Asian Games 2018

At the 18th Asian Games - Jakarta Palembang 2018 - Day 12, Indonesia

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Sailing - 49er FX Women
Gold - Min Kimberly Lim (SGP)/ Rui Qi Cecilia Low (SGP) 15 pts.
Silver - Varsha Gautham (IND)/ Sweta Shervegar (IND) 44 pts.
Bronze - Nichpa Waiwai (THA)/ Kamonchanok Klahan (THA) 46 pts.

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Sailing - Open Laser 4.7
Gold - Muhammad Fauzi Kaman Shah (MAS) 20 pts.
Silver - Jianxiong Wang (CHN) 66 pts.
Bronze - Harshita Tomar (IND) 74 pts.
4. Govind Bairagi (IND) 81 pts.

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Sailing - 49er Men
Gold - Shingen Furuya (JPN)/ Shinji Hachiyama (JPN) 49 pts.
Silver - Bonjin Chae (KOR)/ Dongwook Kim (KOR) 50.5 pts.
Bronze - Varun Ashok Thakkar (IND)/ Kelapanda Chengappa Ganapathy (IND) 53 pts.

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Hockey - Women's Gold Medal Match
India l Japan 1-2 (1-1)
Goal Scored - Neha Goyal (IND) 25' and Minami Shimizu (JPN) 11' PC, Kawamura Motomi (JPN) 44' PC

[SF] India bt China 1-0

[Pool B] India bt Thailand 5-0
[Pool B] India bt Korea 4-1
[Pool B] India bt Kazakhstan 21-0
[Pool B] India bt Indonesia 8-0

Squash - Men's Team
[SF] India l Hong Kong 0-2

[M1] Saurav Ghosal (IND) l Ho Yin Lee (HKG) 7-11, 9-11, 11-13 (41m)
[M2] Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu (IND) l Chun Ming Au (HKG) 9-11, 11-9, 9-11, 3-11 (45m)

Boxing - Men's Middle (75kg)
[SF] Vikas Krishan (IND) l Amankul Abilkhan (KAZ) w/o

Diving - Men's 3m Springboard Final
12. Ramananda Sharma Kongbrailatpam (IND) 325.45 pts.

In Sailing, we had our best haul in the Asian Games with a Silver and two Bronze ... Varsha Gautham and Sweta Shervegar won a Silver in 49er FX Women category behind Singaporean pair ... Varsha and Sweta needed to take the court route for the selection after they didn't selected initially ... But winning this medal they showed that was a wrong decision ... 16 yrs. old Harshita Tomar won a Bronze in Open Laser 4.7 category ... She was well behind when last 6 races were remaining but she responded with top 2 finishes in last these races to win a medal ... Govind Bairagi finished on the 4th position in the same category ... And the 3rd medal won by Varun Thakkar and Kelapanda Chengappa Ganapathy ... They won a Bronze in 49er Men category.

Our women's hockey team failed to secure Tokyo 2020 Olympic quota as they lost the final against Japanese women ... Our women showed scoring ability in their previous matches but they struggled against Japanese women's solid defense ... Japan took an early lead through Shimizu on a penalty corner but Neha Goyal pulled India level in the 2nd quarter ... Japan won another penalty corner in the 3rd quarter and Kawamura made no mistake giving them the lead ... Indian women tried hard and could've equalised in the final minute but Vandana couldn't get her effort on target.

Vikas Krishan gave a walkover to his Kazakh opponent due to right eye injury in the previous match ... He settled with a Bronze.

Our Squash men's team settled with a Bronze after losing both matches to Hong Kong team ... In their last pool match, they suffered uncharacteristic loss against Malaysian team and that cost them a Silver medal.

Ramananda Sharma qualified for the final of Men's 3m Springboard and finished on the 12th position.


We have 13 Gold, 23 Silver and 29 Bronze.

Tennis News

At US Open 2018, New York, USA

[R1] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Artem Sitak (NZL) bt Martin Redlicki (USA)/ Evan Zhu (USA) 64 64
[R1] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Denis Istomin (UZB) l (5) Juan Sebastian Cabal (COL)/ Robert Farah (COL) 36 26
[R1] Jamie Cerretani (USA)/ Leander Paes (IND) l Jeremy Chardy (FRA)/ Fabrice Martin (FRA) 36 46

[R2] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Artem Sitak (NZL) vs (7) Lukasz Kubot (POL)/ Marcelo Melo (BRA)

Mixed Doubles
[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Laura Siegemund (GER) l (7) Katarina Srebotnik (SLO)/ Michael Venus (NZL) 46 46

Turned to be a bad for Indians as only Divij and Artem scored a straight-sets win over American wild-card pair ... Jeevan and Istomin lost convincingly against the 5th seed Colombians ... Lee and Cerretani also failed to overcome the challenges of Frenchmen ... Divij and Artem will be facing the 7th seed Melo and Kubot in the second round.

In MXD, Rohan and his German Laura Siegemund lost in straight sets against the 7th seeds Srebotnik and Michael Venus.

Asian Games 2018

At the 18th Asian Games - Jakarta Palembang 2018 - Day 12, Indonesia

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Athletics - Men's 1500m Final
Gold - Jinson Johnson (IND) 3:44.72s
Silver - Amir Moradi (IRN) 3:45.62s
Bronze - Mohammed Tiouali (BRN) 3:45.88s
4. Manjit Singh (IND) 3:46.57s

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Athletics - Women's 4 x 400m Relay Final
Gold - India (Hima Das, Poovamma Raju Machettira, Saritaben Gayakwad, Vismaya Velluva Koroth) 3:28.72s
Silver - Bahrain 3:30.61s
Bronze - Vietnam 3:33.23s

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Athletics - Men's 4 x 400m Relay Final
Gold - Qatar 3:00.56s AR
Silver - India (Kunhu Muhammed Puthanpurakkal, Dharun Ayyasamy, Muhammed Anas Yahiya, Arokia Rajiv) 3:01.85s
Bronze - Japan 3:01.94s

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Athletics - Women's Discus Throw Final
Gold - Yang Chen (CHN) 65.12m
Silver - Bin Feng (CHN) 64.25m
Bronze - Seema Antil Punia (IND) 62.26m
5. Sandeep Kumari (IND) 54.61m

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Athletics - Women's 1500m Final
Gold - Kalkidan Befkadu (BRN) 4:07.88s
Silver - Tigist Belay (BRN) 4:09.12s
Bronze - Chitra Palakeezh Unnikrishnan (IND) 4:12.56s

Athletics - Men's 5000m Final
6. Lakshmanan Govindan (IND) 14:17.09s

In Athletics, in Men's 1500m final, Jinson Johnson won a gold with below 3 minutes 45 seconds run ... After missing a gold in 800m he made sure to win a gold in 1500m but Manjit Singh finished on the 4th place ... In Women's 4 x 400m Relay final, our women ran terrific run to win a gold beating favorite Bahrain women team by almost 2 seconds ... In Men's 4 x 400m Relay, our men team won a Silver behind Qatar men, who scored new Asian record ... In Women's Discus Throw final, last Asian Games champion Seema Punia threw her best throw in six years to secure bronze medal ... Chitra won a Bronze in Women's 1500m final behind favorites Bahrain women ... In Men's 5000m final, Govindan finished on the 6th position.


We have 13 Gold, 21 Silver and 25 Bronze.

Tennis News

At US Open 2018, New York, USA

[R1] Peter Gojowczyk (GER)/ Purav Raja (IND) l Nikola Mektic (CRO)/ Jurgen Melzer (AUT) 67(2) 46
[R1] (15) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) bt Marcos Baghdatis (CYP)/ Mischa Zverev (GER)46 63 64

[R2] (15) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) vs Matthew Ebden (AUS)/ Jackson Withrow (USA)

Rohan-Edouard scored a comeback win over the tricky pairing of Mischa and Baghdatis ... In the second round, they r facing Ebden and Withrow ... Purav and Gojowczyk lost in straight sets against Melzer and Mektic.

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At $50K+H Rafa Nadal Open 2018, Mallorca, Spain

[R2] (3) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,134) l (WC) Nicola Kuhn (ESP,380) 76(4) 67(2) 46

RamK lost in three sets against talented 18 yrs. old Nicola Kuhn in the second round ... Kuhn made a comeback in the match after losing the first set and only break in the match came in the third set in favour of Kuhn.

Asian Games 2018

At the 18th Asian Games - Jakarta Palembang 2018 - Day 11, Indonesia

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Athletics - Men's Triple Jump Final
Gold - Arpinder Singh (IND) 16.77m
Silver - Ruslan Kurbanov (UZB) 16.62m
Bronze - Shuo Cao (CHN) 16.56
6. Rakesh Babu Arayan Veettil (IND) 16.40m

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Athletics - Women's Heptathlon
Gold - Swapna Barman (IND) 6026 pts.
Silver - Qingling Wang (CHN) 5954 pts.
Bronze - Yuki Yamasaki (JPN) 5873 pts.
4. Purnima Hembram (IND) 5837 pts.

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Athletics - Women's 200m Final
Gold - Edidiong Odiong (BRN) 22.96s
Silver - Dutee Chand (IND) 23.20s
Bronze - Yongli Wei (CHN) 23.27s

Athletics - Women's 20km Walk
4. Khushbir Kaur (IND) 1:35:24s

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Table Tennis - Mixed Doubles
[SF] Sharath Kamal Achanta (IND)/ Manika Batra (IND)l Chuqin Wang (CHN)/ Yingsha Sun (CHN) 9-11, 5-11, 13-11, 4-11, 8-11

[QF] Sharath Kamal Achanta (IND)/ Manika Batra (IND) bt Ji Song An (PRK)/ Hyo Sim Cha (PRK) 4-11, 12-10, 6-11, 11-6, 11-8
[R16] Sharath Kamal Achanta (IND)/ Manika Batra (IND) bt Sangsu Lee (KOR)/ Jihee Jeon (KOR) 11-7, 7-11, 11-8, 10-12, 11-4
[R32] Sharath Kamal Achanta (IND)/ Manika Batra (IND) bt Javen Choong (MAS)/ Karen Lyne Dick (MAS) 11-2 11-5 11-8

In Athletics, Arpinder Singh gave surprising gold in the Triple Jump ... He jumped a modest 16.77m but others failed to jump ahead ... A young Indian, Swapna Barman, won a gold in Heptathlon ... She crossed 6000 points with her good performance in Javelin, 800m and 200m to win a gold comfortably ... Dutee Chand again ran a good race for winning a Silver in Women's 200m ... This was her second silver in this Asian Games ... In Women's 20km Walk, Khushbir Kaur finished on the 4th place but other walkers in the men's and women's events got dis-qualified.

Another historic medal in the table tennis ... Sharath Kamal and Manika Batra won a Bronze in Mixed doubles event ... They lost the semis after giving fighting performance against Chinese team ... Before that, they defeated the top-5 ranked Korean team in the close match.

We have 11 Gold, 20 Silver and 23 Bronze.

Tennis News

At US Open 2018, New York, USA

[R1] Yuki Bhambri (IND,98) l Pierre Hugues Herbert (FRA,74) 36 67(3) 57

Doubles
[R1] Peter Gojowczyk (GER)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Nikola Mektic (CRO)/ Jurgen Melzer (AUT)
[R1] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Artem Sitak (NZL) vs Martin Redlicki (USA)/ Evan Zhu (USA)
[R1] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Denis Istomin (UZB) vs (5) Juan Sebastian Cabal (COL)/ Robert Farah (COL)
[R2] (15) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) vs Marcos Baghdatis (CYP)/ Mischa Zverev (GER)
[R1] Jamie Cerretani (USA)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Jeremy Chardy (FRA)/ Fabrice Martin (FRA)

Mixed Doubles
[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Laura Siegemund (GER) vs (7) Katarina Srebotnik (SLO)/ Michael Venus (NZL)

Yuki participated in the US Open without any match practice as he didn't play after Wimbledon ... So overall expected loss of him ... In the first set, Herbert broke him early to lead 1-4 and 1-5 before winning the first 3-6 ... In the second set, Yuki broke Herbert in the 2nd game to lead 3-0 but lost his serve on the 7th game, 4-3 ... Herbert dominated the tie-break for winning the set ... In the third set, Yuki broke Herbert in the 7th game to lead 5-3 ... But after that Herbert made a strong comeback in the set and broke Yuki in the 10th and 12th games for completing win ... So Yuki's search for his first grand slam main-draw win continues.

Vishnu and Bala failed to make cut ... Purav is playing with Gojowczyk and they r facing Mektic and Melzer ... Divij and Artem r back and playing against American wild-card pair ...Jeevan is playing with Istomin but having a tough match against the 5th seed Colombians ... Rohan is seeded with Edouard and having a tricky match against Mischa and Baghdatis ... Lee is playing with Cerretani and they r facing Frenchmen.

In MXD, only Rohan is playing with German Laura Siegemund ... They r facing the 7th seeds Srebotnik and Michael Venus.

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At $50K+H Rafa Nadal Open 2018, Mallorca, Spain

[R1] (3) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,134) bt (Q) Enzo Couacaud (FRA,560) 63 76(3)

Doubles
[R1] Tuna Altuna (IND)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) l (3) Luca Margaroli (SUI)/ David Vega Hernandez (ESP) 36 26

RamK started with a win but in lot tighter match ... In the doubles, he lost with Altuna against the 3rd seeds.

Asian Games 2018

At the 18th Asian Games - Jakarta Palembang 2018 - Day 10, Indonesia

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Athletics - Men's 800m Final
Gold - Manjit Singh (IND) 1:46.15s
Silver - Jinson Johnson (IND) 1:46.35s
Bronze - Abubaker Abdalla (QAT) 1:46.38s

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Athletics - Mixed 4 x 400m Relay Final
Gold - Bahrain 3:11.89s
Silver - India (Muhammed Anas Yahiya, Poovamma Raju Machettira, Hima Das, Arokia Rajiv) 3:15.71s
Bronze - Kazakhstan 3:19.52s

Athletics - Women's 5000m Final
5. Suriya Loganathan (IND) 15:49.30s
7. Sanjivani Jadhav (IND) 15:52.96s

Athletics - Women's Javelin Throw Final
6. Annu Rani (IND) 53.93m

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Archery - Compound Men's Team Final
India (Rajat Chauhan, Aman Saini, Abhishek Verma) l Korea: 229 (60, 54, 58, 57) - 229 (56, 58, 56, 59) - (shoot-off: India (9, 10, 10) Korea (X, 9, 10)

[SF] India bt Chinese Taipei 231-227
[QF] India bt Philippines 227-226
[R16] India bt Qatar 227-213

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Archery - Compound Women's Team Final
India (Muskan Kirar, Madhumita Kumari, Jyothi Surekha Vennam) l Korea: 228 (59, 56, 58, 55)- 231 (57, 58, 58, 58)

[SF] India bt Chinese Taipei 225-222
[QF] India bt Indonesia 229-224

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Badminton - Women's Singles Final
Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,3) l Tzuying Tai (TPE,1) 13-21 16-21

Kurash - Women 52 kg
Pincky Balhara (IND) l Gulnor Sulaymanova (UZB) 0-10

[SF] Malaprabha Yallappa Jadhav (IND) l Gulnor Sulaymanova (UZB) 0-10

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Table Tennis - Men's Team
[SF] India l Korea 0-3

[M1] Sathiyan Gnanasekaran (IND) l Sangsu Lee (KOR) 11-9, 9-11, 3-11, 3-11
[M2] Sharath Kamal Achanta (IND) l Young Sik Jeoung (KOR) 9-11, 9-11, 11-6, 11-7, 8-11
[M3] Anthont Amalraj (IND) l Woojin Jang (KOR) 5-11, 7-11, 11-4, 7-11

In Athletics, we repeated 1 and 2 in Men's 800m after 1951 games ... After 36 yrs. we managed to win a Gold in this event ... Manjit Singh ran a race of his life to win a gold beating our current national champion and record holder Jinson Johnson ... In Mixed 4 x 400m Relay final, we won our first medal behind a strong Bahrain team ... We finished in the second position with a good run behind winners ... Our players failed to win a medal under Women's 5000m and Women's Javelin Throw.

In Compound Archery, we missed a huge opportunity of winning two golds in team event ... Our men team started solidly taking 4 pts. lead after 6 arrows but they had a poor second set of 6 arrows and Koreans equalized ... Again they took 2 pts to lead after 18 arrows but failed to score 10 in the final arrows ... Our last two arrows were 9 pts., if one of the arrows hit 10 then we would win a gold ... After final arrow, the score was 229-227 in our favor and Korean asked for rechecking/ recounting ... Koreans increased 2 points as two of their 9s changed to 10s, other hand Indian didn't get any points ... So score tied to 229-229, in the shoot-off, both teams scored 29 pts. but Korean had one bulls-eye shot which gave a gold to them ... And the Indian team settled to silver ... Our Women also missed chance as they started with a lead ... After 18 arrows both teams were 173-173 but our women struggled in the final 6 arrows and lost gold to Korea.

Sindhi failed to challenge WR #1 Tzuying Tai and won a silver as runner-up.

In Kurash Women 52 category, our Pincky Balhara and Malaprabha Jadhav won a silver and a bronze respectively ... Both players lost their matches against Uzbek girl, Gulnor Sulaymanova.

The first time we won a medal in the table tennis at Asian Games ... In the quarters, our men's team scored an upset win over higher ranked Japanese team to secure medal ... In the semis. they lost a close match against superior Korean players after giving fight ... Really happy for a veteran Sharath Kamal Achanta , who won a medal in his last Asian Games.

We have 9 Gold, 19 Silver and 22 Bronze.

Asian Games 2018

At the 18th Asian Games - Jakarta Palembang 2018 - Day 9, Indonesia

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Athletics - Men's Javelin Throw Final
Gold - Neeraj Chopra (IND) 88.06m NR
Silver - Qizhen Liu (CHN) 82.22m
Bronze - Arshad Nadeem (PAK) 80.75m
8. Shivpal Singh (IND) 74.11m

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Athletics - Women's Long Jump Final
Gold - Thi Thu Thao Bui (VIE) 6.55m
Silver - Neena Varakil (IND) 6.51m
Bronze - Xiaoling Xu (CHN) 6.50m
10. Nayana James (IND) 6.14m

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Athletics - Men's 400m Hurdles Final
Gold - Abderrahman Samba (QAT) 47.66s GR
Silver - Dharun Ayyasamy (IND) 48.96s NR
Bronze - Takatoshi Abe (JPN) 49.12s
5. Santhosh Kumar Tamilarasan (IND) 49.66s

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Athletics - Women's 3000m Steeplechase Final
Gold - Winfred Yavi (BRN) 9:36.52s
Silver - Sudha Singh (IND) 9:40.03s
Bronze - Thi Oanh Nguyen (VIE) 9:43.83s
11. Chinta (IND) 10:26.21s

Athletics - Women's 400m Hurdles Final
4. Anu Raghavan (IND) 56.92s
T5. Jauna Murmu (IND) 57.48s

Athletics - Men's 3000m Steeplechase Final
8. Shankar Lal Swami (IND) 8:43.43s

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Badminton - Women's Singles
[SF] Saina Nehwal (IND,10) l Tzuying Tai (TPE,1) 17-21 14-21
[SF] Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,3) bt Akane Yamaguchi (JPN,2) 21-17 15-21 21-10

[QF] Saina Nehwal (IND,10) bt Intanon Ratchanok (THA,4) 21-18 21-16
[QF] Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,3) bt Jindapol Nitchaon (THA,11) 21-11 16-21 21-14

[R16] Saina Nehwal (IND,10) bt Fitriani (INA,40) 21-6 21-14
[R16] Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,3) bt Gregoria Mariska Tunjung (INA,22) 21-12 21-15

[R32] Saina Nehwal (IND,10) bt Soraya Aghaeihajiagha (IRI,280) 21-7 21-9
[R32] Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,3) bt Thi Trang Vu (VIE,52) 21-10 12-21 23-21

In Athletics, we had a gold and three silvers on the 9th day ... In Men's Javelin Throw, a young Neeraj Chopra shattered a national record with a throw of 88.06m to win a gold in men's Javelin Throw ... He is showing tremendous consistency in his performance, which simply tells us volumes about his hard work! ... He was way ahead of the second place Chinese ... In Women's Long Jump, Neena Varakil jumped 6.51m to win a Silver ... All top-3 jumpers were within 5 centimeters ... In Men's 400m Hurdles, a young Dharun Ayyasamy created a national record after running inside 49 seconds to win a silver ... In Women's 3000m Steeplechase, Sudha Singh won a silver with a superb run behind favorite Winfred Yavi ... Anu Raghavan finished on the 4th position in Women's 400m Hurdles

In badminton, Sindhu and Saina created history as both become first Indian shuttlers to win Asian Games medal in the individual category ... Saina lost in straight games against WR #1 Tzuying Tai in straight games, so she won a bronze ... Sindhu has reached to the final with three games win over WR #2 Akane Yamaguchi and having a chance of a gold in the match against Tzuying Tai .

We have 8 Gold, 13 Silver and 20 Bronze.

Golf News

At €1M Czech Masters 2018, Prague, Czech Republic (European Tour)

T7 Gaganjeet Bhullar (IND) 68 71 70 66 -1 € 27,500

Gaganjeet scored a superb six-under final round for another top-10 finish on the European tour ... He scored an eagle, five birdies and a bogey in this round to give himself a strong finish.

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At $9M The Northern Trust 2018, Paramus, New Jersey, USA (PGA Tour)

T71 Anirban Lahiri (IND) 71 71 75 68 +1 $17,730.00

Anirban struggled on this course and he managed below PAR-under round in the last round ... He finished the tournament on 1 over and outside top-70 in the standings.

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At $2.25M CP Women's Open 2018, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada (LPGA Tour)

T41 Aditi Ashok (IND) 67 74 74 68 -5 $10,541

Aditi end tournament with four under round, but her two over second and third rounds cost her top-25 finish.

Asian Games 2018

At the 18th Asian Games - Jakarta Palembang 2018 - Day 8, Indonesia

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Equestrian - Eventing Individual
Gold - Yoshiaki Oiwa (JPN) (Horse - Bart Ljra) 22.70 penalty pts.
Silver - Fouaad Mirza (IND) (Horse - Seignuer Medicott) 26.40 penalty pts.
Bronze - Alex Hua Tian (CHN) (Horse - PSH Convivial) 27.10 penalty pts.

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Equestrian - Eventing Team
Gold - Japan (Takayuki Yumira, Kenta Hiranaga, Ryuzo Kitajima, Yoshiaki Oiwa) 82.40 penalty pts.
Silver - India (Rakesh Kumar, Ashish Malik, Jitender Singh, Fouaad Mirza) 121.30 penalty pts.
Bronze - Thailand (Arinadtha Chavatanont, Preecha Khunjan, Korntawat Samran) 126.70 penalty pts.

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Athletics - Women's 400m Final
Gold - Salwa Naser (BRN) 50.09s GR
Silver - Hima Das (IND) 50.79s NR
Bronze - Elina Mikhina (KAZ) 52.63s
4. Nirmla (IND) 52.96s

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Athletics - Men's 400m Final
Gold - Abdalelah Hassan (QAT) 44.89s
Silver - Muhammed Anas Yahiya (IND) 45.69s
Bronze - Ali Khamis (BRN) 45.70s
4. Arokia Rajiv (IND) 45.84s

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Athletics - Women's 100m Final
Gold - Edidiong Odiong (BRN) 11.30s
Silver - Dutee Chand (IND) 11.32s
Bronze - Yongli Wei (CHN) 11.33s

Athletics - Men's Long Jump Final
6. Sreeshankar (IND) 7.95m

Athletics - Men's 10,000m Final
Lakshmanan Govindan (IND) 29:44.91s DQ

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Bridge - Men's Team
Bronze - India (Jaggy Shivdasani, Rajeshwar Tewari, Ajay Khare, Raju Tolani, Debabrata Majumder, Sumit Mukherjee)

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Bridge - Mixed Team
Bronze - India (Kiran Nadar, Hema Deora, Himani Khandelwal, Bachiraju Satyanarayana, Gopinath Manna, Rajeev Khandelwal)

In Equestrian Eventing Individual, Fouaad Mirza lifted a silver with 26.40 penalty points with a good jumping skill with his horse, Seignuer Medicott ... His riding and fewer penalty points helped Indian team in Eventing Team event ... Indian team won a silver with 121.30 penalty points.

In Athletics, 18 yrs. old Hima Das continues to rise ... She won a silver in Women's 400m with a new national record of 50.79s and with that she became first Indian women to run under 51 seconds ... In the heat also she bettered national record and clocked 51.00s ... Other India Nirmla finished on the 4th position ... In Men's 400m, another young athlete, Muhammed Anas, won a silver with a timing of 45.69s ... Here also, our Arokia Rajiv finished in the 4th position ... In Women's 100m final, Dutee Chand surprised favorites Chinese and Bahrain sprinters with a magnificent run to win a silver ... In Men's 10,000m, Lakshmanan Govindan finished with the 3rd best timing of 29:44.91s ... But he lost bronze after being disqualified for stepping out of the track, a tough luck ... In Men's Long Jump final, 19 yrs. old Sreeshankar finished on the 6th position with the 7.95m jump.

In Bridge, our men and mixed teams lifted a bronze in their respective categories.

We have 7 Gold, 10 Silver and 19 Bronze.

Tennis News

At $50K+H Rafa Nadal Open 2018, Mallorca, Spain

[Q1] (WC) Adil Kalyanpur (IND,1084) l (5) Hugo Grenier (FRA,363) 57 16

[R1] (3) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,134) vs Qualifier

RamK is playing at $50K challenger in the name of Rafa ... Adil received a wild-card for the qualifying but top-375 Frenchman proved too strong for him in the second set.

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At $15K Spain F13 Futures 2017, Sta. Margarida Montbui

[R1] (1) Ronnie Schneider (USA)/ Karunuday Singh (IND) bt Filip Rikl (CZE)/ Patrik Rikl (CZE) 75 63
[QF] (1) Ronnie Schneider (USA)/ Karunuday Singh (IND) bt Chayanon Kaewsuto (THA)/ Patcharapol Kawin (THA) 75 63
[SF] (1) Ronnie Schneider (USA)/ Karunuday Singh (IND) bt (3) Pruchya Isaro (THA)/ Ryota Tanuma (JPN) 64 62

Doubles Final
(1) Ronnie Schneider (USA)/ Karunuday Singh (IND) bt (2) Thomas Fancutt (AUS)/ Chanchai Sookton-Eng (THA) 57 61 10-5

Karunuday lifted the doubles title with his American partner, Ronnie Schneider ... They scored a comeback victory over the 2nd seeds in the match tie-break.

Asian Games 2018

At the 18th Asian Games - Jakarta Palembang 2018 - Day 7, Indonesia

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Athletics - Men's Shot Put
Gold - Tajinderpal Singh Toor (IND) 20.75m GR
Silver - Yang Liu (CHN) 19.52m
Bronze - Ivan Ivanov (KAZ) 19.40m

Athletics - Women's 10,000m Final
6. Suriya Loganathan (IND) 32:42.08s
9. Sanjivani Jadhav (IND) 33:13.06s

Athletics - Women's Hammer Throw Final
5. Sarita Romit Singh (IND) 62.03m

PC to Dipika Pallikal twitter handle

Squash - Women's Singles
[SF] (3/4) Dipika Pallikal Karthik (IND) l (1) Nicol Ann David (MAS) 7-11, 9-11, 6-11 (32m)

[QF] (3/4) Dipika Pallikal Karthik (IND) bt (5/8) Misaki Kobayashi (JPN) 11-5, 11-6, 11-8 (23m)
[R16] (3/4) Dipika Pallikal Karthik (IND) bt Yeni Siti Rohmah (INA) 11-6, 11-5, 11-5 (20m)

PC to Joshna Chinappa twitter handle

Squash - Women's Singles
[SF] (3/4) Joshana Chinappa (IND) l (5/8) Sivasangari Subramaniam (MAS) 10-12, 6-11, 11-9, 7-11 (41m)

[QF] (3/4) Joshana Chinappa (IND) bt (5/8) Joey Chan (HKG) 11-5, 12-10, 5-11, 12-10 (46m)
[R16] (3/4) Joshana Chinappa (IND) bt (9/16) Jemyca Aribado (PHI) 11-2, 11-8, 12-10 (25m)

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Squash - Men's Singles
[SF] (1) Saurav Ghosal (IND) l (3/4) Leo Au (HKG) 12-10, 13-11, 6-11, 5-11, 6-11 (76m)

[QF] (1) Saurav Ghosal (IND) bt (5/8) Harinder Pal Sandhu (IND) 9-11, 11-7, 11-7, 11-7 (70m)
[R16] (1) Saurav Ghosal (IND) bt (9/16) Tayyab Aslam (PAK) 11-5, 11-3, 11-13, 11-8 (47m)
[R32] (1) Saurav Ghosal (IND) bt Shamil Wakeel (SRI) 11-2, 11-2, 11-1 (21m)

Bowling - Men's Team of Six
13. India 7658 pts.

In Athletics, Tajinder Singh threw 20.75M throw and bagged a Gold medal in the men's Shotput and also created new Asian Games men's shot put record ... He was more than one meter ahead of the second place Chinese shot-putter ... In other events, Our athletes failed to raise their performance and ended outside medals in 10k women and the hammer throw women.

In the squash, our all three top squash players lost in the singles semis to confirm bronze medals ... Saurav and Joshana lost against lower ranked opponents and Dipika lost against former WR #1 Nicol David.

In bowling, our team finished on the 13th place.

We have 7 Gold, 5 Silver and 17 Bronze.

Tennis News

At $691K Winston-Salem Open 2018, North Carolina, USA

Doubles Final
(WC) Jamie Cerretani (USA)/ Leander Paes (IND) l (2) Jean-Julien Rojer (NED)/ Horia Tecau (ROU) 46 26

Leander and Cerretani failed to complete this terrific run into the title win ... They lost in straight sets against the 2nd seeds Rojer and Tecau.

Asian Games 2018

At the 18th Asian Games - Jakarta Palembang 2018 - Day 6, Indonesia

PC to Sachin Tendulkar twitter handle

Rowing - Men's Quadruple Sculls
Gold - India (Sawarn Singh, Dattu Bhokanal, Om Prakash, Sukhmeet Singh) 6:17.13s
Silver - Indonesia 6:20.58s
Bronze - Thailand 6:22.41s

PC to Lakshya FB page

Rowing - Men's Lightweight Double Sculls
Gold - Masayuki Miyaura (JPN)/ Masahiro Takeda (JPN) 7:01.70s
Silver - Byunghoon Kim (KOR)/ Minhuk Lee (KOR) 7:03.22s
Bronze - Rohit Kumar (IND)/ Bhagwan Singh (IND) 7:04.61s

PC to Lakshya FB page

Rowing - Men's Lightweight Single Sculls
Gold - Hyunsu Kim (KOR) 7:12.86s
Silver - Hin Chun Chiu (HKG) 7:14.16s
Bronze - Dushyant (IND) 7:18.76s

Rowing - Men's Lightweight Eight
4. India 6:15.00s

Rowing - Women's Four
6. India (Sanjukta Dung Dung, Annu, Navneet Kaur, Yamini Singh) 7:43.49s

PC to Divij's FB page

Tennis - Men's Doubles Gold Medal match
Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) bt Aleksandr Bublik (KAZ)/ Denis Yevseyev (KAZ)

[SF] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) bt Uesugi Kaito (JPN)/ Shimabukuro Sho (JPN) 46 63 10-8
[QF] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) bt Chengpeng Hsieh (TPE)/ Tsung-Hua Yang (TPE) 63 57 10-1
[R16] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) bt Kadchapanan Nuttanon (THA)/ Wishaya Trongcharoenchaikul (THA) 63 61
[R32] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) bt David Agung Susanto (INA)/ Ignatius Anthony Susanto (INA) 63 63

PC to Prajnesh's FB page

Tennis - Men's Singles
[SF] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,161) l Denis Istomin (UZB,75) 26 26

[QF] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,161) bt Soonwoo Kwon (KOR,273) 67(2) 64 76(6)
[R16] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,161) bt Nam Hoang Ly (VIE,515) 63 57 64
[R32] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,161) bt M Rifqi Fitriadi (INA,1486) 62 60

Kabbadi - Women's Team Gold Medal match
India l Iran 24-27

PC to Heena Sidhu FB page

Shooting - 10m Air Pistol Women
Gold - Qian Wang (CHN) 240.3 pts. GR
Silver - Minjung Kim (KOR) 237.6 pts.
Bronze - Heena Sidhu (IND) 219.2 pts.
5. Manu Bhaker (IND) 176.2 pts.

Shooting - 300m Standard Rifle Men
4. Harjinder Singh (IND) 560 pts.
5. Amit Kumar (IND) 559 pts.

Artistic Gymnastics - Women's Balance Beam Final
5. Dipa Karmakar (IND) 12.500 pts.

Swimming - Men's 50m Breaststroke Final
7. Sandeep Sejwal (IND) 27.98sec

In Rowing, after yesterday's disappointment, our rowers lifted three medals ... In Men's Quadruple Sculls, Sawarn Singh, Dattu Bhokanal, Om Prakash and Sukhmeet Singh won a gold ... In Men's Lightweight Double Sculls, Rohit Kumar and Bhagwan Singh won a bronze and in Men's Lightweight Single Sculls, Dushyant won a bronze.

In the tennis, Rohan and Divij gave a first gold medal in the tennis of this Asian games ... In the final, they defeated Kazakh pair comfortably ... Prajnesh lost easily against Istomin in the semis, so with that, he also confirmed a bronze.

In shooting under Women's 10m Air Pistol event, Heena Sidhu lifted a bronze ... She was an early behind but raised her shooting to win a medal ... Young Manu Bhaker finished on the 5th position, this tournament turned out to be a learning experience for our talented shooter ... Manu is capable of winning the Olympic medal ... Before that in the qualifying, Manu finished on the 3rd position with 574 pts. and Heena finished on the 7th position with 571 pts.
In 300m Standard Rifle Men, our both shooters, Harjinder Singh and Amit Kumar, finished outside medal as they finished on the 4th and the 5th respectively.

Our disappointing performance continued in Kabaddi ... In the women final Iran defeated Indian women in a close match ... Iran becomes the first team to beat India in women's kabbadi.

Dipa Karmakar finished in the 5th position in the final of Women's Balance Beam.

In Men's 50m Breaststroke final, Sandeep Sejwal finished on the 7th position,

We have 6 Gold, 5 Silver and 14 Bronze.

Tennis News

At US Open 2018, New York, USA

[R1] Yuki Bhambri (IND,98) vs Pierre Hugues Herbert (FRA,74)

The US Open draw is out and Yuki having another favorable draw in the grand slam ... He is facing Frenchman Pierre Hugues Herbert, in their earlier meeting at Maharashtra ATP 2018 tournament, Yuki was lost in close three sets ... But this time I am not sure about Yuki's match fitness as he skipped complete US hard court season after Wimbledon due to injury.

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At $691K Winston-Salem Open 2018, North Carolina, USA

[SF] (WC) Jamie Cerretani (USA)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK)/ Artem Sitak (NZL) 64 26 10-8

[F] (WC) Jamie Cerretani (USA)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs (2) Jean-Julien Rojer (NED)/ Horia Tecau (ROU)

Leander and Cerretani r in the final with another match tie-break win over Aisam and Artem ... In the final, they r facing the 2nd seeds Rojer and Tecau.

Asian Games

At the 18th Asian Games - Jakarta Palembang 2018 - Day 5, Indonesia

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Shooting - Men's Double Trap
Gold - Hyunwoo Shin (KOR) 74 hits
Silver - Shardul Vihan (IND) 73 hits
Bronze - Hamad Ali Al Maari (QAT) 53 hits

Shooting - Women's Double Trap
6. Shreyasi Singh (IND) 121 hits
7. Varsha Varman (IND) 120 hits

P.C. to Ankita Raina FB page

Tennis - Women's Singles
[SF] (5) Ankita Raina (IND,189) l (1) Shuai Zhang (CHN,34)46 67(6)

[QF] (5) Ankita Raina (IND,189) bt Eudice Wong Chong (HKG,612) 64 61
[R16] (5) Ankita Raina (IND,189) bt Eri Hozumi (JPN,243) 61 62
[R32] (5) Ankita Raina (IND,189) bt Beatrice Gumulya (INA,753) 62 64

Kabaddi - Men's Team
[SF] India l Iran 18-27

Artistic Gymnastics - Women's Vault Final
7. Aruna Budda Reddy (IND) 12.775 pts.
8. Pranati Nayak (IND) 12.650 pts.

Swimming - Men's 200m Backstroke Final
6. Srihari Nataraj (IND) 2:02.83sec NR

Swimming - Men's 50m Butterfly Final
8. Virdhawal Khade (IND) 24.48sec

In shooting under Men's Double Trap, 15 yrs. old Shardul Vihan won a silver ... He lost by a single hit against experienced Korean shooter ... Before that in the qualifying, Shardul hits 141 for topping it.
In the Women's Double Trap, our shooters Shreyasi Singh and Varsha Varman finished on the 6th and the 7th positions.

In the tennis, Ankita wins her first medal in Asian games ... She lost the semis to top-35 Chinese girl Shuai Zhang after giving a credible fight ... Before that Ankita scored some confident wins ... For reaching the semis helped her to grab a bronze.

In Kabaddi, the first time we failed to win a gold in men's event ... After losing to South Korea in the group we faced Iran in the semis ... Iranian team proved a better defensive unit and we lost easily for getting a bronze.

In the Artistic Gymnastics women's vault final, our two girls finished in top-8, Aruna on the 7th and Pranati on the 8th position.

In the Swimming Men's 50m Butterfly, In heat Veerdhawal clocked new national record of 24.09sec to qualify for the final but ended in the 8th position in the final ... Srihari Nataraj finished on the 6th position in Men's 200m backstroke final after creating a new national record of 2:02.83sec.


We have 4 Gold, 4 Silver and 10 Bronze.

Tennis News

At $691K Winston-Salem Open 2018, North Carolina, USA

[R1] (WC) Jamie Cerretani (USA)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt (3) Ben McLachlan (JPN)/ Jan-Lennard Struff (GER) 64 36 11-9
[QF] (WC) Jamie Cerretani (USA)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt Maximo Gonzalez (ARG)/ Marc Lopez (ESP) 61 16 10-8

[SF] (WC) Jamie Cerretani (USA)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK)/ Artem Sitak (NZL)

Lee and Cerretani in the semis of the Winston-Salem Open and they r playing against Aisam and Artem ... Yesterday, they played two matches and won both in the match tie-break ... In the first round, they scored an upset win over the 3rd seeds in a close match ... In the quarters, they defeated Gonzalez and Lopez in another close match tie-break.

Asian Games 2018

At the 18th Asian Games - Jakarta Palembang 2018 - Day 4, Indonesia

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Shooting - 25m Pistol Women
Gold - Rahi Sarnobat (IND) 34 pts. GR (shoot-off)
Silver - Naphaswan Yangpaiboon (THA) 34 pts. GR
Bronze - Minjung Kim (KOR) 29 pts.
6. Manu Bhaker (IND) 16 pts.

Wrestling - Men's Greco-Roman 87 kg - Bronze medal
Harpreet Singh (IND) l Azamat Kustubayev (KAZ) 3-6 (Decision by Points)

[SF] Harpreet Singh (IND) l 0-10 (Victory by Technical Superiority, Period 1 - 38 secs.)
[QF] Harpreet Singh (IND) bt Masato Sumi (JPN) 8-0 (Victory by Technical Superiority, Period 1 - 1:30 mins.)
[R16] Harpreet Singh (IND) bt Heageun Park (KOR) 4-1 (Decision by Points)

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Wushu - Women's Sanda - 60kg
[SF] Roshibina Devi Naorem (IND) l Yingying Cai (CHN) 0-1

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Wushu - Men's Sanda - 56kg
[SF] Santosh Kumar (IND) l Truong Giang Bui (VIE) 0-2

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Wushu - Men's Sanda - 60kg
[SF] Surya Bhanu Partap Singh (IND) l Erfan Ahangarian (IRI) 0-2

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Wushu - Men's Sanda - 65kg
[SF] Narender Grewal (IND) l Foroud Zafari (IRI) 0-2

Wushu - Men's Taijiquan and Taijijian All-Round Final
4. Gyandash Singh Mayanglambam (IND) 9.70 pts.

Artistic Gymnastics - Women's Team Final
7. India 138.050 pts. (Dipa Karmakar, Pranati Nayak, Aruna Budda Reddy, Pranati Das, Mandira Chowdhury)

Swimming - Men's 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay Final
8. India 3:25.34sec (Aaron Dsouza, Anshul Kothari, Sajan Prakash, Virdhawal Khade)

In shooting under 25m Pistol Women event, Rahi Sarnobat won a gold in a close shoot-off with Thai shooter Yangpaiboon ... Rahi won it in the third shoot-off as both shooters were missing multiple shots ... Both shooters created game record of 34 hits but in the shoot-off both were off the mark ... Rahi also becomes the first Indian women shooter to win gold in a women's event at the Asian Games ... As before this, our women won 4 silver and 6 bronze medals ... Young Manu Bhaker finished on the 6th as she struggled to score in the final but before that she shot brilliantly in the qualifications to qualify for the final in the top spot ... Manu's score of 593 wasn't just a Games Record but it's also one point above the Olympic Games Record of 592 ... Rahi qualified for the final on the 7th position with 580.

In Men's Greco-Roman 87 kg category, Harpreet lost close bronze medal bout against Kazakh wrestler Kustubayev ... Before that, he defeated last Asian games silver medalist Japanese wrestler, Masato Sumi, comfortably but lost convincingly in the semis against last Asian games gold medalist Rustam Assakalov.

In Wushu, our four players lost in the semi-final of Sanda in their weight categories ... So with that we assured 4 more bronze medals ... Impressed with young 17 yrs. old Roshibina Devi in Women's 60 kg category ... Gyandash Singh Mayanglambam finished on the 4th position in Men's Taijiquan and Taijijian All-Round event final.

In the Artistic Gymnastics women's team final, our girls finished on the creditable 7th position.

In the Swimming Men's 4x100m freestyle relay, our team finished on the last position clocked 3:25.34sec timing.

Indian men's hockey team breaks their own 86 year old record of biggest margin ... Previous best was 24-1 and to day they defeated Hong Kong team 26-0.

We have 4 Gold, 3 Silver and 8 Bronze.

Asian Games 2018

At the 18th Asian Games - Jakarta Palembang 2018 - Day 3, Indonesia

P.C. to Sai Media twitter handle

Shooting - 10m Air Pistol Men
Gold - Saurabh Choudhary (IND) 240.7 pts. GR
Silver - Tomoyuki Matsuda (JPN) 239.7 pts.
Bronze - Abhishek Verma (IND) 219.3 pts.

P.C. to Sai Media twitter handle

Shooting - 50m Rifle 3 Positions Men
Gold - Zicheng Hui (CHN) 453.3 pts.
Silver - Sanjeev Rajput (IND) 452.7 pts.
Bronze - Takayuki Matsumoto (JPN) 441.4 pts.

Shooting - Trap Mixed Team
6. India (Shreyasi Singh and Lakshay Sheoran) 16/25

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Wrestling - Women's Freestyle 68 kg - Bronze medal
Divya Kakran (IND) bt Wenling Chen (TPE) 10-0 (Victory by Technical Superiority, Period 1 - 1:29sec.)

[QF] Divya Kakran (IND) l Tumentsetseg Sharkhuu (MNG) 1-11 (Victory by Technical Superiority)

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Sepaktakraw - Men's Team Regu
[SF] India l Thailand 0-2 (Sandeep Kumar, Akash Yumnam, Henary Singh Wahengbam, Harish Kumar)

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Swimming - Men's 50m Freestyle
4. Virdhawal Khade (IND) 22.47sec.

In shooting under Men's 10m Air Pistol event, 16 yrs. old Saurabh Choudhary wins a gold beating World Champions, Olympic medalists and Olympians ... This was Saurabh's first senior international event ... He was behind double World Champion Tomoyuki Matsuda but Matsuda had poor, 8.9 pts., second lost shot and Saurabh took an advantage with hitting 10.2 pts. shot to lead ... Matsuda hit 10.3 pts on the final shot and Saurabh responded with 10.4 pts. shot to deserving gold medal ... His senior caompatriot Abhishek Verma won a bronze with 219.3 pts. ... Before that in the qualifying, Saurabh qualified on the top position with 586 pts. and Abhishek qualified for the 6th poisition with 580 pts.
In Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions final, an experienced Sanjeev Rajput won a silver, he becomes only third athlete from India to claim a shooting medal at four different Asian Games ... In the final, most of the time Sanjeev was leading but in the standing he hit 8.4 pts. shot and that put him away from a gold medal ... He won a silver with 452.7 pts. ... Before that in the qualifying, he qualified in the 7th position with 1160 pts.

In women's freestyle wrestling, Divya Kakran won a bronze beating Taipei wrestler comfortably in the medal match ... Before that, she lost in her first match against Mongolian superior wrestler 1-11.

India collects their first medal in sepaktakraw in Asian Games history ... They lifted a bronze after losing the semis against Thai team in Men's Team Regu.

In swimming, Virdhawal Khade missed a medal by whisker in Men's 50m Freestyle ... He came in the 4th position as losing a bronze by 0.01 second ... In the heat, he clocked a new nation record in the Men's 50m Freestyle with the timing of 22.43sec.

Yesterday, Indian men's hockey team defeated Indonesian team 17-0 and today, Indian women's team defeated Kazakhstan women's team 21-0 in one-sided match.

We have 3 Gold, 3 Silver and 4 Bronze.