Aichi-Nagoya [Japan], September 20 (ANI): India will look so as to add to its medal tally on Day 2 of the Asian Games 2026 on Monday, with taking pictures, blended martial arts and a number of other crew occasions that includes prominently within the schedule.
After opening their marketing campaign with two silver medals in taking pictures on Sunday, India may have one other alternative to achieve the rostrum within the males’s 10m air rifle, the place Himanshu Dhillon, Parth Mane and Rudrankksh Patil will compete in qualification and the crew closing. The particular person closing is scheduled for 9 a.m. IST, topic to qualification, in accordance with ESPN.
Mixed martial artist Suchika Tariyal may also be in motion, taking over Singapore’s Teo Hui Hoon within the ladies’s conventional 60kg semifinal at 8 a.m. Having already assured herself of a medal, Suchika will intention to win her semifinal and advance to the ultimate.
India’s ladies’s hockey crew will face Indonesia of their second Pool B match after starting the event with a 19-0 win over Uzbekistan. The males’s and girls’s kabaddi groups may also start their campaigns, whereas the Indian desk tennis groups are set for 2 matches towards Pakistan.
The day’s motion begins early, with Indian athletes competing throughout smooth tennis, wushu, sepaktakraw, taking pictures and swimming earlier than the schedule strikes into the afternoon with boxing, extra wushu bouts and kabaddi.
The males’s 10m air rifle competitors will probably be one of many predominant medal occasions for India within the morning. Dhillon, Mane and Patil will compete within the particular person qualification spherical, which additionally kinds a part of the crew competitors. The crew closing is scheduled for six:15 a.m., whereas the person closing is about for 9 a.m., topic to qualification.
India may also start its marketing campaign within the males’s and girls’s skeet occasions. Mairaj Khan, Anant Jeet Singh Naruka and Bhavtegh Singh Gill will compete within the males’s particular person skeet and crew occasion, whereas Parinaaz Dhaliwal, Raiza Dhillon and Maheshwari Chauhan will signify India within the ladies’s competitors. Both occasions are scheduled to start at 6:30 a.m. on Day 1 of the respective competitions.
Suchika will tackle Singapore’s Teo Hui Hoon within the ladies’s conventional 60kg semifinal at 8 a.m. The Indian has already secured a medal after defeating Mongolia’s Altanchimeg Baigalmaa within the quarterfinals on Sunday.
A win on Monday would take Suchika into the ultimate, giving her an opportunity to compete for gold.
India’s ladies’s hockey crew will play Indonesia in a Pool B match at 9:30 a.m. The crew will probably be trying to construct on its emphatic opening-day victory over Uzbekistan.
The Indian males’s kabaddi crew will start its Group A marketing campaign towards Japan at 9:45 a.m., whereas the ladies’s crew will face Bangladesh of their Group A encounter at 4:15 p.m.
India will face Pakistan in each the ladies’s and males’s crew occasions on Monday.
The ladies’s crew will play its Group F match at 6:15 a.m., whereas the lads’s crew will meet Pakistan of their Group F encounter at 3:30 p.m.
India’s ladies started their marketing campaign with wins over Indonesia and Singapore on Sunday. The males opened with a 3-0 victory over Indonesia earlier than dropping 0-3 to Iran.
The day begins at 5:30 a.m. with Aadhya Tiwari and Jay Meena taking over Cambodia’s Viva Chao and Chanroseka Khun in a blended doubles Group B smooth tennis match. The Indian pair may also face Mongolia and South Korea later within the group stage, at 6:30 a.m. and seven:30 a.m., respectively. The blended doubles semifinals and closing are scheduled for midday, topic to qualification.
Nyeman Wangsu will compete within the ladies’s Changquan closing in wushu at 5:30 a.m., whereas Roshbina Devi will face Most Khatun within the ladies’s 60kg Sanda spherical of 16 at 3:15 p.m. Aryan will tackle Shahzada Safi within the males’s 56kg spherical of 16 at 3:50 p.m.
In swimming, Rishabh Das and Srihari Nataraj will compete within the males’s 50m backstroke heats at 6:32 a.m. Mani Akash and Gitesh Shah will participate within the males’s 50m freestyle heats at 6:46 a.m. and 6:50 a.m., respectively. Dhanush Suresh is scheduled to compete within the males’s 100m breaststroke heats at 7:06 a.m.
India’s males’s badminton crew will face Bangladesh within the first spherical at 11:30 a.m. In boxing, Sumit will meet Bunjong Sinsiri within the males’s 70kg spherical of 32 at 2:45 p.m.
India are at present tenth within the medal standings with two silver medals after the opening day. China lead the desk with 20 medals, together with 11 gold, whereas hosts Japan are second with 20 medals, six of them gold.
With taking pictures finals, Suchika’s semifinal and a number of other crew competitions on the schedule, India may have a number of alternatives so as to add to its medal rely on Monday.
Here’s a have a look at India’s schedule for Day 2 at Asian Games 2026 [timings in Indian Standard Time (IST)]
5:30 a.m.: Soft tennis – Aadhya Tiwari-Jay Meena vs Cambodia’s Viva Chao-Chanroseka Khun in blended doubles Group B match.
5:30 a.m.: Wushu – Nyeman Wangsu in ladies’s Changquan closing.
5:30 a.m.: Sepaktakraw – India vs Japan in males’s crew regu Group B match.
6:15 a.m.: Table tennis – India vs Pakistan in ladies’s crew Group F match.
6:15 a.m.: Shooting – Himanshu Dhillon, Parth Mane and Rudrankksh Patil in males’s 10m air rifle particular person qualification and crew closing.
6:30 a.m.: Soft tennis – Aadhya Tiwari-Jay Meena vs Mongolia’s Bud Nyamdorj-Enkhkhuslen Ganbaatar in blended doubles Group B match.
6:30 a.m.: Shooting – Mairaj Khan, Anant Jeet Singh Naruka, Bhavtegh Singh Gill in males’s particular person skeet and crew closing Day 1.
6:30 a.m.: Shooting – Parinaaz Dhaliwal, Raiza Dhillon and Maheshwari Chauhan in ladies’s particular person skeet and crew closing Day 1.
6:32 a.m.: Swimming – Rishabh Das and Srihari Nataraj in males’s 50m backstroke warmth.
6:46 a.m.: Swimming – Mani Akash in males’s 50m freestyle warmth.
6:50 a.m.: Swimming – Gitesh Shah in males’s 50m freestyle warmth.
7:06 a.m.: Swimming – Dhanush Suresh in males’s 100m breaststroke warmth.
7:30 a.m.: Soft tennis – Aadhya Tiwari-Jay Meena vs South Korea’s Kim Yeon-hwa-Jaekyu Park in blended doubles Group B match.
8:00 a.m.: Mixed Martial Arts: Suchika Tariyal vs Singapore’s Teo Hui Hoon in ladies’s conventional 60kg semifinal.
9:00 a.m.: Shooting – Himanshu Dhillon, Parth Mane and Rudrankksh Patil in males’s 10m air rifle particular person closing (topic to qualification).
9:30 a.m.: Hockey – India vs Indonesia in ladies’s Pool B match.
9:45 a.m.: Kabaddi – India vs Japan in Men’s Group A match.
11:30 a.m.: Badminton – India vs Bangladesh in males’s crew first spherical.
12 p.m.: Soft tennis – Aadhya Tiwari-Jay Meena in blended doubles semifinals and closing (topic to qualification).
2:45 p.m.: Boxing – Sumit vs Bunjong Sinsiri in males’s 70kg Round of 32 bout.
3:15 p.m.: Wushu – Roshbina Devi vs Most Khatun in ladies’s 60kg Round of 16 match.
3:30 p.m.: Table tennis – India vs Pakistan in males’s crew Group F match.
3:50 p.m.: Wushu – Aryan vs Shahzada Safi in males’s 56kg Round of 16 match.
4:15 p.m.: Kabaddi – India vs. Bangladesh in ladies’s Group A match. (ANI)