Asian Games 2023 HIGHLIGHTS, September 22 updates: India men, women beat Singapore in TT; volleyball, rowing, sailing, modern pentathlon results

That will be all from us for today, as far as the coverage from Hangzhou 2022 is concerned. Do join us tomorrow for yet another exciting day of competitions with the table tennis and sailing squads in action once again. Even the opening ceremony is scheduled to take place tomorrow.

Sathiyan hammers in the final nail, winning the fourth game 11-6. Team India 3-1 Singapore.

The Indian paddler takes merely 8 minutes to crush his Singapore opponent 11-9.

Yew En Koen Pang pulls level in Match 4 (1-1). Pang pegs Sathiyan back with a deuce and eventually takes the second game 12-10.

• Men’s Kite - IKA Formula Kite, Race 8 - Chitresh Tatha (5th)
  

• Men’s Dinghy - ILCA7, Race 4 - Vishnu Saravanan (7th)

• Mixed Multihull - Nacra 17, Race 6 - Siddeshwar Indar Doiphode-Ramya Saravanan (4th)

• Women’s Windsurfer RS:X - RS:X, Race 6 - Ishwariya Ganesh (3rd)

• Women’s Single Dinghy - ILCA6, Race 4 - Nethra Kumanan (7th)

• Men’s Windsurfer RS:X - RS:X, Race 6 - Eabad Ali (2nd)

• Men’s Windsurfing - iQFoil, Race 8 - Jerome Kumar Savarimuthu (7th)

• Women’s Skiff - 49erFX, Race 6 - Harshita Tomar-Shital Verma (3rd)

• Mixed Dinghy - 470, Race 4 - Preethi Kongara-Sudhanshu Shekhar (6th)

• Girl’s Dinghy - ILCA4, Race 4 - Neha Thakur (1st)

• Men’s Skiff - 49er, Race 6 - Varun Thakkar-Ganapathy Chengappa (3rd)

• Boy’s Dinghy - ILCA4, Race 4 - Adhvait Menon (DSQ)

Achanta Sharath Kamal loses the third game 5-11 and concedes the match 1-3.

Singapore pulls closer in the overall tie but India still leads 2-1.

Sharath Kamal survives! He takes the third game 12-10. He was two match-points down but hung on and prolonged the match.

Sharath Kamal loses the second game as well. Chew wins 11-9 to take a 2-0 lead.

Achanta Sharath Kamal loses the first game 11-13. He was down 8-10 and did well to get to deuce. However, he could not win the game.

INDIA WINS! Ayhika wins the fourth game 11-5 to secure India’s win.

Final Score: 11-7, 11-8, 9-11, 11-5

India’s third match in the contest will be played by Achanta Sharath Kamal. He faces Zhu Yu Clarance Chew.

Ayhika Mukherjee cannot close out the game in straight games. She loses the third game 9-11.

Harmeet Desai wins the final game of the match 11-5. He takes the contest three games to two.

Final Score: 12-10, 11-8, 6-11, 6-11, 11-5

India leads Singapore 2-0.

Ayhika Mukherjee doubles her lead in the final match of the India vs Singapore women’s match. She won the second game 11-8.

Harmeet Desai has squandered his 2-0 lead. Pang wins the fourth game 11-6 to force the match into a fifth set.

The Indian takes the first game 11-7. A positive start for India. Two more games and India wins the match and tie.

The final match of the India-Singapore tie will be contested between Ayhika Mukherjee and Jungyi Zhou.

Harmeet loses the first game 7-11 against Pang.

Harmeet wins the second game 11-8! He leads the contest 2-0.

The Indian goes down 10-12 in the fifth game and loses the match.

Final Score: 3-11, 11-3, 10-12, 12-10, 10-12

Singapore has tied the overall match-up 2-2.

Harmeet Desai takes the first game against Yew En Koen Pang 12-10. The Indian trailed 6-10at one point but the turned the tie around.

Manika Batra claims the fourth game 12-10 to stretch the contest to a decider.

If Batra beats Jian Zeng, India wins the tie 3-1.

From being 1-7 down to winning 11-9, Sathiyan shows Quek Yong what he is made of!

After conceding a 11-3 loss in the first game, Manika pulled things level with a 11-3 of her own. However, Zeng pegged back Manika with a deuce to ultimately claim the third game 12-10.

Meanwhile, on the men’s side of things, Sathiyan has taken a 2-1 lead in the match against Singapore’s Izaac Quek Yong (5-11, 12-10, 11-6)

Manika, ranked 36th, loses the first game 11-3 against World No. 70 Zeng.

Sreeja claims the fifth game with a 11-7 scoreline. Manika to return and face Zeng, the winner of the first tie.

Sreeja isn’t one to let go. She pulls level (2-2) with an 11-9 game.

Xin Ru wins the race to 11 points on this occasions, leaving Sreeja to rue for missed opportunities at 8.

Xin Ru starts off from where she left the first game, but Sreeja bounces back in style to clinch the second, 11-9 in 10 minutes.

Pegged back to a deuce twice, Xin Ru finally clinches the first game by a 14-12 scoreline.

10-all in the first game. Xin Ru takes the advantage after the next rally.

Manika makes short work of her opponent in the fourth game - 11-3 - to win the contest 3-1. Sreeja Akula takes on Singapore’s Wong Xin Ru next.

Manika Batra takes only eight minutes to wrap up the third game against Singapore’s Zhou Jingyi 11-7. Jingyi had won the previous game 11-9 and the Indian paddler had clinched the first game with an 11-9 scoreline.

After swimming and fencing, Mayank Vaibhav Chaphekar finds himself in the 11th spot among the field of 14. He scored 295 points in swimming, and notched 168 in fencing.

Jian Zeng may have lost the first game 7-11, but later she posted three successive wins in a row to beat India’s Ayhika Mukherjee 7-11, 11-2, 11-7, 12-10 in a 37-minute clash.

The Indian volleyball team continues its ascent. The third set, also 29-minutes-long, concludes with a 25-21 scoreline.

No, not yet... Spoke to soon, didn’t I?

The nerves have started to show on the Taipei players.

India’s Balraj Panwar finishes third in men’s single sculls semi 2 to make Final A.

INDIA COMES HOME WITH THE SECOND-SET HONOURS AS WELL! Takes them 29 minutes and it has been extremely hard-fought. 2-0; 1 to go.

The two teams quickly take their respective timeouts, following which India loses another point. The cushion is down to a solitary point now. IND 19-18 TPE.

Tai Ju-Chien registers a crucial block point. Chinese Taipei is breathing down the Indians’ necks now. And Hari Prasad’s subsequent dig error only worsens matters. 17-all.

At this point, it is incredibly difficult to predict a clear winner here. The difference stands at three points, and TPE won’t let go of even one inch.

Chinese Taipei, as is evident, won’t let the match slip without a contest. The scoreline reads 10-8 in favour of the Indians now.

However, there will be absolutely no breathing space. The Indians would know better, provided how things transpired in the previous set.

Another block from Ashwal and India has the first three points of the second set in the bag!

Ashwal Rai’s block point seals the first set in favour of the high-flying Indians. What an absolute cracker of a tournament they’ve been having! PS: TPE is ranked 43 in the world, India’s ranking is a humble 73.

A team error from Chinese Taipei grants Muthusamy Appavu a service point. The set swings 22-21 in India’s favour.

Lin Yi-Huei, Chen Chien-Chen and Chang Yu-Sheng’s successive errors see India pull level.

India calls for a timeout after Hari Prasad Bevinakuppe Suresha commits an error while trying to receive Wu Tsung-Hsuan’s serve. The scoreline reads 19-15 in favour of Chinese Taipei.

The first set between India and Chinese Taipei has been closely contested thus far. India trails 12-14 as Erin Varghese concedes a service error.

Nethra Kumanan won’t be happy with how she fared in the third race of women’s Single Dinghy - ILCA6. Having led the pack for a while, she kept falling behind to eventually come back with six race points.

Eabad Ali loses a place in men’s Windsurfer RS:X - RS:X Race 4 to register a third-place finish.

In Mixed Multihull - Nacra 17, Siddeshwar Indar Doiphode and Ramya Saravanan come fourth in Race 4.

Although Harmeet was offered the first two games (11-1, 11-1) on a platter, Magd Ahmed Ali Aldhubhani makes the Indian’s life a bit difficult in the potential decider.

However, the last game, six-minutes-long, eventually goes 11-7 in favour of Harmeet.

Achanta Sharath Kamal takes 17 minutes to quash the challenge from Yemen’s Ebrahim Abdulhakim Mohamm Gubran. The scoreline reads: 11-3, 11-4, 11-6.

Sathiyan pulls off a comfortable 11-3, 11-2, 11-6 win over Yemen’s Ali Omar Ahmed.

India’s Sathiyan Gnanasekaran will go up against Ali Omar Ahmed of Yemen on Table 7 shortly.

In women’s Windsurfer RS:X - RS:X, Ishwariya Ganesh finishes fourth in Race 4. Hong Kong China’s Leung Po Chak retires after crossing Mark 4 at seventh place.

Vishnu Saravanan, participating in men’s Dinghy - ILCA7, tops the leaderboard in the third race with a timing of 39:32.

Chitresh Tatha, having tagged Mark 1 in the sixth place, improves his ranking by one place in Race 5 of Men’s Kite - IKA Formula Kite.

Chitresh Tatha will get the action rolling for Team India in about 30 minutes from now in the IKA Formula Kite Race.

Here are all the events in which Indians will be participating on September 22 in Hangzhou:

MODERN PENTATHLON

8:05 AM IST ONWARDS - Bonus Round - Mayank Vaibhav Chaphekar (1:30 PM IST)

SAILING

8:30 AM IST ONWARDS - Men’s Windsurfing - iQFoil-Jerome Kumar Savarimuthu

Men’s Skiff - 49er-KC Ganapathy-Varun Thakkar

Mixed Dinghy - 470-Sudhanshu Shekhar-Preeti Kongara

Boy’s Dinghy - ILCA4- Adhvait Menon

Girl’s Dinghy - ILCA4- Neha Thakur

Men’s Kite - IKA Formula Kite - Chitresh Tatha

Women’s Skiff - 49erFX- Harshita Tomar-Shital Verma

Women’s Single Dinghy - ILCA6-Nethra Kumanan

Mixed Multihull - Nacra 17-Siddeshwar Indar Doiphode-Ramya Saravanan

Men’s Windsurfer - RS - X-Eabad Ali

Men’s Dinghy - ILCA7 -Vishnu Saravanan

Women’s Windsurfer - RS: X-Ishwariya Ganesh

ROWING

1 PM IST - Semifinals, Men’s single scull (M1X) -Balraj Panwar

TABLE TENNIS

9:30 AM IST - Men’s Preliminary - Group F - India vs Yemen

1:30 PM IST - Women’s Preliminary - Group F - India vs Singapore

3:30 PM IST - Men’s Preliminary - Group F - India vs Singapore

VOLLEYBALL

12 PM IST - India vs Chinese Taipei

The Asian Games events will be streaming live on SonyLIV. It will also be broadcast live on the Sony Sports Network.