Aichi-Nagoya [Japan], September 28 (ANI): India’s Ankita Raina and Rutuja Bhosale have been knocked out of the ladies’s doubles tennis competitors on the 2026 Asian Games after shedding to Kazakhstan’s Anna Danilina and Yuliya Putintseva on Monday.
The Indian pair went down 7-5, 3-6, [5-10] in opposition to the Kazakh duo in a carefully contested match.
Raina and Bhosale made a robust begin, taking the opening set 7-5. However, Danilina and Putintseva fought again to say the second set 6-3 earlier than prevailing within the deciding match tiebreak 10-5.
The Indian duo managed to take the opening set regardless of dealing with a formidable opponent in Putintseva, who’s a Top 100 participant and a daily presence on the WTA Tour.
However, Raina and Bhosale couldn’t keep their momentum within the latter levels of the competition because the Kazakh pair accomplished the comeback.
The defeat brings India’s ladies’s doubles marketing campaign to an finish on the Asian Games. Raina and Bhosale will, nevertheless, stay in rivalry within the combined doubles competitors and can look to proceed their marketing campaign on the occasion.
India are having a combined day on the 2026 Asian Games, with a number of athletes progressing throughout disciplines. In Kurash, Pincky Balhara defeated Lim Garam 3-0 within the ladies’s 78kg quarterfinal to safe a medal. India’s males’s cricket crew superior to the semi-finals after their quarterfinal in opposition to Afghanistan was deserted because of rain, with India progressing based mostly on larger seeding.
In archery, Chikitha Taniparthi and Jyothi Surekha Vennam received their respective ladies’s compound particular person Round of 32 matches, whereas Ganesh Mani Ratnam Thirumuru and Sahil Jadhav additionally superior earlier than Ganesh defeated Sahil 149-148 within the Round of 16 to succeed in the quarterfinals.
In capturing, Neeru leads the ladies’s entice qualification after Day 2, whereas Shapath Bharadwaj is fifth within the males’s entice standings. Manu Bhaker, Esha Singh and Rahi Sarnobat completed fifth within the ladies’s 25m pistol crew ultimate and certified for the person ultimate.
India additionally defeated Hong Kong 3-0 in males’s volleyball and China 3-0 within the ladies’s squash crew occasion. In sepaktakraw, India misplaced 1-2 to Japan and was eradicated after ending backside of Group B. In browsing, Kishore Kumar Anbarasu defeated China’s Ma Wensong, whereas Sivaraj Babu misplaced to the Philippines’ Alciso Jayuard. (ANI)