Aichi-Nagoya [Japan], September 25 (ANI): Union Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya congratulated Manush Shah and Diya Chitale after the Indian pair secured a bronze medal in blended doubles desk tennis on the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on Friday.
Mandaviya shared a put up on X and wrote, ‘Congratulations to our paddlers Manush Shah and Diya Chitale on clinching the Bronze Medal in Mixed Doubles Table Tennis at #AsianGames2026!’
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The eighth-ranked Indian pair assured themselves of a medal after defeating Hong Kong’s world No. 4 duo Wong Chun Ting and Doo Hoi Kem 3-1 within the quarter-finals.
Shah and Chitale then went down 8-11, 5-11, 8-11, 2-11 to China’s Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha within the semi-finals. With no bronze medal playoff within the occasion, a semi-final look assured the Indian duo a podium end.
The bronze is India’s second Asian Games medal in blended doubles desk tennis. Sharath Kamal and Manika Batra had received the nation’s first medal within the occasion on the 2018 Asian Games.
The Indian pair’s quarter-final victory was notably vital as Wong and Doo are multiple-time World Championship medallists.
The medal was amongst India’s successes on Day 6 of the Games.
Gulveer Singh received silver within the males’s 10,000m, whereas shooters Kamaljeet and Suruchi Inder Singh clinched gold within the 10m air pistol blended workforce occasion. Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, Rudrankksh Patil and Niraj Kumar added a silver within the males’s 50m rifle 3 positions workforce occasion.
In squash, Joshana Chinappa and Velavan Senthilkumar assured India of one other medal after defeating the Philippines’ David Pelino and Jemcya Aribado within the blended doubles quarter-finals.
India’s males’s and girls’s kabaddi groups additionally superior to the finals after beating Thailand and Nepal respectively, whereas the ladies’s hockey workforce defeated Japan 3-1 in its Pool B match.
At the time of writing, India had 22 medals on the Asian Games, comprising two gold, 9 silver and 11 bronze, and stood twelfth within the standings. (ANI)