Aichi-Nagoya [Japan], September 25 (ANI): The Indian ladies’s hockey crew defeated Japan 3-1 of their Asian Games Pool B conflict on Thursday, persevering with their successful run on the continental occasion and securing their place within the semifinals.
India took a 2-0 lead into half-time after Lalremsiami opened the scoring from open play within the first quarter, earlier than Ishika doubled the benefit late within the second quarter.
Japan stored India from dominating for lengthy durations and managed to include the Indian assault for a lot of the opening half. However, India remained scientific contained in the circle to take management of the competition.
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The Indian crew produced a dominant third quarter and added one other objective by way of Navneet Kaur. Navneet collected the ball contained in the circle, moved in direction of the appropriate and scooped it over the Japanese goalkeeper into the far nook to provide India a 3-0 lead.
Japan pulled one again early within the fourth quarter by way of Kobayakawa Shiho, who produced a backhand from the highest of the circle to beat goalkeeper Savita Punia.
However, Japan couldn’t add one other objective as India held on to safe a 3-1 victory.
The win provides one other constructive end result to India’s marketing campaign because the crew continues its pursuit of a robust end on the Asian Games.
Meanwhile, India loved a robust day on the 2026 Asian Games, successful one gold and one silver whereas securing medal spots in desk tennis and squash.
In capturing, Kamaljeet and Suruchi Inder Singh received gold within the 10m air pistol blended crew occasion. APS Tomar, Rudrankksh Patil and Niraj Kumar added silver within the males’s 50m rifle 3 positions crew occasion, with Tomar and Niraj additionally advancing to the person remaining.
In desk tennis, Diya Chitale and Manush Shah assured India of a medal by reaching the blended doubles semifinals after beating Hong Kong’s Wong Chun Ting and Doo Hoi Kem. Yashaswini Ghorpade additionally superior to the ladies’s singles spherical 3 after defeating Syria’s Hend Zaza, whereas she and Harmeet Desai exited the blended doubles quarterfinals.
In squash, Joshana Chinappa and Velavan Senthilkumar secured one other medal for India by reaching the blended doubles semifinals after defeating the Philippines’ David Pelino and Jemcya Aribado.
India’s ladies’s hockey crew registered a 3-1 win over Japan of their Pool B match. In badminton, Dhruv Kapila and Tanisha Crasto superior in blended doubles after beating Maldives’ Aminath Abdul Razzaq and Nibal Ahmed.
In swimming, Sajan Prakash certified for the lads’s 200m butterfly remaining, whereas Rishabh Das and Utkarsh Patil superior to the lads’s 200m backstroke remaining. Dhanush Suresh, Aneesh Sunil and Dhakshan Shashikumar missed out on their respective finals.
In canoe dash, Prohit Baroi and Prasanna Kumar superior to Final B of the lads’s kayak double 500m, whereas the ladies’s kayak 4 completed eighth and Megha Pradeep-Neha Leichonbam have been eradicated. India’s males’s and girls’s fencing groups exited within the spherical of 16, whereas Anamika Aneesh and Pooja remained seventh and ninth respectively within the ladies’s heptathlon standings. (ANI)