Asian Games Day 7 Highlights: India bag gold in squash, tennis; silver-bronze in men's 10,000m final
Asian Games 2023 Day 7 Highlights: India's Sarabjot Singh, Divya TS clinched silver in the 10m air pistol mixed team final, losing to China in a thriller.

Asian Games 2023 Day 7 Highlights: Rohan Bopanna and Rutuja Bhosale won gold in the mixed doubles tennis final on Day 7 of the ongoing Asian Games 2023 in Hangzhou. The Indian pair defeated Chinese Taipei's En-shuo, Tsung-hao Huang. The Indian trio of Saurav Ghosal, Abhay Singh, and Mahesh Mangaonkar won gold in the men's team squash event, defeating Pakistan 2-1 in the final. Kartik Kumar and Gulveer Singh produced a superb show in men's 10,000m final as they won silver and bronze medal respectively. Sarabjot Singh and Divya TS crashed to a narrow defeat against China in the 10m air pistol mixed team final and had to be content with silver. The Indian pair of Sutirtha Mukherjee and Ayhika Mukherjee assured India of a bronze in the women's doubles table-tennis quaterfinals as they defeated China's and world number two pair Chen Weng and Yidi Weng 11-5, 11-5, 5-11, 11-9. Meanwhile, the men's badminton team outplayed Korea 3-2 to storm into the finals, which assures them of a silver....Read More
In athletics Murali Sreeshankar has qualified for the men's long jump final and Jyothi Yarraji Nithya Ramraj have made it to the women's 100m hurdles final. Meanwhile in women's golf, Aditi Ashok is closing on a medal and ended the day in pole position in individual round 3. Also in women's team golf round 3, India finished the day on top. Meanwhile, Preeti and Lovlina Borgohain assured India of medals by entering the semifinals of their respective boxing categories.
The Indian men's hockey team hammered Pakistan 10-2 in the Pool A encounter.
India's medal tally:
Gold: 10
Silver: 14
Bronze: 14
Results -
Athletics: Jyothi Yarraji finishes second in women's 100 hurdles round 1 - Heat 1
Murali Sreeshankar and Jeswin Aldrin qualify for men's long jump final
Nithya Ramraj qualifies for women's 100m hurdles final
Jinson Johnson qualifies for men's 1500m final
Ajay Kumar Saroj qualifies for men's 1500m final
Shooting: India clinch SILVER in 10m air pistol mixed team final
Roller skating: Arathy Raj 5th in women's 10000m speed skating final
Anandkumar Velkumar 6th, Siddhant Kamble 7th in men's 10000m speed skating final
Tennis: Rohan Bopanna, Rutuja Bhosala clinch GOLD in mixed doubles final
Kurash: Pincky Balhara loses to Uzbek Sitora Elmurodova in women's 52kg quarterfinal
Equestrian: Vivek Ashish Limaye finishes on top in individual eventing dressage routine
Apurva Kishor Dabhade 8th in individual eventing dressage routine
Vikas Kumar 16th in individual eventing dressage routine
India finish 3rd in team eventing dressage routine
Volleyball: India lose 1-3 to South Korea in women's volleyball preliminary round Pool A fixture
Table tennis: India lose to South Korea in men's doubles quarterfinal
Manika Batra loses to China's Wang Yidi in women's singles quarterfinals
Boxing: Preeti Pawar beats Kazakhstan's Zhaina Shekerbekova to enter women's 54kg semifinal
Lovlina Borgohain beats South Korea's Suyeon Seong to enter semifinal of women's 75kg category
Narender beats Iran's Iman in the men's 92kg category, enters semifinal
3x3 basketball: India Women seal 16-6 win vs Malaysia to book quarterfinal berth, where they endure 10-21 defeat against Chinese Taipei
Squash: The Indian men's team beat Pakistan 2-1 to win gold
Asian Games 2023 Day 7 Live Updates: IND 10-2 PAK men's hockey
India beat Pakistan 10-2 in the men's hockey Pool A encounter.
Skipper Harmanpreet Singh scored four goals. Mandeep, Sumit, Lalit Upadhyay, and Shamsher scored one goal each, while Varun completed a brace.
Asian Games 2023 Day 7 Live Updates: Diving
Indians are placed sixth in men’s synchronised 3m springboard with a score of 279.87.
Asian Games 2023 Day 7 Live Updates: India march into finals
Kidambi Srikanth rallies from behind and beats Korea's Cho Geonyeop 21-14 in the third game and that will be it as India march into the final of men's team badminton.
Srikanth beats Cho Geonyeop 12-21, 21-16, 21-14
India win the semifinals 3-2, with all the three wins coming in singles contest.
Asian Games 2023 Day 7 Live Updates: Srikanth fightback
Kidambi Srikanth forces the men's team badminton semifinals into the decider.
With both Korea and India at 2-2, Srikanth concedes the opening game 12-21 against Cho Geonyeop, but wins the second game 21-16.
The third game is underway.
Asian Games 2023 Day 7 Live Updates: Bridge team points/rank at end of play
Men’s Team: 205.98, Rank 2
Mixed Team: 178.62, Rank 4
Women’s Team:69.1, Rank 7
Asian Games 2023 Day 7 Live Updates: India lead 4-0
India lead 4-0 against Pakistan after the end of first-half of the men's hockey Pool A encounter.
Asian Games 2023 Day 7 Live Updates: Women’s 3x3 basketball quarterfinals
India loses to Chinese Taipei in the women’s 3x3 basketball quarterfinals 10-21.
Asian Games 2023 Day 7 Live Updates: Men's boxing
Nishant Dev goes down against Japan’s Sewonrets Quincy Mensah in the men's 71kg boxing quarterfinals.
Sewonrets Quincy Mensah beats Nishant 5-0.
Asian Games 2023 Day 7 Live Updates: Bindyarani Devi finishes fifth

Bindyarani Devi finishes lifts 83kg in snatch and 113kg in clean and jerk and finishes fifth in the women's 55kg weightlifting event. A look at the final result after both snatch and clean and jerk.
Asian Games 2023 Day 7 Live Updates: Women's 55 kg weightlifting
After lifting 83kg in the snatch round, Bindyarani Devi does decent in the clean and jerk round.
She lifts 109 kg in her first attempt, then tries to lift 113 kg in the second but it is an unsuccessful one. She does manage to lift it in her third and final attempt, which took her total to 196kg.
Asian Games 2023 Day 7 Live Updates: Badminton Men's team semifinal
South Korea have levelled the match at 2-2 against India after Arjun Ramachandran Madathil and Kapilda Dhruv go 16-21, 11-21 down to Kim Wonho and Na Sungseung. The semifinal tie is now down to the deciding Match 5 where Kidambi Srikanth is up against Cho Geonyeop.
Asian Games 2023 Day 7 Live Updates: India win silver and bronze
Kartik Kumar and Gulveer Singh produce a superb show in men's 10,000m final as they win silver and the bronze medal respectively.
Bahrain's Birhanu Yemataw Balew finished at the top, clocking 28:13.62
Kartik Kumar finished second, clocking 28:15.38
Gulveer Singh finished third, clocking 28:17.21
Asian Games 2023 Day 7 Live Updates: Badminton Men's team semifinal
India's Dhruv Kapila and Arjun Ramachandran Madathil lose the opening game 16-21 against Kim Wonho and Na Sungseung.
India, however, are leading 2-1 in the semifinal match with both the wins coming in the singles category.
Asian Games 2023 Day 7 Live Updates: Chess round 2 results
Indian men’s team drew with Uzbekistan 2.0-2.0.
Indian women’s team defeats Vietnam 2.5-0.5
Asian Games 2023 Day 7 Live Updates: Athletics Men's 400m final
India's Muhammed Ajmal Variyathodi finish fifth after clocking 45.97 in the men's 400m final.
Saudi Arabia's Yousef Ahmed M Masrahi bagged the gold, Kentaro Sato of Japan finished second while Abbas Yusuf Abbas Ali of Bahrain bagged bronze.
Asian Games 2023 Day 7 Live Updates: Badminton Men's team semifinal
Lakshya Sen, utter dominance in the second game against South Korea's Yungyu Lee, won Match 2 of the semifinal tie 21-7, 21-9.
India hence lead 2-1 against South Korea in the best-of-five encounter. If India win the next tie, they will be through to the gold-medal match
Asian Games 2023 Day 7 Live Updates: Athletics Women's 400m final
India's Aishwarya Kailash Mishra narrowly missed out on the bronze-medla spot as she finished 4th after clocking 53.50. Bahrain's Oluwakemi Mujidat Adekoya bagged the gold followed by her compatriot Salwa Eid Naser while Malaysia's Vallabouy Shereen Samson finished third
Asian Games 2023 Day 7 Live Updates: Women’s 55kg weightlifting

This is how things stand after all the three snatch rounds of women’s 55kg weightlifting event.
We now move to clean and jerk.
Asian Games 2023 Day 7 Live Updates: Men's synchronised 3m springboard final
London Singh and Siddharth Pardeshi are placed sixth after round four of the men's synchronised 3m springboard final. They have a total of 169.17 points. China, who are leading the charts, have accumulated 267.18 points.
Asian Games 2023 Day 7 Live Updates: Badminton Men's team semifinal
Whast sheer dominance from Lakshya Sen of India in Match 3 against Lee Yungyu. He started off slugglishly before taking a 11-7 lead at the mid-game interval and later won 10 straight points in a row to not allow his South Korean opponent back into the game. He leads 1-0 in Match 3 of the semifinal tie
Asian Games 2023 Day 7 Live Updates: India assured of medal
Sutirtha Mukherjee and Ayhika Mukherjee produce a superb show in the fourth game of the women's doubles quarterfinals in table-tennis. China's Chen Weng and Yidi Weng produced a tough fight but it is the Indian pair who prevail and closes the game 11-9. The Chinese pair had four match points to save and they save three before making an unforced error.
The win sends India into the semis, also assuring them of a bronze medal.
After dominating the first two games, India endured a hiccup in the third game before winning the fourth. IND 3-1 CHN (11-5, 11-5, 5-11, 11-9)
Asian Games 2023 Day 7 Live Updates: Weightlifting
Bindyarani failed to lift 83kg in her second attempt, which comes as a huge blow since the DPR Korean lifters had already registered successful lifts over 90kg.
She manages to lift 83kg in her third and final snatch attempt.
Asian Games 2023 Day 7 Live Updates: Table-tennis women's doubles quarterfinals
A few unforced error by Sutirtha Mukherjee and Ayhika Mukherjee, which leads to China win the third game 11-5.
India are still in the lead. IND 2-1 CHN
Asian Games 2023 Day 7 Live Updates: Table-tennis women's doubles quarterfinals
Sutirtha Mukherjee and Ayhika Mukherjee continue their dominant show against China's Chen Weng and Yidi Weng in table-tennis women's doubles quarterfinals.
The Chinese pair had taken the first three points in the second game, following which it was complete demolition by Indian. They close the second game 11-5.
Asian Games 2023 Day 7 Live Updates: Badminton Men's team semifinal
The second game was a see-saw affair. The South Koreans started off with a lead before Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chiraj Shetty soared to a 8-5 lead, but then conceded four straight points to allow Minhyuk Kang and Seungjae Seo to level the score at 9-all. However, it was India who gained a two-point cushion at the mid-game interval. They maintained the lead through the second half of the game before the South Koreans threatened to steal it away by levelling the score at 21-all. India sneaked ahead but conceded the next point again. Kang and Seo then gamed set point opportunity twice before converting it on their second chance. The score in the semifinal tie is now level at 1-1.

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