes out on top despite losing the opening game. Chong Wei winning 19-21, 21-14, 21-14 in an hour and seven minutes
Silver medal for India in squash! Joshna Chinappa and Dipika Pallikal lose to New Zealand's Joelle King/Amanda Landers-Murphy in the women's doubles squash. The 9-11, 8-11 defeat lasting 21 minutes.
Achanta Sharath Kamal claims the bronze medal in the men's singles table tennis event. Downs Samuel Walker of England 11-7, 11-9, 9-11, 11-6, 12-10 in the bronze medal match. This is his third medal in Gold Coast
Chong Wei wins the second game 21-14 to push the match into decider after the Indian shuttler Srikanth finds it hard to take his smashes.
Kidambi Srikanth takes 1-0 lead after winning the first game 21-19 against Malaysia's Chong Wei Lee.
Sharath Achanta's bronze medal match against Samuel Walker in Table Tennis Men's Singles is underway at Oxenford Studios.
World No. 1 Kidambi Srikanth has now taken the court for final men's singles badminton clash against Chong Wei Lee of Malaysia.
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Saina Nehwal beats PV Sindhu 21-18, 23-21 in the women’s singles final to win her second Commonwealth Games gold. With the feat, she becomes the first Indian to win two singles golds at the Commonwealth Games. PV Sindhu settles for silver after what was a super intense final!
Saina Nehwal wins first game against PV Sindhu 21-18. Great resilience by Saina, who uses her experience to get the better of Sindhu in the first game. Sindhu has a history of unfortunate finals. Will this see the same fate?
India gets the first medal of the day - a bronze in table tennis mixed doubles. Sathiyan Gnanasekaran-Manika Batra beat Sharath Achanta-Mouma Das to win mixed doubles table tennis bronze medal. This is Manika Batra's fourth medal of the Games!
England's Gabrielle Adcock and Chris Adcock beat compatriots Marcus Ellis, Lauren Smith to win gold in badminton mixed doubles final. Next up, it is the women's singles finals between PV Sindhu and Saina Nehwal.
Hello. Welcome to our live coverage of the final day of Commonwealth Games 2018. This is a highly important day for the country who will increase their medal tally further. It is also an important day for the country's badminton campaign with a blockbuster all-India final where Indian fans will be divided between which ace player to support - the experienced Saina Nehwal or the determined PV Sindhu. Day 11 will also see Kidambi Srikanth fighting for gold in the men's singles final. Meanwhile, Satwik Rankireddy-Chirag Shetty will play for gold in badminton men's doubles. Another all -India bronze medal match will feature Sharath Achanta-Das Mouma against Sathiyan Gnanasekaran-Manika Batra. Sharath Achanta will also be hoping to take home the bronze medal when he takes on Samuel Walker. Joshna Chinnappa-Dipika Pallikal will also hope to take home another gold. India currently stand at the third position in medal tally list.