Incheon, South Korea: Indian tennis player Saketh Myneni completed a memorable Asian Games campaign for the country by bagging two medals — a mixed doubles gold with Sania Mirza and men’s doubles silver alongside Sanam Singh — at the Yeorumul Tennis Courts here on Monday.

Sania and Myneni, seeded second, defeated the top seeded Chinese Taipei duo of Hsien Yin Peng and Hao Ching Chan in straight sets 6-4, 6-3 in 44 minutes.

The Indian pair started positively and broke their opponents in the fourth game to win the first set 6-4. They carried forward the momentum and broke in the first game of the second set to intensify the pressure. They went ahead 4-3 and secured the match, winning the next two games.

It was Sania’s third consecutive Games mixed doubles final appearance, having won gold in 2006 with Leander Paes and silver with Vishnu Vardhan in 2010.

Earlier in the day, the men’s doubles team of Sanam and Saketh won silver, losing their gold medal match to South Korea’s Lim Yong-kyu and Chung Hye-on Chung 5-7, 6-7 (2-7) in one hour and 29 minutes.

The fifth-seeded Indian pair fought valiantly, matching their opponents in every shot. But inexperience proved to be their bane, losing the crucial points to concede defeat.

Discus gold

Meanwhile, discus thrower Seema Punia gave India its first track and field gold medal while middle-distance runners O.P. Jaisha and Naveen Kumar added two more bronze in what was an impressive day at the Incheon Asiad Main Stadium.

With the three medals, India’s tally from the track and field events now stands at eight.

Seema, a silver medallist in the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games, hurled the disc to 61.03 metres in her fourth attempt to win the gold medal, while her teammate Krishna Poonia, bronze medallist in the 2006 and 2010 Asian Games, finished fourth with a below par 55.57m.

Chinese Xiaoxin Lu (59.35m) and Jian Tan (59.03m) picked up the silver and bronze respectively.

An emotional Seema said the silver in Glasgow inspired her to win the gold medal here.

“I am very happy to get the gold, which I expected to win today. I have trained for this gold over the last three years. I had waited for this after missing the last two Asian Games,” she said. “I usually don’t perform well in my first throw. But I followed my coach’s instructions today to hurl the disc past the 55-metre mark with my first attempt.”

Meanwhile, Naveen won the bronze medal in the men’s 3,000-metre steeplechase with a personal best time of 8min 40.39sec.

Jaisha Orchatteri Puthiya Veetil won bronze in the women’s 1,500 metres. The Indian finished third in 4:13.46.

In the women’s long jump final, M. Prajusha (6.23m) and Mayookha Johny (6.12m) finished eighth and ninth respectively, while Nikhil Chittarasu (2.15m) finished a distant 16th in the men’s long jump.