Glasgow: Veteran Achanta Sharath Kamal and Anthony Amalraj picked up the silver medal in the men’s doubles table tennis after they lost 3-1 to Singapore’s Hu Li and Ning Gao in the title clash of the 2014 Commonwealth Games here on Friday.

Sharath, a three-time Commonwealth Games gold medallist, and Amalraj lost 11-8, 7-11, 9-11, 5-11 in 33 minutes to the Singaporean pair at the Scotstoun Sports Campus. It was the first medal for India from the sport in the 2014 Games.

The Indians started off well by winning the first game, but performed badly in the second as Singapore raced away to an 11-7 win in just six minutes. The third game turned out to be a close affair that India lost 9-11. Singapore proved their supremacy in the fourth game, winning it 5-11 with ease.

Sharath and Gao also faced each other in the men’s doubles final in 2010, which the Indian had won with Subhajit Saha in New Delhi, with different partners.

Another Singapore pair, Zi Yang and Jian Zhan, won the bronze medal after they won the play-off match against England. Zi and Jian beat English pair Paul Drinkhall and Liam Pitchford 6-11, 10-12, 11-7, 11-8, 10-12.

Earlier, Sharath and Amalraj earned an easy 11-7, 12-10, 11-3 win over Singapore’s Zi Yang and Jian Zhan in the semi-finals to enter the men’s doubles final.

Later, the 32-year-old Sharath recorded an easy 11-5, 11-6, 11-7, 11-4 win over Nigeria’s Segun Toriola in the round of 16, followed by a 11-7, 11-6, 12-10, 9-11, 11-6 quarter-final win over England’s Drinkhall to enter the men’s singles semis.

The 2006 Melbourne champion won the bronze four years ago in the category and will be eyeing another medal this time around when he takes on Zhan.

However, it was the end of the road for other Indian paddlers.

Though India’s rising star Soumyajit Ghosh beat Li 11-5, 2-11, 11-8, 11-9, 11-9 in the round of 16, he later went down to England’s Liam Pitchford 11-7, 7-11, 11-9, 7-11, 10-12, 9-11 in the men’s singles quarters.

Earlier, Harmeet Desai lost his men’s singles round of 16 match to Zhan 12-14, 6-11, 10-12, 11-13.

In the women’s doubles, Shamini Kumaresan and Madhurika Patkar overcame Australians Zhenhua Dederko and Ziyu Zhang 3-2 in the round of 16, but went down 10-12, 10-12, 11-8, 2-11 in their last eight clash with England’s Joanna Drinkhall and Kelly Sibley.

Ankita Das and Paulomi Ghatak also lost their last-16 match to Malaysia’s Lee Wei Beh and Soch Khim 7-11, 11-8, 7-11, 11-8, 4-11.