Asian Games 2023 Live Updates, Day 3: India beat Singapore 16-1 in men’s hockey; Bhavani Devi reaches quarter-finals

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates, Day 3: India’s Ankita Raina has won the first set (6-1) against Hong Kong’s Adithya Patali Karunaratne in her Round 3 match in Women’s Singles Tennis

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates, Day 3: QUARTERFINALS IT IS!

Bhavani Devi beats Thailand’s Tonkhaw Phokaew 15-9 in her pre-quarters bout. Make that six wins in a row for the number one seed at the Games

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates, Day 3: Joshana Chinappa beats Noor Ul Huda Sadiq in straight games to give a 2-0 lead to India in Women’s Squash Team Event. They are all set to qualify to the next round

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates, Day 3: Another resounding win for India as they score exactly 16 again, but concede 1 against Singapore to register second-successive win in Pool A. With a mammoth goal difference of 31, India are at the top spot

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates, Day 3: Tulika Maan wins by Ippon in just 15 seconds against Qing Lam Lie of Macao, China in the Women’s +78kg event! What a start.

She moves to quarterfinals

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates, Day 3: Bhavani Devi is up against Tonkhau Phokaew of Thailand in the round-of-16. The Thai fencer lost three bouts in her pool phase, while Bhavani is still undefeated

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates, Day 3: Singapore off the mark!

A first goal for Singapore in the tournament and the celebrations show as much. They finally breach the Indian defence!

IND 14-1 SGP

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates, Day 3: India’s Shivangi Sarma fails to qualify for the finals in Women’s 100m Freestyle event. She finishes 17th out of 29 athletes, clocking 58.31s in her Heat. Only the top 8 qualify for final.

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates, Day 3: 14-0!

It’s almost cruel at this point. India are running through the Singaporean defence, with Abhishek scoring the latest goal for the side.

India finish seventh (last) in the Women’s Team Spring qualifying with timing of 52.898s. They will face the second-placed team — Korea — in the first round.

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates, Day 3: India’s Anahat Singh beats Sadia Gul of Pakistan in straight games (3-0) to give India a 1-0 lead in Round 1 of Women’s Squash Team Event. Joshana Chinappa will play the next match against Noor Sadiq and Tanvi Khanna will play the last match (if needed)

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates, Day 3: Women’s Skeet event begins. Currently in action from India are Darshna Rathore and Ganemat Sekhon. Parinaaz Dhaliwal will be in the second set of shooters.

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates, Day 3: India’s goals in double figures!

Captain Harmanpreet scores his third goal from penalty corner to complete his hat-trick. Quite astonishing to think that the first quarter ended with India leading just 1-0; we are yet to complete the third quarter!

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates, Day 3: Anant Jeet Singh Naruka shoots a maximum score of 25/25! But Angad shoot 22/25. Gurjoat had also scored 22/25 earlier. Anant is joint-first in individual event; top-6 qualify for the final.

In the team event, India are currently placed 7th with total of 69 points.

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates, Day 3: In the women’s team squash event, the Indian trio of Anahat Singh, Joshna Chinappa, and Tanvi Khanna are set to face Pakistan’s Gul Sadia, Noor Sadiq, and Noor Ijaz in the opening match. The match will commence with the encounter between Anahat and Gul.

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates, Day 3: Bhavani Devi cruises to round of 16 in women’s sabre with wins in all of her five Pool matches! Her opponent is yet to be decided.

Note that the whole event will be played out today.

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates, Day 3: India’s Esha Singh in top position with 292 pts while Rhythm Sangwan is 8th (290 pts) at the end of their Precision round of the Women’s 25m Pistol event. One more set of shooters (including Manu Bhaker) yet to start with their rounds.

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates, Day 3: Bhavani Devi sweeps through her Pool 4 opponents! She registers a 5-1 win over Uzbekistan’s Zaynab Dayibekova and another 5-1 win against Mst Roksana Khatun of Bangladesh to win all of her five matches in the pool.

Absolute domination by the India star!

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates, Day 3: Gurjot Siingh Khangura finishes with 22/25 in the first round of men’s skeet. Six shooters score full 25 in the opening round.

Now in action are India’s remaining two shooters in the event, Angad Vir Singh Bajwa and Anant Jeet Singh Naruka

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates, Day 3: Goal no.6 for India and it’s Amit Rohidas who extends the side’s lead. This is becoming too easy for the men in blue. India receive another penalty corner as I write this, but Singapore manage to clear the ball on this occasion.

End of 2nd quarter. India 6-0 Singapore

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates, Day 3: India’s Esha Singh at No.2, Rhythm Sangwan at No.12 after series 2 in the Precision round of women’s 25m Pistol event (qualification). Manu Bhaker is yet to begin. The top 8 shooters will qualify for the final

India in top position in the team event of the same event. But this is just the beginning.

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates, Day 3: Goal riot! India are now 5-0 up against Singapore!

After a dominant start that saw India missing penalty corners and fair few goalscoring opportunities, the side has turned up brilliantly in the second quarter. Singapore all over the place and it looks like another big loss on the cards for the side

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates, Day 3: Ramita and Divyansh Singh Panwar will compete for bronze medal at the 10m air rifle mixed event!

They just about managed to finish sixth with a final score of 628.2.

Only 1st and 2nd will compete for the gold medal in this event – the two teams being from China and Uzbekistan.

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates, Day 3: India’s Divyansh Singh Panwar (303.9) and Ramita (293.1) are currently sixth in the 10m air rifle mixed team qualification. An intense final round is ongoing! TOP-6 will make the final.

China have comfortably sailed through to the final with men’s world record holder Sheng Lihao scoring an incredible 319.3 in his three-round series.

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates, Day 3: Bhavani Devi is off to a terrific start! She has won her first three matches against Juliet Jie Min Heng of Singapore (5-2), Alhsna Abdulrahman Alhammad of Saudi Arabia (5-1), and Karina Dospay (5-3) of Kazakhstan.

India open their account against Singapore! Mandeep Singh gets India off the mark with three minutes left in the first quarter. India have been a far more dominant side so far and there should be no surprises.

IND 1-0 SGP

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates, Day 3: 8 shooters will qualify for the final of 25m Women’s pistol event, while 6 will take part in the men’s and women’s skeet final.

Men’s skeet and women’s pistol events have begun so far

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates, Day 3: Women’s 25m pistol qualification event begins. Rhythm Sangwan and Esha Singh have so far begun their shooting series in precision. Manu Bhaker will also be in action at the event

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates: Gurjoat Siingh Khangura begins India’s charge in men’s skeet, scoring two points out of maximum 3 in the first round. Two more Indians yet to begin their series in the qualification event

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates, Day 3: India vs Singapore begins in Hangzhou.

Reminder that India won their first match 16-0 against Uzbekistan, while Singapore faced a 0-11 loss to Pakistan in their opening encounter

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates, Day 3: All three of India’s events in shooting are about to begin on Day 3 in Hangzhou

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates, Day 3: India announce their playing XI for men’s hockey pool game against Singapore. Captain Harmanpreet Singh makes a return.

Playing XI: Sreejesh, Jarmanpreet, Sumit, Varun Kumar, Harmanpreet (c), Manpreet, Hardik, Nilakanta, Abhishek, Gurjant, Mandeep

India secured six medals on Day 2, with Indian trio consisting of Rudrankksh Balasaheb Patil, Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, and Divyansh Singh Panwar securing India’s inaugural gold at Hangzhou 2023 in the 10m air rifle men’s team event. A second gold came in women’s cricket as India defeated Sri Lanka by 19 runs in the final

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates, Day 3: Here’s the list of Indian shooters in action today

Anant Jeet Singh Naruka, Gurjoat Singh Khangura, and Angar Vir Singh Bajwa – Men’s Skeet-75 individual and team

Ganemat Sekhon, Darshna Rathore and Parinaaz Dhaliwal – Women’s Skeet-75 individual and team

Rhythm Sangwan, Esha Singh, and Manu Bhaker – Women’s 25m pistol individual and team

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates, Day 3: India’s Sudipti Hajela scores a total average score of 66.705 in her dressage series. Divyakriti Singh will be up next, followed by Hriday Vipul Chheda and Anush Agarwalla.

A reminder that this is a medal event

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates, Day 3: In the sport of equestrian, India is represented by Hriday Chheda, Anush Agarwalla, Sudipti Hajela, and Divyakriit Singh, who are currently participating in the Dressage – Team Final and Individual Qualification events.

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates, Day 3: Manu Bhaker is yet to win an Asian Games medal and she would aim at opening her account in this edition, as her event begins today. Bhaker will be one of the three Indian shooters in the 25m women’s air pistol event. She will also be part of the team event on Day 3

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates, Day 3: The first Indian to win a medal (bronze) at the Asian Fencing Championships, Bhavani Devi begins her campaign at the Games today as she faces Singapore’s Juliet Jie Min Heng in Pool 4. She will play 4 matches today

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates, Day 3: With 11 medals so far, India are currently at sixth spot in the medal tally. China are comfortably at the top with 39 gold medals, and 69 overall.

Standings (G- Gold, S- Silver, B- Bronze)

1- China – 39G, 21S, 9B

2: Republic of Korea – 10G, 10S, 13B

3: Japan – 5G, 14S, 12B

4: Uzbekistan – 4G, 4S, 6B

5: Hong Kong, China – 3G, 4S, 7B

6: INDIA – 2G, 3S, 6B

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates, Day 3: Ramita, who had earlier won a silver (women’s team) and a bronze (individual) medal in the women’s 10m air rifle event, can add a third medal to her tally today when she, alongside Divyansh Singh Panwar, takes part in the 10m air rifle mixed team event. Qualification starts 6:30 AM

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates, Day 3: India will take part in their second game at men’s hockey as the side meets Singapore in Hangzhou. A Harmanpreet Singh-less side had registered a crushing 16-0 victory in the opening game against Uzbekistan, and faces another less-favoured opposition Singapore that lost 0-11 to Pakistan in its opener.

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates, Day 3: Hello and welcome to the live coverage of Day 3 at the Asian Games 2023! Some massive names in action as India take on Singapore in men’s hockey, while Manu Bhaker will take part in 25m air pistol event among some big medal contenders in shooting. India’s star fencer Bhavani Devi will also be in action later in fencing.