The men’s team championship gold may have been India’s seventh table tennis gold in the Commonwealth Games history ever since table tennis was included in the Friendly Games in 2002. But it was a first in many ways for India’s paddlers as for the first time, India defended a gold medal.
No doubt G. Sathiyan, India’s highest-ranked paddler in the squad, was chuffed with the team winning its second successive gold medal. “It’s a huge win. For the first time, we have defended the gold. Feels great to be able to do that. And that makes it much sweeter than the 2018 win,” Sathiyan told The Hindu soon after India overhauled Singapore 3-1 in the final at Birmingham.
Being a qualified engineer, Sathiyan has a habit of using multiple adjectives. The manner in which he carried himself out on the show court on Tuesday was worthy of him being showered with all sorts of adjectives.
