Aichi-Nagoya [Japan], September 26 (ANI): India’s Yashaswini Ghorpade’s girls’s singles marketing campaign got here to an finish on the Asian Games 2026 after she misplaced 1-4 to Japan’s world No. 3 Miwa Harimoto within the third spherical right here on Saturday.
Yashaswini put up a struggle however went down 9/11, 5-11, 11-4, 4-11, 5-11 in opposition to the higher-ranked Japanese paddler, in accordance with ESPN.
The Indian struggled to match Harimoto’s consistency within the opening two video games, falling 9/11 and 5-11 earlier than producing a powerful response within the third. Yashaswini dominated the sport 11-4 to scale back the deficit and maintain her singles marketing campaign alive.
Harimoto, nonetheless, regained management within the fourth sport, profitable it 11-4 earlier than closing out the competition 11-5 within the fifth to progress to the following spherical.
Yashaswini had earlier superior to the third spherical after defeating Syria’s Hend Zaza within the second spherical.
The 21-year-old’s exit got here after she had additionally featured within the girls’s doubles and blended doubles occasions earlier within the Games.
On Friday, Yashaswini and Diya Chitale misplaced 0-3 to China’s Fan Shuhan and Chen Yi within the girls’s doubles quarter-finals. Sreeja Akula and Syndrela Das have been additionally overwhelmed 0-3 by China’s Kuai Man and Wang Manyu within the girls’s doubles third spherical.
India’s desk tennis marketing campaign had earlier produced a bronze medal in blended doubles, with Manush Shah and Diya Chitale reaching the semi-finals earlier than dropping to China’s Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha.
Meanwhile, India’s badminton marketing campaign suffered one other setback on Saturday as Lakshya Sen was knocked out within the opening spherical of the lads’s singles competitors.
Sen misplaced 12-21, 21-15, 14-21 to Singapore’s former world champion Loh Kean Yew. After dropping the opening sport, Sen fought again to degree the competition however was unable to finish the comeback within the decider.
India’s males had additionally seen Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty exit the lads’s doubles competitors early, whereas PV Sindhu stays among the many nation’s contenders in girls’s singles.
In athletics, Sawan Barwal gained silver within the males’s marathon with a nationwide document time of two:11:37 on Day 7.
In canoe dash, Harshwardhan Shaktawat superior to Final B of the lads’s kayak single 500m after ending fifth in his semifinal. Parvathy Geetha and Prasanna Kumar, in the meantime, certified for Final A of the blended kayak double 500m after ending second of their semifinal.
India additionally progressed to the quarter-finals of the ladies’s foil group occasion in fencing after defeating Indonesia 45-24 within the spherical of 16. (ANI)