Asian Games News
At 2010 Asian Games, Guangzhou, China

Now India having 2 Gold, 8 Silver and 10 Bronze medals ... 20 medals in total and currently we r on 11th position.

Indians rowers gave roaring start for India on 7th day ... Indian rowers won 3 medals ... As expected before Asian games bigins, Bajrang Lal Takhar won Gold medal in Men's Single Sculls ... In Men's eight final our team of Anil Kumar, Girraj Singh, Saji Thomas, Lokesh Kumar, Manjeet Singh, Rajesh Kumar Yadav, Ranjit Singh, Satish Joshi and Jenil Krishnan won Silver behind Chinese team ... Indian women also won Bronze medal in Women's Pair Final in close fight with Indonasian pair.

In shooting Mens Trap team event Manavjit Singh Sandhu scored perfect 25 on last round that helped us to win Bronze beating host China by a point ... But in individual final Manavjit couldn't repeat same performance and managed only 17 hits from 25 ... That put him tied for 3rd place but he missed shot on shoot-off to ended on 5th position.

In boxing Men's 60kg category young Viskas Krishan scored another convincing win over Turkmenistan boxer Amangeldi 8-1 to moved into quarter-final ... In Men's 81kg category Dinesh Kumar scored comfortable win over Korean Jinho Heo to moved into semi-final ... So another medal is assured in boxing ... Dinesh Kumar controlled this match from the start, he was leading 8-4 after second round ... In boxing 64kg category another young boxer 19 yrs old Santosh Kumar showed good technique against Malaysian Azmi Akyazlan to moved into quarter final, he won bout 6-1.

In tennis 2nd seed Somdev and 7th seed Karan scored thumping victories ... Both gave double bagel to their respective opponents ... And Sania produced upset win over local 6th seed Shuai Zhang in one-sided match, 62 62 ... So with this win over #91 player Sania is in quarter-final where she meet 2nd seed and #58 experienced Thai player Tamarine Tanasugarn ... In mens doubles 6th seed pair of Sanam and Somi moved into R16 with 64 62 victory ... But Karan and Vishnu lost in STB against Korean pair 61 36 2-10 ... Nirupama and Tara Iyer lost against seeded Chinese pair 46 57 in womens doubles ... In mixed doubles 6th seed pair of Sania and Vishnu turned around defeat into win in tight STB against local Chinese pair of Yan Bai and Shengnan Sun 63 46 12-10 ... In quarter final they r facing 4th seed Chinese Taipei pair of Chia Jung Chuang and Chu-Huan Yi ... Other hand Sanam and Rushmi lost to 7th seed Japanese pair 46 63 3-10.

Our mens volleyball scored very important win over 7 times Asian champion Japan in quarter-final group stage ... Indians started well and won first 2 sets convincingly ... After losing 3rd set they choked up in 4th set to waste 3 match points before losing 4th set ... In decider Indians kept their nerve at important points and made comeback from 4-8 down to complete important victory which will help them to get higher seedings in quarter-final knockout stage ... We defeated Japan 3-2, 25-20 25-19 21-25 26-28 15-13.

In women archery top 3 archers broke previous Asian games record in qualifying and team event Korea bettered their own game record ... In individual standing in top 5 r Korean archers but on 3rd position is North Korean archer ... Deepika Kumari qualified for 7th position, otherwise disappointing standing for our other archers ... Rimil Buriuly on 18th position ... Bombayla Devi Laishram and Dola Banerjee qualified on 28th and 29th position respectively.

In Golf we had poor outing ... Our all 3 golfers scored +2 score ... So currently India is on 4th position with +10 but 5 strokes behind 3rd place Thailand ... In individual round Rashid Khan is also slipped to 4th position ... He is 3 under and 2 stroke behind Thai player.

In womens hockey we thrashed Thailand team 13-0 to scored one of our biggest victory.

In squash higher ranked Saurav Ghosal defeated Siddharth Suchde in straight sets 11-6 11-6 11-7 to moved into semis ... In the semis he is facing top-seed Malaysian Mohamad Azlan Iskandar ... Dipika lost to Malaysian WR # 1 Nicole David, 8-11 11-7 6-11 4-11 and Joshana lost after winning first 2 sets against Malaysian Wee Wern Low, 11-7 11-9 8-11 9-11 3-11.

In chess team events our men team is on top spot after 2 rounds with 7.5 pts and women team event we r on 3rd place with 6 pts ... Too early to say anything about the medals.

In womens volleyball we comfortably defeated Maldives 3-0, 25-6 25-7 25-6.

In snooker singles Aditya Mehta reached into semis scoring hard fought win over Singapore's Boon Chin Ang 4-3, 70-13 0-79 74-8 58-71 54-77 72-8 85-39 ... In semis he is facing Hong Kong player Ka Chun Marco Fu ... Before this Aditya scored victory over Chinese Taipei's player Yu-Lun Wu 4-2 to moved into quarter-final, 67-39 49-69 74-42 16-69 72-0 69-37 ... But Pankaj Advani lost against top Chinese player Junhui Ding 1-4, 100-11 0-86 84-1 88-0 105-7.

Rowing - Men's Single Sculls Final
Gold - Bajrang Lal Takhar (IND) 7:04.78
Silver - Ming Hui Wang (TPE) 7:07.33
Bronze - Haeider Hamarasheid (IRQ) 7:10.10

Rowing - Men's Eight Final
Gold - China 5:37.44
Silver - India 5:49.50
Bronze - Uzbekistan 5:55.96

Rowing - Women's Pair Final
Gold - China (Zhengping Sun & Hong Lin) 7:22.06
Silver - Kazakhstan (Oxana Nazarova & Svetlana Germanovich) 7:35.13
Bronze - India (Pratima Puhana & Pramila Prava Minz) 7:47.50

Shooting - Men's Trap Team
Gold - Kuwait 352
Silver - Lebanon 351
Bronze - India 341