India at Asian Games, Sept 28, as it happened: Men’s hockey beat Japan; football team knocked out

That’s it for Scroll’s coverage of the Hangzhou Asian Games 2022 for tonight.

Thursday was a mixed day for the Indian contingent. Medals were won in equestrian, shooting and wushu and there were some qualifications for semi-finals which ensured more medals. In tennis, the men’s doubles pair of Ramkumar Ramanathan and Saketh Myneni will have a shot at getting gold. As of today, India’s medal tally stands at 25 and currently stand sixth overall.

However, there were also some disappointing results. In table-tennis, the mixed doubles pair of G Sathiyan and Manika Batra lost to Singapore. The Indian men’s football team exited the tournament with a 0-2 loss against Saudi Arabia. And, World Championships bronze medallist Deepak Bhoria also exited with a R16 loss.

Bridge, Round Robin 1-8: Indian men’s team defeat Thailand 18.17-1.83, while the mixed team gets better of hosts China 16.55-3.45

Hockey, Men’s Pool A, India 4-2 Japan, FT: India secure all three points against Japan who were undoubtedly their biggest test in Pool A. An Abhishek brace and goals from Mandeep Singh and Amit Rohidas put India on the path to a comfortable win. But Japan hit back with two late goals to deny India a second clean sheet of the tournament.

Hockey, Men’s Pool A, India 4-2 Japan, Q4: Japan have another! Japan do to India what India have been doing to them the whole match. A superb pass from deep and the ball is played on to Ryosei Kato. The forward fends off his defender before unleashing an unstoppable tomahawk shot onto the roof of the net. What a wonderful goal.

Hockey, Men’s Pool A, India 4-1 Japan, Q4: Japan pull one back! Genki Mitani injects the ball to second castle and makes his way to the near post. The ball is flicked back to him and he deflects it past Sreejesh in goal.

Hockey, Men’s Pool A, India 4-0 Japan, Q4: Another injury concern and this time it is Vivek Sagar Prasad. The Indian midfielder catches the ball on his collar bone it seems after a Japanse drag-flick was deflected Prasad’s way from first rusher Amit Rohidas. He’s doubled over for a while but gets up and gives the bench the thumbs up. Prasad is no stranger to injuries having stitches on his face and shoulder from hockey injuries. Read about more about him here.

Hockey, Men’s Pool A, India 4-0 Japan, Q4: Oh that’s a nasty blow to Kaito Tanaka. Japan won a PC and Tanaka, after injecting the ball, ran towards goal to get a possible deflection or rebound. However, Sreejesh boots the ball accidentally straight to Tanaka who goes down clutching his face. There’s immediate concern from the Indian and Japanese players. Sreejesh, shaken, stands by the post as Tanaka is stretchered off with a bloody nose.

Hockey, Men’s Pool A, India 4-0 Japan, Q4: Abhishek scores again! What a superb team goal that and it all started with Sumit putting a crucial block as Japan attacked. Harmanpreet then stole possession and found Abhishek with a delightful pass. Abhishek plays a one-two with Mandeep which cuts open the Japanese defence and puts Yoshikawa in no-man’s land. Abhishek makes no mistake in front of an empty goal. Sublime!

Hockey, Men’s Pool A, India 3-0 Japan, Q3: Japan nearly pull one back! Krishan Pathak saves a shot but it squirms from between his leg and stick. Kato, makes a run at the far post and dives but his shot hits the side of goal.

Hockey, Men’s Pool A, India 3-0 Japan, Q3: Amit Rohidas scores! It doesn’t matter as Rohidas gets India the third goal. Hardik went to Rohidas in the second castle instead of Harmanpreet in the first. Rohidas let’s fly and the ball nearly bursts out of the net. An absolute rocket that!

Hockey, Men’s Pool A, India 2-0 Japan, Q3: India have the ball in the back of the net but it doesn’t count! Harmanpreet’s drag flick was saved by Yoshikawa. Lalit’s rebound was also saved but Sukhjeet put the ball in goal. However, the whistle had already gone for an Indian penalty corner.

Hockey, Men’s Pool A, India 2-0 Japan, Q3: And we’re back underway. It has been a really good performance so far from India. Japan have barely had a sniff at the Indian goal. And it is likely to continue in the second half.

Boxing: Ooof! Nishant lands a nasty combination that knocks Bui PT out in 1 min 38 seconds. The doctor came into check the Vietnamese and decided against letting him continue. That punch from Nishant was quite something. He progress into the quarters.

Hockey, Men’s Pool A, India 2-0 Japan, HT: No more goals in the first half. We get a look Mandeep’s goal. A superb through ball by Nilakanta Sharma and an onrushing Mandeep gets the telling touch to put it past Yoshikawa in the goal.

Football, men’s Round of 16, IND 0-2 KSA: FT India did well to hold off Saudi Arabia in the first half, but the second half saw a more fluid side that sent in more intuitive crosses for Marran to score two and send the Blue Tigers packing in the Round of 16 stage.

Much like in the opening game against China, India kept their composure in the first half, but fell away to the incredible pace of their opponent in the second half. Jhingan led admirably in defence while Dheeraj was good in goal, despite the scorelines. In attack though, the same problems as faced by the senior men’s team remain with no alternate goal-scoring threat other than Sunil Chhetri.

With this, the Indian campaign ends in the football events at Hangzhou.

Swimming, Women’s 4x200m Freestyle Relay Final: The Indian team comprising of Denidhi Desinghu, Shivangi Sarma, Vritti Agarwal, and Hashika Ramchandra clock 8:37.58s to better their own Best Indian time set in the heat. However, they finish last in the final by a big margin.

Boxing: World Championships bronze medallist Nishant Dev goes up against Vietnamese boxer Bui PT. After Deepak’s loss earlier this evening, the pressure on the Indian men’s boxing contingent to get a medal is high. Nishant is the next best bet.

Hockey, Men’s Pool A, India 2-0 Japan, Q2: Mandeep Singh scores for India. However, the broadcasters have switched the feed to show the women’s 4x200 freestyle swimming final so we do not know how Mandeep scored.

Football, men’s Round of 16, IND 0-2 KSA: 90+3’ Three minutes of added time as Bryce Miranda finally gets a good ball on the left and sends it into the box with the rebound falling to Rohit Danu who shoots it way over goal.

Hockey, Men’s Pool A, India 1-0 Japan, Q2: Nearly a second for India! Mandeep shows his quality holding off his marker and somehow creating space for himself in a crowded circle and shoots while falling. Yoshikawa, in the Japanese goal, makes an equally good save.

Football, men’s Round of 16, IND 0-2 KSA: 84’ Khalid Hussain has been brilliant for Saudi Arabia on the left flank, constantly outwitting the Indian player marking him. Dheeraj is forced to make a couple of good saves as just over five minutes plus added time remains.

Hockey, Men’s Pool A, India 1-0 Japan, End of Q1: That was a delightful flowing move from India which deserved a goal. Vivek Sagar Prasad plays a quick pass to Hardik who plays it forward first time to the marauding Jarmanpreet Singh on the right. The defender enters the circle and slaps the ball in front of goal. There is a goalmouth scramble but Japan come away with the ball. That is the last big move of the quarter.

Football, men’s Round of 16, IND 0-2 KSA: 78’ Sunil Chhetri hands the captain’s armband to Jhingan as he comes off for Rohit Danu. India have the veteran forward to thank for reaching the Round of 16 stage.

Hockey, Men’s Pool A, India 1-0 Japan, Q1: Abhishek scores! Hardik Singh flashes in a superb pass from the left towards Nilakanta Sharma in the circle. However, the ball is blocked by a Japanese defender. The loose ball comes to Abhishek who clears his feet quickly before shooting.

Swimming, Men’s 4x100m Freestyle Relay Final: The Indian quartet of Srihari Natraj, Anilkumar Shylaja Anand, Vishal Grewal, and Mathew Tanish George finish sixth fastest clocking 3:21.46s. This is slower than the time they recorded in the heats earlier.

Football, men’s Round of 16, IND 0-2 KSA: 73’ Another yellow card for India as Ayush Dev Chhetri tugs on the shirt of Saad to impend an attack. India now scrambling to try and control Saudi Arabia’s play to no avail.

Football, men’s Round of 16, IND 0-2 KSA: 67’ Triple substitutions for India as Bryce Miranda, Afzar Noorani and Arjun Dev Chhetri coming on for Rahim Ali, Abdul Rabeeh and Sana Singh. Narender Singh Gehlot loses his cool slightly and gets a yellow for following through on a tackle.

Hockey, Men’s Pool A, India 0-0 Japan, Q1: Amit Rohidas mis-traps a routine pass and Japan spring the counter. They look to get inside the circle from the right but Sumit puts in a well-timed tackle to take the ball away and kill the attack

Hockey, Men’s Pool A, India 0-0 Japan, Q1: Gurjant Singh wins the first penalty corner of the match. Harmanpreet Singh, who scores four times in the last match against Singapore, fires in his drag-flick low and hard but past the wrong side of the post.

Hockey, Men’s Pool A, India 0-0 Japan, Q1: How has Sukhjeet Singh missed that?! A trademark cross-field high ball is taken down superbly by Jarmanpreet Singh in the circle. The defender has all the time in the world to pick out his pass and he does so. Mandeep Singh misses right in front of goal but so does Sukhjeet Singh at the far post in front of an empty goal.

Football, men’s Round of 16, IND 0-1 KSA: 57’ Saudi Arabia score within five minutes! Saad sends in a good cross that goes past the Indian defence and Marran dribbles it expertly around Dheeraj to slot it into the net.

Hockey, Men’s Pool A, India vs Japan: After beating the unheralded Uzbekistan and Singapore 16-0 and 16-1 respectively, favourites India take on defending champions Japan. A win today would all but secure India’s place in the semi-finals (unless they implode spectacularly against Pakistan and Bangladesh in their remaining matches)

Football, men’s Round of 16, IND 0-1 KSA: 52’ Saudi Arabia score! A good cross is sent in and the lone forward in the box, Marran heads it in past a standing Jhingan and Dheeraj.

Swimming, Men’s 800m Freestyle Fast Heat: India’s Aryan Nehra and Kushagra Rawat finish seventh and eighth respectively. While Nehra clocked 8:04.06s, Rawat came in almost 10s later at 8:14.01s.

Boxing: Tomoya Tsuboi defeats Deepak by a 4:1 decision. The commentators said Tsuboi was dubbed trickster, and he does live up to his name. This will come as a big shock for the Indian boxing contingent since Deepak is one of the strongest boxers in the circuit. The World Championships bronze medallist exits from the tournament.

Football, men’s Round of 16, IND 0-0 KSA: HT It’s goalless at half-time although Saudi Arabia have had the better of chances. India’s defence has held up well, albeit a bit thrown off by the pace of the Saudi attack.

Football, men’s Round of 16, IND 0-0 KSA: 45+2’ Two minutes of additional time as Igor Stimac makes his first substitution with Samuel Kynshi coming on for Gurkirat Singh.

Boxing: What footwork from both the boxers! A little closer in terms of points for the boxers but Tsuboi continues to lead. Deepak needs a massive comeback in the third round for a split decision to go his way.

Football, men’s Round of 16, IND 0-0 KSA: 40’ Another rash challenge from India and Gurkirat Singh is the second player to be shown the yellow. A freekick for Saudi Arabia and Dheeraj judges well to save it. The pace of the Arab team is too much for India to keep up – in both defence and attack.

Boxing: Both fast-moving boxers and hence, plenty of action but Tsuboy’s speed stands out. He also lands a flurry of punches that Deepak gets trapped trying to defend. The Japanese takes the first round on all five cards.

Tennis, mixed doubles, quarter-final, IND 2-0 KAZ: Another medal assured for India in tennis! Rohan Bopanna and Rutuja Bhosale power through the second set to beat Kazakhstan’s Grigoriy Lomakin and Zhibek Kulambayeva 7-5, 6-3 and reach the semi-finals in the mixed doubles draw. The pair won four games on the trot to lead 4-1 before eventually closing out the match with a love-hold

Football, men’s Round of 16, IND 0-0 KSA: 35’ Saudi Arabia slowly putting more pressure on the Indian backline with Saad and Musad creating more of the chances.

Boxing: Earlier in the day, Jaismine started her campaign with a dominant win. In action now is Deepak in the men’s 51kg Round of 16 against Tomoya Tsubo of Japan in what is his second bout of the tournament.

Football, men’s Round of 16, IND 0-0 KSA: 30’ Konsham tackles Zakaria and is given a yellow. Saudi Arabia’s freekick taken by Musab goes wide of the goal.

Football, men’s Round of 16, IND 0-0 KSA: 25’ A good passage of play for India as they dominate the possession, but Saudi Arabia have a good shot on goal only for Dheeraj to clear the rebound after it hit the goal post.

Golf: Today saw the start of action at the West Lake International Golf Course in the men’s and women’s individual and team events. Aditi Ashok is T2 in the women’s individual event after round 1 with Pranavi Urs T17 and Avani Prashanth T21. The trio are fifth in the team event behind China, Japan, Thailand and South Korea.


In the men’s individual event, Anirban Lahiri is the best-placed Indian at T9 with SSP Chawrasia at T19, Shubhankar Sharma at T22 and Khalin Joshi at T31. The quartet are T5 with Hong Kong, China behind South Korea, Singapore, Japan and Thailand.

Football, men’s Round of 16, IND 0-0 KSA: 19’ A corner won for India and is sent into the box to Sandesh Jhingan who tries to head it into goal but comes off the line and is cleared away.

Football, men’s Round of 16, IND 0-0 KSA: 12’ A nice bit of play gets Sunil Chhetri in the game who shoots it straight into the hands of the Saudi goalkeeper.

Tennis, mixed doubles, quarter-final, IND 1-0 KAZ: Rohan Bopanna and Rutuja Bhosale take the first set 7-5 against Kazakhstan’s Grigoriy Lomakin and Zhibek Kulambayeva. Both Bhosale and Kulambayeva lost their respective first service games. But just as it looked we would be going to tiebreaks, the Indian pair broke Kulambayeva again to take the set.

Football, men’s Round of 16, IND 0-0 KSA: 6’ Chance for Saudi Arabia to attack but the player is called offside.

Football: The Indian men’s team will be in action against Saudi Arabia, who are currently unbeaten in this Asian Games, in the Round of 16.

Squash: Pakistan winning the tie 3-0 against Kuwait means that India finish second in the men’s team Pool A and are guaranteed a medal.

Tennis, mixed doubles, quarter-final, IND vs KAZ: Rohan Bopanna and Rutuja Bhosale will play Kazakhstan’s Grigoriy Lomakin and Zhibek Kulambayeva for a spot in the semi-final. A win here will guarantee the winners a medal.

Tennis, Men’s doubles, semi-final, IND 6-1, 6-7 (6), 10-0 KOR: For the seventh time in the last eight editions of the Asian Games, going back to 1994, there is an Indian men’s doubles team in the final of the tennis event. Ramkumar Ramanathan and Saketh Myneni have a chance to become the fifth Indian pair since 2002 to win the gold medal. They beat South Korea’s Seongchan Hong and Soonwoo Kwon in a fiesty three-set match. Myneni had partnered Sanam Singh to the final in South Korea in 2014 but lost in straight-sets. On Friday, he will have a chance to win a first men’s doubles gold.

Table Tennis, men’s singles R32: G Sathiyan is through to the round of 16 with a 11-5, 11-6, 11-9, 11-2 win over Saudi Arabia’s Turki Lafi Almutairi.

Tennis, Men’s doubles, semi-final, IND 1-1 KOR: In a match that has started to get a lot more vocal from both teams, the Koreans win the second set 7-6 (6). A super-tiebreak (first to 10 with a difference of two) will decide who goes through to the final.

Table Tennis, men’s singles R32: G Sathiyan now up 2-0, winning the second game 11-6.

Table Tennis, men’s singles R32: Sathiyan Gnanasekaran wins the first game 11-5 against Saudi Arabia’s Turki Lafi Almutairi.

Table Tennis, men’s singles R32: Achanta Sharath Kamal is through to the round of 16 in the men’s singles event after beating Maldives’ Mohamed Shaffan Ismail 11-9, 11-2, 11-7, 11-7

Table Tennis, men’s singles R32: Achanta Sharath Kamal takes a 2-0 lead against Mohamed Shaffan Ismail of Maldives. He won the first two games 11-9, 11-2 in this best of seven match.

Equestrian, dressage: Anush Agarwalla and Etro clinch bronze in the individual dressage event! The pair scored 73.030%. Agarwalla and Etro are India’s first-ever individual dressage medal winners! Hriday Chhedha was eliminated after his horse was seen to be bleeding.

Squash, men’s Pool A: India seal a 3-0 win in under an hour as Harinder Pal Sandhu beats Amir Bhlon 11-1, 11-2, 11-6. The result of the tie between Pakistan and Kuwait will determine who finishes in the top two spots of Pool A.

Tennis, Men’s doubles, semi-final, IND 1-0 KOR: Good start from Ramkumar Ramanathan and Saketh Myneni. Barely a foot wrong as they win the first set 6-1 against South Korea’s Seongchan Hong and Soonwoo Kwon.

Table Tennis, women’s doubles R32: Sutirtha Mukherjee and Ayhika Mukherjee are through to the Round of 16. They beat Kazakhstan’s Zauresh Akasheva and Anastassiya Lavrova 11-7, 11-4, 11-7.

Table Tennis, women’s doubles R32: Sutirtha Mukherjee and Ayhika Mukherjee are now up 2-0. They won the second game 11-4 against the Kazakhs. Now just a game away from a spot in the Round of 16.

Table Tennis, women’s doubles R32: Sutirtha Mukherjee and Ayhika Mukherjee win the first game 11-7 against Kazakhstan’s Zauresh Akasheva and Anastassiya Lavrova.

Squash, men’s Pool A: Mahesh Mangaonkar makes it 2-0 for India, winning 11-2, 11-3, 11-3 against Arhant Keshar Simha, also in 17 minutes.

Tennis, Men’s doubles, semi-final, IND vs KOR: Another tough match coming up for the second seeds from India Ramkumar Ramanathan and Saketh Myneni. They take on South Korea’s Soonwoo Kwon and Seongchan Hong. The Indians are already guaranteed a medal, but a win here will take the to the gold-medal match.

Table Tennis, women’s doubles R32: Sreeja Akula and Diya Chitale beat Vietnam’s Ngoc Mai Tran adn Nga Thi Nguyen 11-8, 15-13, 11-6 in their women’s doubles match. They now move into the Round of 16.

Squash, men’s Pool A: India take a 1-0 lead in the Pool tie against Nepal as Singh beats Thapa 11-2, 11-4, 11-1 in just 17 minutes.

Table Tennis, women’s doubles R32: Sreeja Akula and Diya Chitale are now 2-0 up, winning the second game 15-13 against the Vietnam team.

Table Tennis, women’s doubles R32: Sreeja Akula and Diya Chitale win the first game 11-8 against Vietnam’s Ngoc Tran Mai and Nga Thi Nguyen.

Squash, men’s Pool A: India begin their final team Pool encounter against Nepal with Abhay Singh first up against Amrit Magar Thapa.

Bridge, Round Robin 1-6: The Indian men’s team lose 10.97-9.03 to Japan, while the mixed team hold Chinese Taipei to 10-10 draw. India beat Indonesia 11.28-8.72 in the women’s match.

Gymnastics, Women’s Vault Final: Pranati Nayak finishes 8th with a score of 12.350. India’s wait for a second Asian Games medal in gymnastics will stretch longer. Ashish Kumar’s bronze in men’s floor from the 2010 Games remains India’s only gymnastics medal at the continental games.

Gymnastics, Women’s Vault Final: Pranati scored high on difficulty with her first vault, but the blip in execution means that she is placed fourth with an average of 12.350 after both attempts.

Gymnastics, Women’s Vault Final: Much better from Pranati Nayak in her second attempt and she has a smile on her face.

Gymnastics, Women’s Vault Final: Pranati Nayak fails to execute her first vault properly. She falls while attempting a double twist

Cycling, Women’s Sprint 1/16 Final Repechage: Triyasha Paul loses to South Korea’s Hwang Hyeonseo by +0.056s. She is out of contention for a medal.

Cycling, Men’s Sprint: David Beckham finishes last in 5th-8th classification. He ends his sprint campaign at 8th position.

Squash: The Indian women’s team finishes second in pool B behind Malaysia and reach the semi-final where they will play the undefeated Hong Kong, China. By reaching the last-four, the Indian team has assured itself of a medal!

Boxing: Jaismine wins by RSC in the second round! Ashour had already gotten a standing eight count in this round too and Jaismine just proved to be too strong to keep up with. Great start of a campaign for the Indian.

Boxing: The Saudi boxer’s inexperience is showing against Jaismine. Major difference in quality between the two. Ashour gets a standing eight count in the first round. Jaismine takes round one on all five cards including a 10-7.

Boxing: In action now is Jaismine against Ashour Hadeel Ghazwan in the women’s 60kg Round of 16. Jaismine will be hoping to keep the positive results for the Indian female pugilists coming.

Squash, women’s Pool B: Despite saving over three match points, Anahat Singh goes down in straight games 7-11, 8-11, 12-14 in the final match against Rachel Mae Arnold and Malaysia win the tie 3-0.

Squash, women’s Pool B: Arnold dominating for the most part in the second game and takes a 2-0 lead in the match. Anahat coming in with some good plays but unfortunately trails 7-11, 8-11 against the Malaysian.

Squash, women’s Pool B: Anahat Singh had the lead early in the game but Rachel Mae Arnold takes the opening game 11-7. Malaysia lead the tie 2-0.

Squash, women’s Pool B: A good final game but Khanna loses 11-9, 1-11, 11-8, 11-13, 5-11 to Azwan and Malaysia take a 2-0 lead in the tie. Next up Anahat Singh against Rachel Mae Arnold.

Squash, women’s Pool B: Khanna constantly had the lead but a gripping game sees Aifa Azwan level the match at two games all and into a deciding game. Khanna 11-9, 1-11, 11-8, 11-13 Azwan.

Table Tennis, men’s doubles R32: Quick work by Achanta Sharath Kamal and G Sathiyan to win the match 11-5, 11-3, 11-3 against Mongolia’s Ser-Od Gankhuyag and Manlaijargal Munkh-Ochir and move into the Round of 16.

Table Tennis, men’s doubles R32: Achanta Sharath Kamal and G Sathiyan clinch the second game 11-3 to take a 2-0 lead over the Mongolians. One more game and they’re through to the Round of 16.

Squash, women’s Pool B: Tanvi Khanna retakes the lead in the match, winning the third game 11-7. Khanna leads 11-9, 1-11, 11-7 while Malaysia lead 1-0 in the tie.

Table Tennis, men’s doubles R32: Achanta Sharath Kamal and G Sathiyan win the first game 11-5 against Mongolia’s Ser-Od Gankhuyag and Manlaijargal Munk-Ochir.

Squash, women’s Pool B: The Malaysian levels the match at 1 game all in quick time. Malaysia currently lead the tie 1-0.

Squash, women’s Pool B: Aifa Azman gives a good fight but India’s Tanvi Khanna takes wins the opening game in the second match of the group tie against Malaysia.

Table Tennis, men’s doubles R32: Manush Shah and Manav Thakkar are through to the men’s doubles Round of 16 after an 11-6, 9-11, 11-6, 11-2 over Maldives team Moosa Ahmed and Mohamed Ismail.

Golf, women’s event: Aditi Ashok finishes the first round tied in 2nd place with five other golfers, with a score of 67. Pranavi Sharath URS is tied 17th on 71, and Avani Prashanth is tied 21 on 72 at the end of the day’s play. The Indian team is placed fifth in the team standings.

Table Tennis, men’s doubles R32: Manush Shah and Manav Thakkar win the third game 11-3. They’re up 2-1 and need one more game to win the match.

Squash, women’s Pool B: Chinappa gave a closer fight in the third game, but Sivasangari makes no mistake and gives Malaysia a 1-0 lead in the tie, winning the opening match 11-6 11-2 11-8.

Table Tennis, men’s doubles R32: The team from the Maldives level’s the match, winning the second game 11-9.

Squash, women’s Pool B: Sivasangari quite quick in her rallies and not allowing Chinappa much room as the Malaysian takes a two-game lead in the match, winning the second game 11-2.

Table Tennis, men’s doubles R32: The young team of Manush Shah and Manav Thakkar win the first game 11-8 against Maldives’ Moosa Munsif Ahmed and Mohamed Shaffan Ismail.

Squash, women’s Pool B: Malaysia’s Sivasangari Subramaniam, the world No 18, takes the first game 11-6 over Joshna Chinappa. Both teams are unbeaten so far in the Pool.

Squash: The Pool encounters for both the men’s and women’s teams will end today. India will take on Malaysia in the Women’s Pool B at 10AM IST and Nepal in the men’s Pool A at 1:30PM IST.

Table Tennis, women’s singles R32: Manika Batra takes 20 minutes to beat Nepal’s Nabita Shrestha 11-5, 11-4, 11-3, 11-2 to move into the Round of 16.

Women’s 4x200m Freestyle Relay team is through to the final.

Shooting, Skeet mixed team qualification: India finish their shooting events for the day as Anantjeet Singh Naruka and Ganemat Sekhon finish seventh with a total score of 138 and fail to qualify for the final.

Table Tennis, women’s singles R32: Manika Batra wins the first game 11-5 against Nepal’s Nabita Shrestha.

Shooting, 10m air pistol individual men’s final: A good recovery in the end from Sarabjot, but the Korean shooter proves just a tad better and Sarabjot finishes in 4th place with a total score of 199.0.

Table Tennis, women’s singles R32: Manika Batra in action next. She takes on Nepal’s Nabita Shrestha.

Swimming, Women’s 4x200m Freestyle Relay Heat 1: The quartet of Denidhi Desinghu, Shivangi Sarma, Vritti Agarwal, and Hashika Ramchandra clock 8:39.64s. This is a Best Indian time with a massive improvement of 14 seconds.

Shooting, 10m air pistol individual men’s final: Sarabjot survives the elimination shootoff against Malaysia and is on level scores with the Chinese shooter Zhang Bowen.

Cycling, Men’s Omnium: India’s Niraj Kumar has a DNS (did not start) against his name in the Tempo Race.

Shooting, 10m air pistol individual men’s final: With final shots of 9.1 and 8.5, Arjun Singh Cheema is the first to be eliminated and finishes eighth with a total score of 113.3

Table Tennis, women’s singles R32: Sreeja Akula loses 6-11, 4-11, 13-15, 9-11 to North Korea’s Songgyong Pyon

Shooting, 10m air pistol individual men’s final: Not the best round of shots from both Indians as Sarabjot slips to fifth place after shooting a couple of sub 10 scores. Arjun Singh Cheema is in eighth spot.

Swimming, Men’s 4x100m Freestyle Relay Heat 2: The Indian quartet of Mathew Tanish George, Grewal Vishal, Anilkumar Shylaja Anand, and Srihari Natraj clock 3:21.22 to finish third in their heat. They are also the fifth fastest overall and are through to the Final with a Best Indian Time.

Shooting, 10m air pistol individual men’s final: Still early days but Sarabjot Singh gets a good start after five shots and is in second place. Arjun Singh Cheema is in seventh place.

Table Tennis, women’s singles R32: Much tighter third game, but the North Korean still manages to get the better of Sreeja Akula. Songgyong Pyon wins the third 15-13 to go 3-0 up against the Indian.

Shooting, 10m air pistol individual men’s final: The final is about to get underway with Sarabjot Singh and Arjun Singh Cheema in contention to win a medal for India after having won gold in the team event.

Bridge, Round Robin 1-5: The Indian men’s team registers a 16.72-3.28 win over South Korea, while the mixed team wins 14.85-5.15 against Indonesia.

Cycling, Women’s Sprint 1/16 Final: Triyasha Paul loses to Sato Mina of Japan. The Indian moves into 1/16 Repechage rounds.

Table Tennis, women’s singles R32: Sreeja Akula now trails 0-2, losing the second game 11-4.

Table Tennis, women’s singles R32: Sreeja Akula loses the opening game 6-11 to North Korea’s Songgyong Pyon.

Cycling, Men’s Sprint Quarter-Final: Japan’s Ota Kaiya wins the second race against David Beckham. The Indian fell short by +0.046s this time. This was after Beckham endured a bad fall and the race had to be restarted.

Golf, women’s event: Aditi Ashok is tied 2nd now while Pranavi Sharath URS is tied 17 and Avani Prashanth is tied 21. India is fourth in the team event.

Cycling, Women’s Sprint Qualifying: Triyasha Paul clocks 11.616s and is the 15th fastest. She is through to the next round. On the other hand, Mayuri Dhanraj Lute finishes last with 11.787s. Lute is the only cyclist to be eliminated from the qualifying round.

Table Tennis, mixed doubles: Big upset here. The world No 8 team of G Sathiyan and Manika Batra let go of a 2-0 lead to lose 2-3 to Singapore’s Clarence Chew and Jian Zeng, the world No 28 team. They lose 11-7, 11-9, 11-13, 10-12, 3-11.

Shooting, Skeet mixed team qualification: India continue the fight for that coveted sixth place spot with Thailand as both teams are on 92 points.

Golf: The men’s event gets underway. Anirban Lahiri, Shubhankar Sharma, Khalin Joshi and SSP Chawrasia will be in action.

Table Tennis, mixed doubles: Clarence Chew and Jian Zeng win the fourth game 12-10 to take this match into the decider against G Sathiyan and Manika Batra. 2-2!

Cycling, Men’s Omnium: Niraj Kumar is placed ninth after the scratch race with 24 points. Omnium is a combination of four types of races - scratch, tempo, elimination, and points race. Niraj will compete in the tempo race around an hour from now.

Table Tennis, mixed doubles: Clarence Chew and Jian Zeng win the third game 13-11. The Singaporeans deny G Sathiyan and Manika Batra a straight-games wins. Sathiyan and Batra are 2-1, needing just one more game to move to the quarter-final.

Table Tennis, mixed doubles: Harmeet Desai and Sreeja Akula lose 4-11, 6-11, 10-12 to Thailand’s Phakpoom Sanguansin and Orawan Paranang in the Round of 16 match.

Swimming, Men’s 50m Butterfly Heat 5: Virdhawal Khade finishes seventh with a time of 24.67s. He is 19th fastest overall and is out of contention for the final.

Shooting, 10m air pistol men’s qualification: Brilliant comeback from Sarabjot Singh to qualify in fifth place for the final of the individual event. Arjun Singh Cheema makes it two Indian shooters in the final, finishing in eightth place. Shiva Narwal misses out by finishing the qualification event in 14th place. However, because of the combined efforts of the three, India win GOLD in the 10m air pistol men’s team event! The total score for India was 1734-50x, just one point ahead of China. It’s the first medal for India in shooting today and the second medal overall.

Cycling, Men’s Sprint Quarter-final: David Beckham loses Race 1 of the Quarter-final to Japan’s Ota Kaiya. He has two more races left to turn things around.

Table Tennis, mixed doubles: Harmeet Desai and Sreeja Akula trail Thailand’s Phakpoom Sanguansin and Orawan Paranang 0-2. The lost the first two game 4-11, 6-11.

Table Tennis, mixed doubles: G Sathiyan and Manika Batra win the second game 11-9. They lead 2-0 against the duo from Singapore.

Swimming, Women’s 50m Freestyle Heat 2: Shivangi Sarma clocks 26.92s to finish seventh. She is 18th fastest overall and is out of contention for a spot in the final.

Shooting, Skeet mixed team qualification: Thailand have edged ahead as Naruka and Sekhon are now placed seventh with a total score of 57.

Golf: Aditi Ashok climbs to Tied 4, Pranavi Sharath URS is tied 14 and Avani Prashanth is tied 21. India is tied 4th in the team event at the moment.

Table Tennis, mixed doubles: G Sathiyan and Manika Batra win the opening game 11-7 over Singapore’s Clarence Chew and Jian Zeng.

Badminton, Women’s Team R16: India are through to the quarter-finals. Anupama Upadhyaya wins the third match 21-0, 21-2 to help India take an unassailable 3-0 lead.

Table Tennis, mixed doubles: G Sathiyan and Manika Batra take on Singapore’s Clarence Chew and Jian Zeng for a spot in the quarter-final.

Shooting, 10m air pistol men’s qualification: Arjun Singh Cheema continues to be the only Indian shooter in contention for a finals spot, currently ranked in 7th place after 4.5 series completed. Sarabjot Singh is in 12th place after four series rounds and Shiva Narwal is in 15th place after 3.5 rounds. India are currently ranked third in the team standings.

Wushu, Women’s 60kg: The 2018 Jakarta bronze medallist, Naorem Roshibina Devi upgrades to silver in Hangzhou. She loses 0-2 to home favourite Wu Xiaowei after a rather close fight in the second round. India’s medal tally moves up to 23.

Badminton, Women’s Team R16: Ashmita Chaliha follows in PV Sindhu’s footsteps and registers a 21-2, 21-3 win in 21 minutes. India take a 2-0 lead and are just a match away from entering the quarter-finals.

Shooting, Skeet mixed team qualification: Naruka and Sekhon are currently tied for 6th place along with Thailand; both teams are on 45 points each.

Shooting, 10m air pistol men’s qualification: Arjun Singh Cheema is now up in 6th place after three series with scores of 97, 96, 97. The top eight qualify for the final. Sarabjot Singh and Shiva Narwal are 22nd and 36th halfway through their third series.

Golf: Aditi Ashok is Tied 7 at the moment, Pranavi Sharath URS and Avani Prashanth are Tied 17.

Badminton, Women’s Team R16: PV Sindhu concedes just five points in the match. She wins 21-2, 21-3 in just 20 minutes to help India to a 1-0 lead in their tie against Mongolia. Ashmita Chaliha will take on Kherlen Darkhanbaatar next.

Shooting, Skeet mixed team qualification: India are currently in 6th place with Naruka and Sekhon having scores of 16 and 13 to equal a team total of 29.

Shooting, 10m air pistol men’s qualification: Arjun Singh Cheema has completed his first series and is currently 15th with a score of 97 so far. Both Sarabjot Singh and Shiva Narwal are halfway through their first series, ranked 37th and 52nd with scores of 47 and 45 respectively.

Badminton, Women’s Team R16: PV Sindhu races to a 16-0 lead before winning the first game 21-2. A cakewalk, as expected for the two-time Olympic medallist against the unheralded shuttler from Mongolia.

Golf: The women’s golf event is already underway. Aditi Ashok, Pranavi Sharath URS and Avani Prashanth are competing for the Indian team.

Badminton, Women’s Team R16: The Indian shuttlers start their campaign against Mongolia. PV Sindhu is the first in action against Myagmartseren Ganbaatar.

Shooting: In the 10m air rifle men’s team event, we have Sarabjot Singh, Arjun Singh Cheema and Shiva Narwal. The skeet mixed team will see yesterday’s silver and bronze medallist Anant Jeet Singh Naruka and Ganemat Sekhon represent India.

Medal Tally: At the beginning of Day 5, India has 5 gold, 7 silver and 10 bronze medals for a total of 22. Expect these numbers to go up in a few hours.

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On Wednesday, India added seven medals to take the medal tally to 22. The shooters were the stars of the day with sailor Vishnu Saravanan also adding one to the tally.

On Thursday, all eyes will be on Hriday Chheda and Anush Agarwalla in Individual Dressage, skeet shooters Anantjeet Singh and Ganemat Sekhon, gymnast Pranati Nayak, wushu star Naorem Roshibina Devi.

Meanwhile, Indian shuttlers will be in action for the first time. All Indian paddlers, including heavyweights Manika Batra, Sharath Kamal Achanta, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, will be in action as well.

The Indian men’s hockey team will look to continue their winning spree when they take on Japan. The Indian men’s football team will take on Saudi Arabia in the Round of 16.

Meanwhile, in tennis, the men’s doubles pair of Saketh Myneni-Ramkumar Ramanathan will aim to make it to the gold medal match. Additionally, the mixed doubles duo of Rohan Bopanna and Rutuja Bhosale will look to assure a medal by winning the quarter-final.

In boxing, Jaismine, Deepak and Nishant Dev will compete in their respective R16 bouts.

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