Asian Games 2026 stay, September 20: Know India scores, updates and outcomes from Day 1

Table tennis: Sreeja Akula offers India 1-0 lead in ladies’s group occasion

Sreeja Akula gained the opening contest 3-1 in opposition to Indonesia, taking the primary level for India of their ladies’s group Group F match.

She beat Ni Maharani 11-3, 8-11, 11-4, 11-4. Diya Chitale is the following Indian paddler in motion in opposition to Almaira Nebuchadnezzar.

Teqball: Quimcy Dsouza misses out on ladies’s singles bronze

India’s Quimcy Dsouza misplaced 2-0 to Japan’s Yuina Sakamoto within the ladies’s singles bronze medal match, narrowly dropping each units 12-11.

However, she can have one other alternative to win a medal within the blended doubles bronze medal match, the place she is going to group up with Mohamed Anas Imran Beg and face Vietnam’s Hoang Minh Tan Nguyen and Gia Nghi Trinh later at this time.

Wushu: Mayanglambam Suraj Singh finishes eleventh in changquan remaining

India’s Mayanglambam Suraj Singh completed eleventh within the males’s changquan remaining with a rating of 9.683.

Making his third Asian Games look, Suraj Singh had completed tenth at Jakarta 2018 and fifth at Hangzhou 2023.

Cricket: India ladies’s started title defence in fashion

The Indian ladies’s group additionally started its title defence on Friday with an eight-wicket win over hosts Japan within the quarter-finals. 

Shree Charani took 4/10 as Japan have been bowled out for 57 earlier than Shafali Verma struck an unbeaten 40 off 15 balls to assist India full the chase in 5 overs and arrange a conflict in opposition to Bangladesh within the semi-finals later at this time.

Soft tennis: Indian males’s group’s quarter-final exit

Friday additionally noticed India’s males’s smooth tennis group document 3-0 wins over Laos and Mongolia, sandwiching a 3-0 defeat to Chinese Taipei, earlier than dropping 2-0 to Indonesia within the quarter-finals.

Teqball: Quimcy Dsouza in rivalry for double bronze

Although the Asian Games formally started with Saturday’s opening ceremony, India’s marketing campaign bought underway on Thursday in teqball, the place Declan Marshall Gonsalves and Mohamed Anas Imran Beg have been eradicated within the males’s doubles group stage.

On Friday, Quimcy Dsouza superior to the ladies’s singles semi-finals, the place she misplaced to Indonesia’s Sumaya. Quimcy will tackle Japan’s Yuina Sakamoto, who she already surprised within the group stage, on Sunday.

Quimcy Dsouza and Mohamed Anas Imran Beg are additionally in rivalry for a podium end within the blended doubles after qualifying for the bronze medal match by the repechage.

India at Asian Games 2026 – welcome to the stay weblog!

Good morning and welcome to Olympics.com’s stay protection of India’s marketing campaign on the Asian Games 2026 in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan.

We will maintain you up to date with each rating, replace, end result, milestone, medals and main moments involving the Indian contingent all through the day, throughout the following two weeks.

Indian athletes will compete throughout 10 sports activities on Sunday, with the nation’s first medal alternatives of the Asian Games 2026 on provide in wushu, teqball and capturing.

Olympian Elavenil Valarivan, Sonam Uttam Maskar and Vidarsa Ok Vinod will compete within the ladies’s 10m air rifle particular person qualification, adopted by the group remaining. The particular person remaining can also be scheduled later within the day.

The Indian ladies’s cricket group will even be in motion at this time as they appear to e-book a berth within the semi-finals of their bid to finish a profitable title defence. 

Indian athletes will even start their badminton and hockey campaigns underway on Sunday. 

Two-time Olympics medallist PV Sindhu is part of the badminton squad, whereas the Indian males’s hockey group are the defending Asian Games champions. Get India’s full Day 1 schedule right here.