Aichi-Nagoya [Japan], September 21 (ANI): India started their males’s kabaddi marketing campaign on the Asian Games 2026 in dominant style, defeating Japan 49-24 of their opening match on Monday.
Japan opened the scoring with a bonus level, however India rapidly responded as Ayan Lochhab levelled the scores with a contact level. India quickly took full management of the competition. Ashu produced an excellent three-point raid earlier than India’s defence efficiently tackled a Japanese raider, adopted by one other raid level that helped India inflict their first all-out and set up an 11-2 lead.
The Indian facet continued to dominate and inflicted a second all-out to increase their benefit to 18-2. India went into half-time with a commanding 31-9 lead, with Ashu and Devank making an influence within the raiding division, whereas Sunil Kumar and Rahul contributed strongly in defence.
India maintained their dominance after the break, with Pawan Sehrawat, Arjun Deshwal and Aslam Inamdar becoming a member of the motion and including to the group’s attacking power.Â
Japan confirmed higher resistance within the second half and managed so as to add greater than 20 factors, however India remained firmly in management all through. India ultimately sealed a complete 49-24 victory to make a robust begin to their Asian Games marketing campaign.
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Meanwhile, India loved a robust day on the Asian Games 2026, securing extra medals throughout taking pictures and blended martial arts, whereas athletes additionally progressed to finals in swimming and registered wins in boxing, smooth tennis and desk tennis.
In taking pictures, Himanshu gained silver and Rudrankksh secured bronze within the males’s 10m air rifle particular person remaining. Earlier, Rudrankksh and Himanshu had certified for the ultimate after ending third and seventh respectively, whereas Parth Mane completed eleventh. The Indian trio had additionally gained silver within the group occasion.
In blended martial arts, Suchika Tariyal secured a bronze medal after dropping to Singapore’s Teo Hui Hoon within the ladies’s conventional 60kg semifinal.
In boxing, Sumit defeated Thailand’s Bunjong Sinsiri within the males’s 70kg Round of 32 bout to advance within the competitors.
Soft tennis noticed Aadhya Tiwari and Jay Meena report wins over Cambodia and Mongolia of their blended doubles Group B matches. They additionally misplaced to South Korea’s Kim Yeon-hwa and Jaekyu Park earlier than struggling defeat in opposition to the Philippines’ Christy Sanosa and Sherwin Nuguit within the spherical of 16.
In swimming, Srihari Nataraj superior to the lads’s 50m backstroke remaining, with Rishabh Das named as reserve. Mani Akash and Gitesh Shah missed out on the lads’s 50m freestyle remaining, whereas Dhanush Suresh did not qualify for the lads’s 100m breaststroke remaining.
In wushu, Nyeman Wangsu completed fifteenth within the ladies’s Changquan remaining. In desk tennis, India defeated Pakistan 3-0 within the ladies’s group Group F match. India, nevertheless, suffered a setback in sepaktakraw, dropping to Japan within the males’s group regu Group B match. (ANI)