India’s goal rush in hockeyIndia’s men’s and women’s hockey teams made emphatic starts to their respective campaigns, producing a combined 32 goals in their opening pool matches. The women began with a stunning 19-0 win over Uzbekistan, with Deepika Sehrawat scoring a remarkable eight goals.

The men followed it up with a 13-1 demolition of Indonesia. Dilpreet Singh led the scoring with four goals, while India dominated virtually throughout the contest.

The two victories provided early evidence of India’s ambitions in the hockey competitions and gave both teams a strong start to their Asian Games campaigns. Deepika Sehrawat (Image credit: Hockey India) Shuttlers make winning startIndia swept Kazakhstan 3-0 in the women’s team badminton event, with PV Sindhu, Unnati Hooda and Tanvi Sharma all winning their respective singles matches.

Sindhu opened with a straight-game victory before Hooda and Tanvi completed the sweep. India did not drop a game in the tie and moved into the quarterfinals, where they will face hosts Japan.

The result provided a strong start for a team featuring a blend of experience and youth, with Sindhu leading the charge alongside Hooda and Tanvi. Table tennis: women fight back, men suffer setbackIndia’s table tennis teams experienced contrasting fortunes on Day 1.

Both the women’s and men’s teams began their campaigns with identical 3-0 victories over Indonesia in their respective Group F openers. The women then produced one of the day’s notable comebacks, recovering from 1-2 down to beat Singapore 3-2.

Yashaswini Ghorpade won the deciding fifth match against Loy Ming, while Sreeja Akula had earlier levelled the contest at 2-2. The men, however, suffered a setback in their second group match, losing 0-3 to Iran.

Manush Shah, Manav Thakkar and Harmeet Desai all lost their respective matches. Both Indian teams will next face Pakistan.

India's Quimcy Joaquim Dsouza (AP Photo) Heartbreak for Quimcy in teqballIndia’s Quimcy D’Souza came agonisingly close to securing a historic medal in teqball but finished without a podium after losing two bronze-medal matches within five minutes of each other. The 24-year-old pushed Japan’s world No.

7 Yuina Sakamoto to the limit in the women’s singles bronze-medal match before losing 11-12, 11-12. Barely five minutes later, she returned to the arena alongside Mohamed Anas Beg for the mixed doubles bronze-medal match.

The Indian pair lost 0-2 to Vietnam’s Hoang Minh Tan Nguyen and Gia Ngih Trinh, going down 9-12, 6-12. 77 seconds.

98, while Japan’s Hidekazu Takehara and South Korea’s Juho Lee took silver and bronze respectively. Earlier, Benediction Beniston and Akash Mani failed to progress from the men’s 100m freestyle heats after finishing 12th and 23rd respectively.

683 points after competing in a 21-athlete field. India also suffered two Round of 16 exits in Sanda.

Aparna lost 0-2 to Iran’s Sog and Sinkaeichetan in the women’s 52kg category, while Vikrant Baliyan went down 0-2 to Iran’s Soheil Mousavi in the men’s 75kg category. There was further disappointment in MMA after Varun Sanyal was declared medically unfit to compete following an incident during a sauna session at his cruise-ship accommodation.

A medal-winning start with more opportunities aheadBy the end of Day 1, India had two confirmed medals — both silver — through Valarivan and the women’s 10m air rifle team. Suchika Tariyal had assured another medal in MMA, while the women’s cricket team had secured a place in the gold-medal match.

The day also delivered emphatic hockey victories, a clean sweep in women’s badminton and a comeback win in table tennis, although the men’s paddlers and some individual competitors endured setbacks. For India, therefore, the opening day brought a mixture of medals, near-misses and promising starts — with several opportunities still ahead as the Aichi-Nagoya Games gather pace.

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