India at Asian Games 2022, as it happened: Paddlers open campaign with wins; Balraj Panwar in final

That victory from Sathiyan Gnanasekaran draws curtains on all the Friday action from the Indian contingent in Hangzhou. It was a day of highs for India as the country’s men’s table tennis team registered consecutive victories, whereas the women’s team too came out on top against Singapore in a tightly fought contest.

Besides, rower Balraj Panwar made it to the medal final of the men’s singles sculls while the sailors continued from where they had left off on Thursday.

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Asian Games, Table Tennis: Indian men’s team defeat Singapore 3-1

Sathiyan Gnanasekaran registers a 11-7, 10-12, 11-9, 11-6 win over Pang Yew En Koen in the fourth match to help India to their second consecutive victory of the day.

Asian Games, Table Tennis: Achanta Sharath Kamal goes down 11-13, 8-11, 12-10, 5-11 against Chew Zhe Yu Charence as Singapore fight back in the men’s tie.

Sathiyan Gnanasekaran will play his second match of the tie now.

Asian Games, Modern Pentathlon: Mayank Chaphekar is placed 13th with 1005 points at the end of day’s competition.

Asian Games, Table Tennis: Indian women’s team defeat Singapore 3-2 in their opening match of the campaign.

Ayhika Mukherjee, who lost her first match of the day, came up with...

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