Asian Games: Bastola-Khadka tennis pair reach last 16

Nepal's tennis pair of Abhishek Bastola and Pradeep Khadka has secured a place in the last 16 of the men's doubles at the ongoing 20th Asian Games in Japan.
The Nepali pair defeated their Mongolian opponents in the first-round match held on Sunday at the Higashiyama Park Tennis Center.
Mongolia's pair of Barkhas Munkhbaatar and Zolboadar Urnukh took to the court against them.
Bastola and Khadka won the first set 6–2. In the second set, the Mongolian pair leveled the match by winning 6–4.
The Nepali pair won the decisive third set by a narrow 14–12 margin to claim the match.
To reach the last eight, the pair will now have to overcome the challenge of an Indian pair.
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