Asian Games News
At 2010 Asian Games, Guangzhou, China

Today India won 1 Gold and 2 Bronze medals ... HIGH of the day was Somdev winning India's first-ever tennis singles Gold medal and LOW of the day Indian hockey side losing to Malaysia in semi-final.

What a player is Somdev Kishore Devvarman ... He again showed whenever he play for the country he is giving more than 100% ... In the final he demolished WR #40 Uzbek Denis Istomin 61 62 ... In both sets Somi lost his serve once but he broke Istomi's serve 7 times in the match, 4 times in first set and 3 times in second ... Only once Istomin managed to hold his serve and that was in second set ... With this win Somdev became first Indian player to won Gold in tennis singles and he also became double gold medalists as yesterday he won doubles Gold with Sanam Singh ... So now Somdev is Asian Games and Commonweath Games tennis singles Gold medalist.

But then we had horrible result in hockey ... After Pakistan defeated South Koreans in tie-break India had good chance to make Indo_pak gold medal match in hockey but that didn't happen ... Indians started slowly against Malaysians ... Malaysia scored first goal but we equalized on hooter through PC conversion from Sandeep Singh ... In second half we were up immediately when Tushar Khandekar scored but Malaysian made it 2-all ... Then Rajpal Singh scored goal to gave Indian side 3-2 lead but again we take goal in dying moment of 70 mins to make it 3-all ... In extra-time Malaysia's Rahim Mohammad Amin scored golden goal in end of extra-time to gave memorable win and now Indian side will play against South Koreans for Bronze medal match.

In archery Women's Individual Deepika Kumari failed to won medal ... In first round she and Rimil Buriuly won their first round matches comfortably ... In R16 Deepika Kumari scored victory over Indonesian Erwina Safitri 7-3 but Rimil Buriuly lost her match against Chinese Taipei archer Ya Ting Tan 2-6 ... In quarter final Deepika Kumari defeated Chinese Taipei archer Ya Ting Tan 6-4 ... But in the semi final she lost against Korean WR #1 Okhee Yun 6-2 but surprisingly Deepika Kumari her Bronze medal match against North Korean archer Un Sil Kwon 2-6.

In Athletics in Women's Discus Throw Final CWG Gold medalist Krishna Poonia won Bronze medal with throw of 61.94m which she throw on first attempt ... Harwant Kaur finished on fourth with throw of 57.55m ... In Women's Heptathlon India's Pramila Ganapathy Gudandda won Bronze medal with 5415 pts ... Our Susmita Singha Roy finished on fourth position with 5051 pts ... In Men's 4 x 400m Relay India qualified for final with 4th best qualifying time, 3:07.00 ... In Men's 4 x 100m Relay also India qualified for the final with 4th best qualifying time, 39.62s ... In Women's 4 x 100m Relay India qualified for the final with 5th best qualifying time, 45.44s.

In Canoe/Kayak Sprint in Men's Kayak Single 1000m Semifinal India's Bhupender Singh Pundir and Jamesboy Singh Oinam qualified for the final ... Jamesboy also qualified for Men's Canoe Single 200m Final.

In chess Men's Team Round 6 Indian side defeated Qatar 3.5-0.5 ... Harikrishna, Sasikiran Krishnan and Surya Shekhar Ganguly won their match ... This win moved Indian team to 3rd position ... In women's section Indian side defeated Bangladesh 3.5-0.5 ... Esha Karavade, S. Meenakshi and Nisha Mohota won their matches ... India is still on 2nd position behind China.

In Kabaddi in Men's Group A match Indian side scored good win against strong team of Iran 40-24.

In squash in Men's Team Pool B match Indian side defeated South Korea 3-0 to moved into semis but lost against Malaysian side 1-2 to finished on second position ... In semifinal we r facing Pakistan ... In Women's Team Pool B match we lost against Hong Kong side 0-3 so we r playing top-seed Malaysia into semis.

In Men's Greco-Roman our bad performance continued ... Dharmender Dalal lost Bronze medal match against Iraqi wrestler in 120 kg category.

Tennis - Men's Singles
Gold - Somdev Devvarman (IND)
Silver - Denis Istomin (UZB)
Bronze - Go Soeda (JPN) and Tatsuma Ito (JPN)

Athletics - Women's Discus Throw Final
Gold - Yanfeng Li (CHN) 66.18m
Silver - Aimin Song (CHN) 64.04m
Bronze - Krishna Poonia (IND) 61.94m

Athletics - Women's Heptathlon
Gold - Yuliya Tarasova (UZB) 5783 pts
Silver - Yuki Nakata (JPN) 5606 pts
Bronze - Pramila Ganapathy Gudandda (IND) 5415 pts

Tennis - Women's Singles
Gold - Shuai Peng (CHN)
Silver - Akgul Amanmuradova (UZB)
Bronze - Sania Mirza (IND) and Kimiko Date-Krumm (JPN)