Aichi-Nagoya [Japan], September 28 (ANI): India defeated Japan 2-1 within the girls’s squash workforce occasion on the 2026 Asian Games on Monday, with Tanvi Khanna sealing the tie after Anahat Singh’s five-game defeat to Satomi Watanabe.
Joshana Chinappa gave India an early lead with an 11-1, 11-8 victory over Japan’s Erisa Sano within the opening match. Anahat was then up towards Watanabe, who had overwhelmed the Indian within the opening recreation 11-8. However, Anahat responded strongly, successful the subsequent two video games 11-8 and 11-7 to take a 2-1 lead.
Watanabe pressured a decider by successful the fourth recreation 11-8 earlier than finishing the comeback with an 11-9 victory within the fifth recreation.
Watanabe received the match 11-8, 8-11, 7-11, 11-8, 11-9 to degree the tie at 1-1. Tanvi then stepped up towards Akari Midorikawa within the deciding match and secured a 12-10, 11-9, 4-11, 12-10 victory to seal India’s 2-1 win over Japan.
The victory got here after India had earlier defeated China 2-1 of their opening girls’s workforce occasion match.
Meanwhile, Indian shooter Esha Singh received the silver medal within the girls’s 25m pistol particular person closing, whereas Pincky Balhara and Lovlina Borgohain confirmed medals in kurash and boxing respectively as Indian athletes produced a number of notable performances on the 2026 Asian Games on Monday.
Esha completed second within the girls’s 25m pistol closing after a dramatic sequence of shoot-offs. She completed with 38 factors, degree with China’s Xiao Jiaruixian, who ultimately received gold, whereas North Korea’s Kim Hyon Suk claimed bronze with 34 factors.
In kurash, Pincky Balhara misplaced to South Korea’s Mo Sumin within the girls’s -78kg semifinal however secured the bronze medal.
Boxer Lovlina Borgohain defeated South Korea’s Seong Suyeon within the girls’s 75kg quarterfinal to verify a medal.
In archery, Chikitha Taniparthi defeated Chinese Taipei’s Chen Yi-Hsuan within the girls’s compound particular person spherical of 16 to enter the quarterfinals. Earlier, she had overwhelmed Bhutan’s Dorji Dolma within the spherical of 32.
Jyothi Surekha Vennam, in the meantime, misplaced to South Korea’s Kang Yeonseo within the spherical of 16. She had earlier defeated Kazakhstan’s Adel Zhexenbinova within the spherical of 32.
In tennis, Ankita Raina and Rutuja Bhosale misplaced to Kazakhstan’s Anna Danilina and Yuliya Putintseva within the girls’s doubles first spherical.
India’s males’s squash workforce registered a 3-0 win over China of their pool match, whereas the ladies’s workforce additionally defeated China 3-0.
In cricket, India’s males’s quarterfinal towards Afghanistan was deserted because of rain, with India progressing to the semifinals by advantage of their larger seeding.
In taking pictures, Neeru completed first, whereas Manisha Keer and Aashima Ahlawat have been twenty first and twenty third respectively after Day 2 of girls’s lure qualifying. 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 workforce closing and certified for the person closing.
India additionally recorded a 3-0 win over Hong Kong in males’s volleyball.
In males’s compound archery, Ganesh Mani Ratnam Thirumuru defeated compatriot Sahil Jadhav 149-148 within the spherical of 16 to enter the quarterfinals, scheduled for October 1. Sahil had earlier overwhelmed Mongolia’s Jamiyangombo Purevdorj 149-137 within the spherical of 32, whereas Ganesh defeated Indonesia’s Sostar Andaru Rinaldi 144-142.
In sepaktakraw, India misplaced 1-2 to Japan within the girls’s doubles occasion, with the 11-15, 15-9, 13-15 defeat leaving them backside of Group B and eliminating them from the competitors.
In browsing, Sivaraj Babu misplaced 7.83-11.50 to the Philippines’ Alciso Jayuard within the males’s shortboard spherical 3. Kishore Kumar Anbarasu, nonetheless, defeated China’s Ma Wensong 9.86-8.80 in the identical spherical. (ANI)