Asian Games Day 2: Focus on taking pictures, MMA, hockey, kabaddi as India purpose to spice up medal tally

Aichi-Nagoya [Japan], September 21 (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 workforce 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 workforce remaining. The particular person remaining is scheduled for 9 a.m. IST, topic to qualification, in line with ESPN.

Mixed martial artist Suchika Tariyal will even be in motion, taking up Singapore’s Teo Hui Hoon within the girls’s conventional 60kg semifinal at 8 a.m. Having already assured herself of a medal, Suchika will purpose to win her semifinal and advance to the ultimate.

India’s girls’s hockey workforce 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 will even start their campaigns, whereas the Indian desk tennis groups are set for 2 matches in opposition to Pakistan.

The day’s motion begins early, with Indian athletes competing throughout gentle 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 can be one of many fundamental medal occasions for India within the morning. Dhillon, Mane and Patil will compete within the particular person qualification spherical, which additionally varieties a part of the workforce competitors. The workforce remaining is scheduled for six:15 a.m., whereas the person remaining is ready for 9 a.m., topic to qualification.

India will even start its marketing campaign n the boys’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 workforce occasion, whereas Parinaaz Dhaliwal, Raiza Dhillon and Maheshwari Chauhan will signify India within the girls’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 girls’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 girls’s hockey workforce will play Indonesia in a Pool B match at 9:30 a.m. The workforce can be seeking to construct on its emphatic opening-day victory over Uzbekistan.

The Indian males’s kabaddi workforce will start its Group A in opposition to Japan at 9:45 AM, whereas girls’s workforce will play Bangladesh at 4:15 AM.

India will face Pakistan in each the ladies’s and males’s desk tennis workforce occasions on Monday.

The girls’s workforce will play its Group F match at 6:15 a.m, whereas the boys’s workforce will meet Pakistan of their Group F encounter at 3:30 p.m.

India’s girls started their marketing campaign with wins over Indonesia and Singapore on Sunday. The males’s 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 up Cambodia’s Viva Chao and Chanroseka Khun in a blended doubles Group B gentle tennis match. The Indian pair will even 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 remaining are scheduled for midday, topic to qualification.

Nyeman Wangsu will compete within the girls’s Changquan remaining in wushu at 5:30 a.m., whereas Roshbina Devi will face Most Khatun within the girls’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 workforce 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 the moment 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 workforce competitions on the schedule, India may have a number of alternatives so as to add to its medal depend 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 girls’s Changquan remaining.

5:30 a.m.: Sepaktakraw – India vs Japan in males’s workforce regu Group B match.

6:15 a.m.: Table tennis – India vs Pakistan in girls’s workforce Group F match.

6:15 a.m.: Shooting – Himanshu Dhillon, Parth Mane ana Rudrankksh Patil in males’s 10m air rifle particular person qualification and workforce remaining.

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 workforce remaining Day 1.

6:30 a.m.: Shooting – Parinaaz Dhaliwal, Raiza Dhillon and Maheshwari Chauhan in girls’s particular person skeet and workforce remaining 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 E match.

8:00 a.m.: Mixed Martial Arts: Suchika Tariyal vs Singapore’s Teo Hui Hoon in womnen’s conventional G0kg semifinal.

9:00 a.m.: Shooting Himanshu Dhillon, Parth Mane and Rudrankksh Patil in males’s 10m air rifle particular person remaining (topic to qualification).

9:30 a.m.: Hockey – India vs Indonesia in girls’s Pool B match.

9:45 a.m.: Kabaddi – India vs Japan in Men’s Group A match

1130 a.m.: Badminton – India vs Bangladesh in males’s workforce first spherical.

12 p.m.: Soft tennis – Aadhya Tiwari-Jay Meena in blended doubles semifinals and remaining (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 girls’s 60kg Round of 16 match.

3:30 p.m.: Table tennis – India vs Pakistan

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 girls’s Group A match. (ANI)