Aichi-Nagoya [Japan], September 22 (ANI): India’s Aadhya Tiwari bowed out of the ladies’s singles gentle tennis competitors on the Asian Games 2026 regardless of defeating Pakistan’s Kainaat Shallwani 4-0 in her last Group D match right here on Tuesday.
Tiwari received 4-2, 5-3, 4-1, 5-3 in opposition to Shallwani, however the victory was not sufficient to maintain her in competition for the quarterfinals, as solely group winners advance to the following spherical.
Thailand’s Alisha Ziegler had already secured the group after defeating each Tiwari and Shallwani. The Indian completed second in Group D, bringing her Asian Games marketing campaign to an finish.
Tiwari was the one Indian lady gentle tennis participant within the nation’s squad for the continental showpiece.
Earlier, Tiwari and Jay Meena had exited the blended doubles competitors within the spherical of 16 on Monday. The Indian pair misplaced 2-5 to the Philippines’ Christy Sanosa and Sherwin Nuguit in a seven-set contest.
The duo had begun their marketing campaign with 5-0 victories over Cambodia’s Viva Chao and Chanroseka Khun, and Mongolia’s Bud Nyamdorj and Enkhkhuslen Ganbaatar. They then misplaced 1-5 to South Korea of their last group match, ending second to qualify for the knockout stage.
In different gentle tennis outcomes on Day 3, Aryan Thakur defeated Mongolia’s Bold-erdene Altangerel 4-0 within the males’s singles Group C, whereas Jay Meena beat Pakistan’s Hussain Arain by the identical margin in Group D.
India’s marketing campaign throughout different sports activities on Tuesday noticed blended outcomes. In boxing, Sakshi Chaudhary superior to the ladies’s 51kg spherical of 16 with a unanimous 5-0 choice over Paris Olympics bronze medallist Aira Villegas of the Philippines.
In fencing, Taniksha Khatri defeated Thailand’s Natpapat Sangngio within the ladies’s particular person epee spherical of 16 to achieve the quarterfinals, whereas Mitva Chaudhari misplaced to Yang Jingwen.
India’s ladies’s desk tennis staff defeated Thailand 3-2 within the spherical of 16, whereas the boys’s staff misplaced 0-3 to the Republic of Korea within the opening spherical. The ladies’s badminton staff additionally went down 1-3 to Japan within the quarterfinals.
In taking pictures, Elavenil Valarivan and Parth Mane completed fourth within the 10m air rifle blended staff last after qualifying second. In males’s skeet qualification, Anantjeet Singh Naruka was second, whereas Mairaj Khan and Bhavtegh Singh Gill have been twenty third and thirty fifth, respectively. In the ladies’s occasion, Raiza Dhillon stood fifth, Parinaaz Dhaliwal ninth and Maheshwari Chauhan sixteenth.
India’s males’s kabaddi staff defeated South Korea 63-31 in Group A, whereas the boys’s staff Regu sepaktakraw aspect misplaced 0-3 to Malaysia.
In swimming, the boys’s 4x100m medley relay staff certified for the ultimate after ending seventh total within the heats. Aryan Nehra positioned fourth within the males’s 1500m freestyle last B.
In wushu, Langlentombi Devi Hanjabam completed ninth within the ladies’s Nanquan last. Karateka Alisha Choudhary misplaced 1-6 to Indonesia’s Cok Istri Agung Sanistyarani within the ladies’s kumite – 55kg spherical of 16, whereas Chetan Bhatt misplaced his males’s 84kg kumite bronze medal match. (ANI)