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Achanta Sharath Kamal: The Indian men's table tennis team settled with a bronze medal, concluding their Asian Championships campaign with a semifinal loss to Chinese Taipei, here on Wednesday.

The third-seeded men's team of Achanta Sharath Kamal, Harmeet Desai, and Sathiyan Gnanasekaran suffered a 0-3 loss to Chinese Taipei to end their campaign in third place.

In the first rubber, ace paddler Sharath lost 6-11, 6-11, 9-11 to Chuang Chih-Yuan while Sathiyan suffered 5-11, 6-11, 10-12 loss at the hands of Lin Yun-Ju in the second tie. In the third rubber, Harmeet fought to give India an upper hand but eventually lost 6-11, 7-11, 11-7, 9-11 to Kao Cheng-Jui.