Aichi-Nagoya [Japan], September 25 (ANI): India’s Manush Shah and Diya Chitale secured a bronze medal within the blended doubles desk tennis occasion on the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games 2026 after dropping their semi-final to China’s Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha on Friday.
The Indian pair, ranked eighth on the planet, went down 8-11, 5-11, 8-11, 2-11 within the semi-final. As there is no such thing as a bronze medal playoff within the occasion, their semi-final look assured them a podium end, in keeping with ESPN.
The medal is simply India’s second in blended doubles desk tennis on the Asian Games. The first got here by means of Sharath Kamal and Manika Batra on the 2018 version.
Earlier on Friday, Shah and Chitale produced a serious upset within the quarter-finals, defeating the world No. 4 Hong Kong pair of Wong Chun Ting and Doo Hoi Kem 3-1 (11-6, 13-15, 11-9, 11-5) to guarantee India of a medal. Wong and Doo are multiple-time World Championship medallists, with their most up-to-date medal coming eventually yr’s version.
The Indian duo’s bronze was one among a number of medals secured by the nation on Day 6 of the Games.
India’s shooters Kamaljeet and Suruchi Inder Singh gained gold within the 10m air pistol blended group occasion, whereas Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, Rudrankksh Patil and Niraj Kumar secured silver within the males’s 50m rifle 3 positions group occasion.
In squash, Joshana Chinappa and Velavan Senthilkumar assured India of one other medal after reaching the blended doubles semi-finals, whereas Abhay Singh and Anahat Singh progressed to the lads’s and ladies’s singles semi-finals respectively.
India’s kabaddi groups additionally superior to the finals, with the ladies defeating Nepal and the lads beating Thailand of their respective semi-finals.
In hockey, India’s girls registered a 3-1 victory over Japan of their Pool B match.
Elsewhere, swimmer Rishabh Das completed sixth within the males’s 200m backstroke last with a time of 1:58.77, whereas weightlifter Seram Nirupama Devi completed seventh within the girls’s 61kg class with a complete raise of 217kg.
Boxer Preeti’s marketing campaign ended within the spherical of 16 after she misplaced 0-5 to North Korea’s Pang Chol Mi.
India’s medal tally stood at 20, comprising two gold, eight silver and 10 bronze medals, putting the nation twelfth within the standings on the time of writing. (ANI)