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Badminton: Women’s Doubles Round of 32 – Treesa Jolly/Gayatri Gopichand vs Hong Kong

Up next: Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand begin their Asian Games campaign in the women’s doubles Round of 32 against Hong Kong. 

Table Tennis: Harmeet-Sathiyan bow out in R16; Ends India's men's doubles campaign

The Indian pair Harmeet Desai and Sathiyan Gnanasekaran lost in the round of 16 to Japanese pair Sora Matsushima and Shunshuke Togami.

The Indian pair faced a straight-game defeat, 5- 11, 9- 11, 9- 11, to the home favourites, bringing an end to India's men's doubles run in Table Tennis.

Weightlifting: Women’s 61kg Final – Devi Seram Nirupama

Snatch: Devi Seram Nirupama finishes the snatch section with a 93kg best lift. She successfully cleared 90kg on her first attempt and 93kg on her second, before missing 95kg on her third attempt. She now moves into the clean & jerk, where her opening lift is 120kg.

Weightlifting: Women’s 61kg Final – Devi Seram Nirupama

Snatch: Devi Seram Nirupama successfully clears 90kg on her first attempt in the women’s 61kg final. She is now set to continue with her remaining snatch attempts.

Badminton, Men's Doubles R32: Defending Champions are out in first round

A shocking result for the Indian doubles pair of Satwik-Chirag in the opening round of the men's doubles. The Indian pair comfortably won the opening game 21-12 but looed out of form and couldnt handle the pace of the match in the next two as the Thai pair caused a major upset. 

Satwik/Chirag 21-12, 19-21, 21-14 Sukphun/Pakkapon

Badminton, Men's Doubles R32: Satwik/Chirag in trouble

Satwik-Chirag in BIG BIG trouble. Thye are starring at a first round exit. The Thai pair have played exceptionally well in the third game too. Just three points away from an upset.

Score (so far): Satwik/Chirag 21-12, 19-21, 14-18 Sukphun/Pakkapon

Table Tennis: Indian women's doubles campaign ends as both pairs lost in R16

Both Indian women's doubles pairs were paired up against the Chinese paddlers but faced straight-game defeats in the last 16.

Sreeja Akula and Syndrela Das lost 6-11, 7-11, 7-11 to Man Kuai and Wang Manyu, while Yashaswini Ghorpade and Diya Chitale lost 7-11, 5-11, 8-11 to Chen Yi and Fan Shuhan.

Badminton, Men's Doubles R32: Satwik/Chirag concede second game

A hit on the nets from Satwik hands the Thai players their game point. The Indians save it one but an attacking game from the Thai players give them success in the second game. Both pair now have a game each.

Let's look at the progress in game 2. 

Score: Satwik/Chirag 21-12, 19-21 Sukphun/Pakkapon

Badminton, Men's Doubles R32: Dominant play bt Thai pair

The Indian pair continue to trail as the Thai pair have extended their lead to 17-14 in the second game. 

Satwik-Chirag bounce back, they cover two point defecit to equalise at 11-all.