Aichi-Nagoya [Japan], September 21 (ANI): India registered a dominant 3-0 victory over Bangladesh within the males’s badminton workforce occasion on the Asian Games 2026, with Lakshya Sen, Ayush Shetty and Kidambi Srikanth profitable their respective singles matches.
Lakshya Sen gave India an ideal begin, defeating Ayman Ibn Jaman 21-4, 21-12 within the opening match. The Indian shuttler comfortably dominated the competition to place India forward 1-0.
Ayush Shetty prolonged India’s lead with one other commanding efficiency, beating Gourab Singha 21-4, 21-13 within the second match.
With India needing another win to seal the tie, skilled campaigner Kidambi Srikanth stepped up and delivered a straight-game victory towards Al Amin Jumar. Srikanth received the match 21-15, 21-9 to finish India’s 3-0 triumph.
India’s three singles victories meant the doubles matches weren’t required because the workforce secured a snug win over Bangladesh.
With the victory, India superior to the quarterfinals of the boys’s workforce occasion on the continental Games. The males’s badminton workforce is more likely to face Japan within the subsequent spherical.
India are having an excellent day on the Asian Games on Monday, with athletes profitable medals in taking pictures and combined martial arts whereas additionally registering victories in hockey, badminton, kabaddi, boxing and desk tennis.
Shooting emerged as India’s greatest contributor, with Himanshu Dhillon profitable silver and Rudrankksh Patil securing bronze within the males’s 10m air rifle particular person closing. The duo, together with Parth Mane, had earlier claimed silver within the males’s 10m air rifle workforce occasion.
In the boys’s 10m air rifle particular person qualification, Rudrankksh Patil completed third and Himanshu Dhillon seventh to qualify for the ultimate, whereas Parth Mane completed eleventh.
In combined martial arts, Suchika Tariyal received a bronze medal within the girls’s conventional 60kg class after dropping to Singapore’s Teo Hui Hoon within the semifinal.
India’s girls’s hockey workforce registered a dominant 17-1 victory over Indonesia of their Pool B match. The Indian males’s kabaddi workforce additionally recorded a snug 49-23 win over Japan of their Group A encounter.
In boxing, Sumit superior to the following spherical after defeating Bunjong Sinsiri within the males’s 70kg Round of 32 bout. India’s girls’s desk tennis workforce defeated Pakistan 3-0 within the Group F match.
In swimming, Srihari Nataraj certified for the boys’s 50m backstroke closing, whereas Rishabh Das remained as a reserve. Mani Akash and Gitesh Shah did not qualify for the boys’s 50m freestyle closing, whereas Dhanush Suresh missed out on the boys’s 100m breaststroke closing.
In tender tennis, Aadhya Tiwari and Jay Meena defeated Cambodia’s Viva Chao-Chanroseka Khun 5-0 and likewise registered a win over Mongolia’s Bud Nyamdorj-Enkhkhuslen Ganbaatar in combined doubles. However, the pair misplaced to South Korea’s Kim Yeon-hwa-Jaekyu Park and later exited after a Round of 16 defeat towards the Philippines’ Christy Sanosa and Sherwin Nuguit.
In wushu, Nyeman Wangsu completed fifteenth within the girls’s Changquan closing, whereas India’s males’s workforce suffered a defeat towards Japan within the Sepaktakraw workforce regu Group B match.
In taking pictures skeet qualification, Raiza Dhillon, Parinaaz Dhaliwal and Maheshwari Chauhan completed ninth, 14th and sixteenth respectively after Day 1 within the girls’s particular person occasion. In the boys’s skeet qualification, Anant Jeet Singh Naruka, Mairaj Khan and Bhavtegh Singh Gill completed twenty first, twenty sixth and twenty seventh respectively. (ANI)