New Delhi, Delhi, India

Rohan Bopanna and Divij Sharan won the elusive gold medal in the finals of tennis men's doubles at 2018 Asian Games on Friday.

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The dynamic duo defeated Kazakhstan pair Aleksander Bublik and Denis Yevseyev 6-3, 6-4 in 52 minutes.

Top seeds Rohan Bopanna and Divij Sharan dominated the final clash to finish first at the podium.

On Thursday, they registered a hard-fought victory to enter the finals when they defeated Kaito Uesugi and Sho Shimabukuro of Japan 4-6, 6-3, 10-8 in an hour and 12 minutes.

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India have claimed the men's doubles gold on four occasions at the Games, the last pair being Somdev Devvarman and Sanam Singh in the 2010 Guangzhou edition.

Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes remain the most successful Indian men's doubles pair in the Asian Games history, having claimed back-to-back gold medals in the 2002 and 2006 Games.

Paes had stunned the Indian team this time by pulling out on the eve of the Games after complaining of not getting a specialist partner of his choice. 

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In 2014, Saketh Myneni and Sanam had ended with a silver medal.

Bopanna, Sharan bagged India's 22nd medal and the medal tally climbed up to 23 as a few moments later, Heena Sidhu won a bronze medal in women's 10m air pistol finals.

Earlier today, Indian men's quadruple sculls team won the gold medal in the rowing finals.

The Indian team comprising Sawarn Singh, Dattu Bhokanal, Om Prakash and Sukhmeet Singh finished on top ahead of Indonesia and Thailand.