Key updates

Table tennis: Indian men’s team defeated Yemen 3-0, Singapore 3-1.

Table tennis: Indian women’s team defeat Singapore 3-2.

Rowing: Balraj Panwar makes it to men’s single sculls final A.

Modern Pentathlon: Mayank Chaphekar placed 13th at the end of the day

Cricket: Indian women’s team’s semi-final opponent decided; team set to face Bangladesh on Sunday

Volleyball: Indian men’s team beat Chinese Taipei to enter quarter-finals


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Here’s a look at the schedule for Friday, September 22.

That victory from Sathiyan Gnanasekaran draws curtains on all the Friday action from the Indian contingent in Hangzhou. It was a day of highs for India as the country’s men’s table tennis team registered consecutive victories, whereas the women’s team too came out on top against Singapore in a tightly fought contest.

Besides, rower Balraj Panwar made it to the medal final of the men’s singles sculls while the sailors continued from where they had left off on Thursday.

Thank you for joining into our coverage. We’ll be back soon with more updates from Hangzhou.


Indian men's table tennis team defeated Singapore 3-1

Asian Games, Table Tennis: Indian men’s team defeat Singapore 3-1

Sathiyan Gnanasekaran registers a 11-7, 10-12, 11-9, 11-6 win over Pang Yew En Koen in the fourth match to help India to their second consecutive victory of the day.

Asian Games, Table Tennis: Achanta Sharath Kamal goes down 11-13, 8-11, 12-10, 5-11 against Chew Zhe Yu Charence as Singapore fight back in the men’s tie.

Sathiyan Gnanasekaran will play his second match of the tie now.

Modern Pentathlon Standings - India's Mayank Chaphekar is 13th.

Asian Games, Modern Pentathlon: Mayank Chaphekar is placed 13th with 1005 points at the end of day’s competition.

Indian women's table tennis team beat Singapore 3-2

Asian Games, Table Tennis: Indian women’s team defeat Singapore 3-2 in their opening match of the campaign.

Ayhika Mukherjee, who lost her first match of the day, came up with a 11-7, 11-8, 9-11, 11-5 win over Zhou Jingyi in the decider to see India through.

Asian Games, Table Tennis: Harmeet Desai defeats Pang Yew En Koen 12-10, 11-8, 6-11, 6-11, 11-5 to help Indian men’s team take a 2-0 lead over Singapore.

Asian Games, Table Tennis: Zeng Jian gets better of Manika Batra 11-3, 3-11, 12-10, 10-12, 12-10 in the fourth match of Singapore’s women’s tie against India.

This is Jian’s second win of the day after having defeated Ayhika Mukherjee earlier.

Mukerjee will step out to the middle for India in a must-win match now.

Asian Games, Table Tennis: Sathiyan Gnanasekaran wins 5-11, 12-10, 11-6, 11-9 against Izzac Quek Yong as the Indian men’s team takes a 1-0 lead against Singapore in their second tie of the day.

Asian Games, Table Tennis: Sreeja Akula registers a come from behind 12-14, 11-9, 8-11, 11-9, 11-7 win over Wong Xin Ru. India have taken a 2-1 lead in the tie.

Manika Batra will take on Zeng Jian next.

Indian men's TT team v/s Singapore

Asian Games, Table Tennis: A few hours after their quick-fire win over Yemen, the men’s team is back in action. They take on Singapore in their second Group F encounter.

Asian Games, Cricket: Bangladesh are through to the semi-final of the women’s event. They made it to the last four by virtue of being the higher ranked team, after their quarter-final against Hong Kong was abandoned due to rain. They will take on India for a spot in the final.

Asian Games, Table Tennis: Manika Batra wins 11-9, 9-11, 11-7, 11-3 against Zhou Jingyi to help India draw level with Singapore in the women’s table tennis tie.

Up next for India is Sreeja Akula against Wong Xin Ru.

Asian Games, Sailing: The Indian sailors have completed their races for today. Here are their standings:

In the girl’s Dinghy – ILCA4 event, Neha Thakur is second out of eight sailors after four races.

Eabad Ali is fourth out of six sailors after six races in the men’s Windsurfer RS:X – RS:X event.

In the women’s Skiff - 49erFX event, Harshita Tomar and Shital Verma are third out of six pairs after six races.

Ishwariya Ganesh in the women’s Windsurfer RS:X – RS:X event is fourth out of four sailors after six races.

Adhvait Menon is fourth out of 12 sailors after four races in the boy’s Dinghy – ILCA4 event.

In the men’s Skiff – 49er, Ganapathy Chengappa Kelapanda and Varun Ashok Thakkar are fourth out of eight pairs after six races.

In the Mixed Multihull – Nacra 17 event, the pair of Siddeshwar Indar Doiphode and Ramya Saravanan are fourth out of five pairs after six races.

Tatha Chitresh is seventh out of seven sailors in the men’s Kite – IKA Formula Kite after eight races.

Preethi Kongara and Shekhar Sudhanshu are sixth out of seven pairs after four races in the Mixed Dinghy – 470 event.

Vishnu Saravanan is first out of 13 sailors in the men’s Dinghy ILCA7 after four races.

In the women’s Single Dinghy – ILCA6 event, Nethra Kumanan is fourth out of nine sailors after four races.

Jerome Kumar Savarimuthu is seventh out of nine sailors after eight races in the men’s Windsurfing - iQFoil event.

Asian Games, Table Tennis: Not the best of starts for India. Ahyika Mukherjee loses 11-7, 2-11, 7-11, 10-12 to Zeng Jian in her match.

Asian Games, Table Tennis: India begin their campaign in the women’s table tennis team event against Singapore in group F.

Asian Games, Volleyball: India have done it! They beat 2018 bronze medallists Chinese Taiperi 25-22, 25-22, 25-21 to progress to the next round! The Indians will next face Japan for a place in the semi-finals.

Asian Games, Rowing: Balraj Panwar has qualified for the medal final in men’s single sculls. The 23-year-old, who started competing in the sport only three years ago, had a slow start to the semi-final, but kept pace with the Chinese and Kazakh rower to finish third with a timing of 7:22.22. The final will be held on Monday, September 25 at 7am IST.

Asian Games, Volleyball: The Indians take the momentum into the second set. They opened up a healthy lead and kept Chinese Taipei away only losing the lead once. But India staved off their fight back to clinch the second set 25-22.

India 25-22, 25-22 Chinese Taipei

Asian Games, Volleyball: India have picked up from where they left off against South Korea! They trailed for most of the set with Chinese-Taipei leading 20-15 at one stage. The Indians fought back superbly to level the score at 21-21 and 22-22 before closing out the set 25-22.

India 25-22 Chinese Taipei

Asian Games, Volleyball: Just days ago, the Indian men’s volleyball pulled out the upset of the tournament when they beat three-time Asian Games champion South Korea in the group stage. Today, they will face another Asian giant in 2018 Asian Games bronze medallists Chinese-Taipei in the Round of 12.

Asian Games: Later today, the men’s volleyball team will take on Chinese Taipei in a Cross Match for Top 12. That match begins at 12 pm.

The India men’s table tennis team will return at 3:30 pm to face Singapore in their second Group F match, but that will be only after the women’s table tennis team begins its campaign against Singapore, at 1:30 pm.

At 1:00 pm, Balraj Panwar will compete in the men’s singles sculls rowing semi-final, while Mayank Chaphekar competes in the fencing event in the Modern Pentathlon.

Asian Games, Table Tennis: Harmeet Desai makes no mistake. He beats He beats Magd Ahmed Ali Aldhubhani 11-1, 11-1, 11-7 in 16 minutes to secure the tie for India 3-0.

India next take on Singapore in Preliminary Group F of the men’s team event. They play Tajikistan tomorrow.

Asian Games, Table Tennis: The veteran, Achanta Sharath Kamal makes it 2-0 for India. He beat Ebrahim Abdulhakim Gubran 11-3, 11-4, 11-6 in 17 minutes.

Harmeet Desai now comes to the table. He plays Magd Ahmed Ali Aldhubhani for a chance to secure the tie for India.

Asian Games, Table Tennis: Sathiyan Gnanasekaran gives India the lead against Yemen, beating Omar Ahmed Ali 11-3, 11-2, 11-6 in a match that lasted 13 minutes. India up 1-0.

Achanta Sharath Kamal is up next. He takes on Ebrahim Abdulhakim Gubran.

Each tie is a best-of-five match event, the first team to win three matches wins the tie.

Asian Games, Table Tennis: The Indian men’s team won the bronze medal at the 2018 Asian Games. That was the first time India won a table tennis medal at the continental event.

The roster for the Indian men's table tennis match against Yemen (Courtesy: Asian Games)

Asian Games, Table Tennis: The table tennis get underway today starting with the team events. Both the men’s and women’s team will be in action today. First up, it will be the men’s team who will play Yemen in their group F match at 9.30am IST. The women will face Singapore in their group F match at 11.30am IST before the men face Singapore at 3.30pm IST.

Asian Games, Sailing: The sailing events have resumed today with Chitresh Tatha, Nethra Kumanan, Vishnu Saravanan, Ishwariya Ganesh, Eabad Ali and the team of Siddeshwar Indar Doiphode and Ramya Saravanan already in action in their respective events.

Hello and welcome to Scroll’s live blog of the Asian Games 2022, Hangzhou.

We are still one day away from the Asian Games opening ceremony in Hangzhou but many events are already underway.

On Thursday, the Indian contingent ended the day on a mixed note. While the women’s cricket team qualified for the semi-final with rain washing out the game against Malaysia, the men’s football team bounced back with a 1-0 win over Bangladesh.

However, the women’s football team lost their opening game against Chinese Taipei 1-2.

Meanwhile, the Indian sailors still have some races to go while the Indian rowers qualified for three medal finals.

Read: India at Asian Games 2022, as it happened: Women’s cricket team in SF; men’s football team wins

In action today are the Indian table tennis contingent, the men’s volleyball team in their first knock out match. Additionally, Indian rowers, sailors, will also continue the campaign they began on Friday.

India’s lone representative in modern pentathlon Chaphekar Mayank Vaibhav will also be in action.

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