Asian Games 2026 LIVE: Kabaddi delivers twin gold, Tajinderpal wins silver – Highlights
Squash, Women's Singles Semi-finals: Anahat Singh stuns world no.6; Enters final
An amazing comeback from the 18-year-old, who stuns the home favourite Satomi Watanabe of Japan in five games: 9-11, 11-13, 12-10, 11-6, 11-3.
Anahat was two games down, and even in the third game she had to save three match points before forcing a tiebreak and then winning the third game.
After this survival, she just outshone Watanabe with some beautiful shots and won the next two games with big margins.
This win not only kept her gold medal chances alive but also her chances of winning an LA Olympics 2028 Quota spot, which will be awarded to the winner.
Squash, Women's Singles Semi-finals: Anahat levels the score at 2-2 with a beautiful fourth game
Anahat finds her touch and is playing some top-quality deceptive shots to rattle the world No. 6, who is looking a bit frustrated.
The young Indian dominated the last part of the fourth game to register a comfortable 11-5 win and force a decider.
Squash, Women's Singles Semi-finals: Anahat pulls back one game saving two match points
Anahat continued to showcase a strong fight against the much higher-ranked opponent and pulled back in the third game.
She was on the verge of exit, trailing 8-10, but then she found a late comeback and won the next four points on a trot to take the game, keeping her hopes alive.
Squash, Women's Singles Semi-finals: Anahat Singh 0-2 Satomi Watanabe
The India No. 1, Anahat Singh is trying hard but isn't able to find that sharp kill against the world No.6 Satomi Watanabe.
Anahat is trying to take the fight to Satomi, but her deceptive play is just proving to be good for Anahat, as she lost the first two games, 9-11, 11-13.
She will need to win the next game anyhow to keep her campaign alive and otherwise will just settle for the bronze.
Boxing, Men's 90Kg: Kapil Pokhariya advances to quarterfinals with a 5-0 win
Kapil starts his Asian Games campaign with a unanimous 5-0 win over Iran's Sam Estaki in the men's 90kg round of 16 bout
He dominated the bout throughout with his combination of punches while the Iranian couldn't find clean hits and hence was not awarded much by the judges.
Kabaddi, Women's Team Final: India defends the title
GOLD for India!
Indian women's kabaddi team beat Iran in a hard-fought final 37-34. There's cheers and celebration. But India played a tremendous game.
The Indian women’s team remain unbeaten and successfully defend the gold medal.
India had also defeated Iran in the 2023 Asian Games final to win the title.
Kabaddi, Women's Team Final: Last TWO minutes.
Iran now a three player team on the mat. Pooja gets the touch. Iran down to two now.
But Iran responds with a point and a bonus.
Score: India 35-30 Iran
Badminton, Men's Singles: An easy win for Ayush Shetty to begin his individual event
It took just 20 minutes for Ayush to pack off his Kazakhstan opponent, Makhsut Tajibullaev in straight games, 21-7, 21-7.
He will now move to the Round of 16, where he will be up against Chou Tien Chen of Chinese Taipei later in the day.
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