Aichi-Nagoya [Japan], September 27 (ANI): India’s badminton particular person medal hopes on the Asian Games 2026 ended on Sunday as PV Sindhu and Unnati Hooda bowed out within the ladies’s singles quarterfinals.
Two-time Olympic medallist Sindhu made a powerful begin in opposition to China’s Chen Yu Fei however couldn’t maintain the momentum, dropping 21-11, 18-21, 10-21, in line with ESPN.
Sindhu took the opening recreation comfortably however Chen fought again to degree the competition earlier than dominating the decider. The defeat introduced an finish to India’s marketing campaign in badminton on the Games, with the boys’s workforce bronze remaining the nation’s solely medal from the game.
Earlier, 18-year-old Unnati additionally got here near securing a medal earlier than taking place to Japan’s former world No. 1 Akane Yamaguchi 16-21, 21-14, 17-21 in a carefully fought quarterfinal.
Unnati recovered after dropping the opening recreation and compelled a decider, however couldn’t capitalise when Yamaguchi gave the impression to be battling a leg subject.
The Indian stayed inside touching distance within the closing levels, however errors and missed alternatives allowed Yamaguchi to edge forward. At 16-14 and 18-16, the Japanese participant managed to take care of her slim benefit earlier than closing out the match.
In different occasions, boxer Ankush defeated Tajikistan’s Nekruz Salimov within the males’s 80kg quarterfinal to guarantee India of a medal.
Archery continued to provide robust outcomes, with India’s males’s and girls’s recurve groups defeating the Philippines and Mongolia respectively to succeed in the semifinals. India additionally superior to the semifinals of the recurve blended workforce and males’s and girls’s compound workforce occasions.
In athletics, Sreeshankar Murali and David Solomon certified for the boys’s lengthy bounce closing. Vithya Ramraj and Anu Raghavan additionally superior to the ladies’s 400m hurdles closing after ending second of their respective heats.
Santhosh Kumar Tamilarasan had earlier certified for the boys’s 400m hurdles closing, whereas Tejaswin Shankar stood third within the decathlon total standings after the discus throw.
In capturing, Neeru led the ladies’s lure qualification after Day 1, with Aashima Ahlawat sixteenth and Manisha Keer twenty fourth. Kynan Chenai was eleventh within the males’s lure qualification, adopted by Shapath Bharadwaj twenty second and Ahvar Rizvi thirty fifth.
India’s ladies’s fencing workforce misplaced to Uzbekistan within the workforce sabre quarterfinals, whereas Hriday Chheda and Jai Sud completed eighth and ninth respectively within the particular person dressage closing.
In browsing, Sivaraj Babu superior to Round 3 of the boys’s shortboard, whereas Kamali Prakash missed out on development within the ladies’s occasion.
India additionally suffered defeats in kurash and girls’s doubles sepaktakraw on Day 8. (ANI)