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SEA Games: Tennis near-sweep as Thailand storm ahead
Thailand just missed out on a Southeast Asian (SEA) Games tennis clean-sweep as they powered away from hosts Singapore on the medals table on Sunday
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hailand just missed out on a Southeast Asian (SEA) Games tennis clean-sweep as they powered away from hosts Singapore on the medals table on Sunday.
Warit Sornbutnark beat Indonesia's David Susanto to win the men's singles 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 and make it four titles out of five for the Thais at Kallang tennis center.
Thailand also won the women's doubles on Sunday, a day after claiming the men's doubles and the women's singles through Noppawan Lertcheewakarn.
But Philippines duo Denise Dy and Treat Huey stopped Thailand winning all five when they beat Peangtarn Plipuech and Sonchat Ratiwatana to win the mixed doubles.
Thailand also celebrated wins in rowing, wakeboarding and martial art pencak silat as they reached 85 gold medals, nine ahead of Singapore, by Sunday afternoon.
Malaysia's Koi Sie Yan and Shasangari S. Nagarajan, both 16, shared individual all-around rhythmic gymnastics gold when they were awarded identical scores of 60.250.
And Malaysian cyclist Mohd Harrif Saleh, who earlier overcame food poisoning to win the men's criterium, picked up another gold in the men's road race.
Thailand's women's volleyball team also beat Indonesia 3-1 in the semi-finals, ending a turbulent appearance after calls for a gender test on their player Aprilia Manganang. (iik)(++++)
