Asian Games News
At 2010 Asian Games, Guangzhou, China

Today very so-so day as we failed to win a single medal in shooting ... In snooker team event we won Silver ... In semis we defeated Pakistani team 3-0 but we lost final against Chinese team 1-3, only Aditya won his match.

In tennis we lost semi-final 1-2 against top-seed Chinese Taipei team ... In my view this loss was due to poor team selection from our captain Mr. Nandan Bal ... In first single he decided to play Sanam Singh over Karan Rastogi, who was in good form ... But Sanam gave his full efforts in singles though lost in 3 sets against young Tsung Hua Yang ... Somi won his match in straight sets against Ti Chen as WR #35 Yen-Hsun Lu was unavailable due to injury ... Then Nandan decided to play Sanam with Somi in final doubles rubber, who was tired after playing long match and also taken medical injury break in late of third set instead of playing fresh legs of Karan and Vishnu, Somi and Sanam lost in straight sets to blown up our chance of making final ... So our team need to remain happy with Bronze.

For me best performance of the day came from our young 19 yrs old swimmer Virdhawal Khade ... Who qualified for the Men's 50m Freestyle Final with 5th best timing in the heat, 22.98 secs ... In the final he finished on 4th position with 22.87 secs timing, he missed bronze medal by mere 0.03 sec ... Very positive performance from him.

Our 2 Wushu players are in medal round in mens and womens 60 kg category ... Doha's Bronze medal winner Bimoljit Singh Mayanglambam is in semis and facing Iranian Mohsen Mohammadseifi ... Sandhyarani Devi Wangkhem is playing against Laos player Paloy Barckkham in semis.

Our best hope in weightlifting,Ravi Kumar Katulu finished 5th in 69 kg category ... He lifted total 311 kg weight, 10 kg less than bronze medal winner Indonesian lifter.

Mens hockey team started with win, they won 7-0 against Hong Kong team ... We should won that match by more than 10 goals margin.

In volleyball Korea defeated us convincingly , 3-0 (25-19 25-20 25-19) .. Frankly after watching scratchy performance against Kazakhstan I was expected this ... We need to improve our overall performance to fight in place for semis ... Again our blocking and defence was poor.

Snooker - Men's Snooker Team
Gold - China
Junhui Ding
Wenbo Liang
Pengfei Tian

Silver - India
Brijesh Damani
Aditya Mehta
Yasin Merchant

Bronze - Pakistan
Sohail Shehzad
Shahram Changezi
Imran Shehzad

Thailand
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
Noppadon Noppachorn
Ratchapol Pu-Ob-Orm

Pool - Men's 8-Ball Pool Singles
Gold - Po-Cheng Kuo (TPE)
Silver - Ibrahim Amir (MAS)
Bronze - Alok Kumar (IND) and Irsal Afrinneza Nasution (INA)