Aichi-Nagoya [Japan], September 28 (ANI): Defending champions India registered a complete 3-0 win over South Korea within the males’s squash crew group stage on the 2026 Asian Games on Monday to prime their group and advance to the quarterfinals.
Velavan Senthilkumar bought India off to a profitable begin, defeating South Korea’s Na Jooyoung 11-6, 11-4, 11-7 in straight video games.
Velavan managed the opening contest from the beginning, profitable the primary recreation 11-6 earlier than extending India’s benefit with an 11-4 victory within the second. He accomplished the win by taking the third recreation 11-7.
Abhay Singh then doubled India’s lead with a dominant 11-4, 11-7, 11-1 victory over Ryu Jeongmin.
Abhay raced by means of the opening recreation 11-4 earlier than sustaining his momentum to take the second 11-7. He then wrapped up the match comfortably with an 11-1 win within the third recreation. With the tie already secured, Veer Chotrani accomplished the clear sweep for India towards Oh Seojin.
Veer defeated his South Korean opponent 11-6, 11-4, 11-2 to seal India’s 3-0 victory. The win got here after India had earlier defeated China 3-0 of their opening males’s crew pool match.
Indian athletes delivered a robust displaying on the 2026 Asian Games on Monday, with Esha Singh profitable silver in girls’s 25m pistol, whereas Pincky Balhara and Vithya Ramaraj claimed bronze medals in kurash and athletics respectively. Lovlina Borgohain and Priya additionally confirmed medals in boxing by reaching their respective semifinals.
Esha Singh secured silver within the girls’s 25m pistol particular person last after a dramatic sequence of shoot-offs. Pincky Balhara misplaced to South Korea’s Mo Sumin within the girls’s -78kg semifinal however completed with bronze, whereas Vithya Ramaraj gained bronze within the girls’s 400m hurdles last. Anu Raghavan completed fifth within the occasion.
In boxing, Lovlina Borgohain defeated South Korea’s Seong Suyeon within the girls’s 75kg quarterfinal to verify a medal, whereas Priya beat Tajikistan’s Mijgona Samadova within the girls’s 60kg quarterfinal to additionally safe a medal.
In athletics, Seema completed fourth and Sanya Yadav eighth within the girls’s discus throw last.
India loved a profitable day in squash, with the lads’s crew beating China and South Korea 3-0 of their respective pool matches. The girls’s crew defeated China 3-0 and Japan 2-1.
In archery, Chikitha Taniparthi defeated Chinese Taipei’s Chen Yi-Hsuan within the girls’s compound particular person spherical of 16 to achieve the quarterfinals. She had earlier overwhelmed Bhutan’s Dorji Dolma within the spherical of 32. Jyothi Surekha Vennam misplaced to South Korea’s Kang Yeonseo within the spherical of 16 after beating Kazakhstan’s Adel Zhexenbinova within the spherical of 32.
In males’s compound archery, Ganesh Mani Ratnam Thirumuru defeated compatriot Sahil Jadhav 149-148 within the spherical of 16 to achieve the quarterfinals. Earlier, Ganesh beat Indonesia’s Sostar Andaru Rinaldi, whereas Sahil defeated Mongolia’s Jamiyangombo Purevdorj within the spherical of 32.
India’s males’s cricket quarterfinal towards Afghanistan was deserted as a consequence of rain, with India progressing to the semifinals by advantage of upper seeding.
In capturing, Neeru topped the ladies’s lure qualifying standings after Day 2, whereas Manisha Keer and Aashima Ahlawat have been twenty first and twenty third respectively. In males’s lure qualifying, Shapath Bharadwaj was fifth, Kynan Chenai nineteenth and Ahvar Rizvi thirty second.
Manu Bhaker, Esha Singh and Rahi Sarnobat completed fifth within the girls’s 25m pistol crew last and certified for the person last. India additionally defeated Hong Kong 3-0 in males’s volleyball.
In tennis, Ankita Raina and Rutuja Bhosale misplaced to Kazakhstan’s Anna Danilina and Yuliya Putintseva within the girls’s doubles first spherical.In sepaktakraw, India misplaced 1-2 to Japan within the girls’s doubles occasion and completed backside of Group B, ensuing of their elimination.
In browsing, Sivaraj Babu misplaced to the Philippines’ Alciso Jayuard within the males’s shortboard spherical 3, whereas Kishore Kumar Anbarasu defeated China’s Ma Wensong in the identical spherical. (ANI)