Sepaktakraw is preparing to launch an international offensive after having a stunning impact at the 15th Asian Games Doha 2006.

Sepaktakraw's final match in the 15th Asian Games Doha 2006 ended tonight at 17:52, but the games played, the success and failures of Asia's greatest sepaktakraw countries and regions will burn brightly, or sometimes simmer darkly, for the next four years.

Vietnam walked away with the first Asian Games double gold medal in sepaktakraw after taming Myanmar 2-0 in the women's double final at Al-Sadd Sports Club.

Myanmar will get their chance to take on sepaktakraw kings Thailand in the men's doubles final after knocking out Malaysia in the semifinal 21-16, 23-25, 15-12 in a turbocharged battle which could hardly have been closer.

Two corking semifinals in the women's sepaktakraw doubles saw Vietnam and Myanmar move through to Wednesday evening's final - but not without a few trials and tribulations along the way.

Having won golds in 1998 and 2002, Thailand became the first country to win three successive gold medals in the Asian Games sepaktakraw team events after beating Malaysia 2-0 in the men's sepaktakraw team final at Al-Sadd Sports Club.