In truth, Jing rarely looked troubled as she sealed a 21-16, 21-17 win over Walker who had the majority backing of the packed stands here at the Emirates Arena willing the 25-year-old on to a victory that would have set up a deciding match in the women's mixed doubles.

However, the Malaysians took gold with a match to spare cueing wild celebrations among the very small but extremely loud band of supporters who made the trip from Asia.

Prior to the women's match, Chris Adcock and Andrew Ellis had gone down to Tan Wee Kiong and Wei Shem Goh 21-19, 21-14.

Both pairs matched each other throughout the first game and with the Malaysians 19-17 up a smash down the middle from Adcock was called long but replays on the big screen showed it had landed inside the baseline eliciting the boos from the majority inside the arena.

It did not appear to overly affect Ellis and Adcock's concentration as they bagged the next two points but Goh found an unguarded spot on the English court to take a 1-0 lead.

The second game was equally close but Tan and Wei always appeared to have a little something in reserve and so it proved as they began to find gaps and angles to eventually pull away and take the game 21-14 and the match 2-0.

Jing Yi Tee prevailed in the decisive match at the Emirates Arena to seal gold for Malaysia ©Getty Images



Adcock had earlier got England off to the perfect start with wife Gabby securing a 2-0 win over Chan Peng Soon and Lai Pei Jing in the opening mixed doubles match.

They settled into their stride right away with Chris producing two superb overhead cross-court smashes that flew across the net and found the back of the court like bullets from a gun.

They saw out game one comfortably 21-14 before Chan and Lei regrouped at the start of the second to match their opponents point-for-point.

The Malaysians had a two point lead at one stage but were reeled in before the game passed the 21-point mark meaning the winners needed a clear two-point gap.

Both sides swapped points in a tense few minutes with England saving game point twice before managing to sneak ahead to set up their own match-winning opportunity.

Unfortunately it was an error by Lei that handed the Adcocks the win as she found the net with her effort to cue the loudest cheer of the night so far.

Malaysia levelled in the next match as Chong Wei Feng defeated British number on Rajiv Ouseph in a thriller.

Chong Wei Feng and Rajiv Ouseph embrace after they played in the best match of the day during the mixed team gold medal decider at Glasgow 2014 ©Getty Images



Ouseph raced into a 9-5 lead as he seemed to grow in confidence which was illustrated by one sublime effort from the right side of the base-line when he rose to meet a high return from Chong.

He shaped to hit a smash but instead arched his wrist to play a delicious cross-court semi drop-shot which left his opponent scrambling.

Chong was not done however, bringing it back to 11-11, then taking the next four points as he began to sense he was in with a real chance of victory.

But once again the momentum swung as Ouseph reeled off a couple of superb smashes on his way to levelling at 16-16 only for Chong to hit-back with four straight points to set up match-point.

One last effort from Ouseph saw him snatch three points to bring it to 20-19 but Chong produced a stunning cross-court rocket down to the Englishman's left to take the game and level the match at 1-1.

At that stage English supporters were dreaming of gold but it was not to be.

Earlier in the day Singapore overcame Delhi 2010 silver medallists India to take the bronze medal with mixed doubles pair Danny Chrisnanta and Venessa Neo, Chrisnanta again and Chayut Triyachart in the men's doubles and the women's doubles pairing of Shinta Mulia Sari and Lei Yao claiming wins in a 3-2 victory.

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