Asian Games News
At 2010 Asian Games, Guangzhou, China

In golf on final day our golfers - Rashid Khan, Rahul Bajaj, Abhinav Lohan, Abhijit Singh Chadha - managed PAR score for Team India and that was enough to earned them Silver with 1 stoke ahead of Chinese Taipei ... In individual event Rashid Khan scored final PAR round and remained on -3 ... He remained tied for 4th position and 2 stokes behind Chinese Taipei player Chien Yao Hung.

In sailing Open Match Racing event Indian sailors - Balraj, Trunal Balkrishna Helegaonkar, Atool Sinha, Farokh Tarapore and Shekhar Singh Yadav - won Silver ... They lost final to Japan ... But hats off to Farokh Tarapore for Silver at age of 50 yrs and participating in his 8th Asian games in a row.

In snooker singles Aditya Mehta lost 1-4 against Hong Kong player Ka Chun Marco Fu in semis, 20-62 7-60 68-55 15-59 21-71 ... So another Bronze medal for India in snooker.

In squash Saurav Ghosal lost in semis against top-seed Malaysian Mohamad Azlan Iskandar 1-3, 5-11 11-6 5-11 10-12 ... So another Bronze for us and this time from Squash.

In tennis Sania scored another upset win this time over WR #58 and 2nd seed Thai Tamarine Tanasugarn 62 63 ... Very dominating win to moved into semis ... In semis Sania is facing 3rd seed Uzbek Akgul Amanmuradova ... Somdev scored comfortble win over Uzbek Vaja Uzakov, 61 61, to moved into quarte final ... He will face local 6th seed Ze Zhang ... Karan also moved into semis scoring dominating win over Chinese Taipei's Ti Chen, 60 64 ... In quarter final he is having tough match against top-seed Uzbek Denis Istomin ... In doubles 6th seed Somi and Sanam scored comfortable win over local pair Zhang and Bai 62 64 to moved into semis ... In mixed doubles 6th seed pair of Sania Mirza and Vishnu Vardhan defeated 4th seed Chinese Taipei pair Chia Jung Chuang and Chu-Huan Yi in comeback victory ... They scored 26 64 10-4 win to moved into semis ... In semis they r facing top-seed Thai pair Tamarine Tanasugarn and Sanchai Ratiwatana

In mens volleyball quarter finl group stage India scored very dominting win ove Qatar and almost sure of finished on 2nd position in Group F ... India scored comfortble 3-0 win, 25-15 25-13 25-20.

In hockey group match India scored important win over Pakistan 3-2 ... Match was very fast paced ... Both teams were attacking from the start ... We scored first goal on PC through Sandeep Singh but Pakistan scored immediately in 4th minute through field goal from Rehan Butt ... Then Dharamvir Singh scored good field goal to gave us lead 2-1 at half-time ... In second half Pakistan take advantage of poor defending when they scored goal through Shakeel Abbasi ... But our forwards earned another penalty corner which Sandeep Singh scored ... In end our team well defended to keep advantage.

In boxing Men's 75kg Vijender Singh scored very good win over South Korean boxer Deokjin Cho 13-2 ... Vijender need to learn avoid penalty, in this match also he gave his opponent 2 points after 3 warnings of holding ... In semis Vijener is playing against Iranian boxer Mohammad Sattarpour ... In Men's 52kg category Suranjoy Singh Mayengbam defeated Uzbek Shahriyor Isakov in closely fought bout, 4-2, to moved into semis ... There he will face big challenge from local player Yong Change ... In Mens 46-49kg category Amandeep Singh scored thumping win over Pakistani 11-0 to moved in to quarters ... In quarter final he will face Philipino boxer Victorio Iii Saludar ... But in Men's 69kg Dilbag Singh lost one-sidedly against Turkmenistan boxer Omar Mamedshayev 8-0 in round 16.

In Mens chess team event India defeated Kazakhstan 2.5-1.5 with win from GM Gopal G N against higher ranked GM Vladimirov Yevgeniy ... With this win Indian team remained on top place with 10 pts, now 1.5 pts ahead of Chinese and Iranian teams.

In Womens chess team event India hold China to 2.0-2.0 draw ... They slipped to 4th position with 8 pts, 1.5 pts behind leader Vietnam team.

In womens hockey Indian team defeated Kazakhstan 6-0 with hattrick from Rani.

Indian women volleyball team lost easily against Japanese tem 25-23 25-16 25-17.

Golf - Men's Team
Gold - South Korea -22
Silver - India +10
Bronze - Chinese Taipei +11

Sailing - Open Match Racing
Gold - Japan
Silver - India
Bronze - Korea

Billiards - Men's Snooker Singles
Gold - Ka Chun Marco Fu (HKG)
Silver - Junhui Ding (CHN)
Bronze - Aditya Mehta (IND) and Dechawat Poomjaeng (THA)