The headline variety of day seven is 38 – that is what India’s medal tally on the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Video games stands at proper now. However ESPN India picks out eight distinctive numbers that really helped outline the day that India had on Saturday, September 30.
4, and 4
In recreation 4, staring defeat within the face, Abhay Singh pulled off 4 straight factors to take it from 8-10 to 12-10. 4 factors to go from a silver positioned end to a closing deciding set… the place he did it once more, going from 7-9 to 11-9. Unimaginable. Filmi, even.
(177 + 112) – (2+4) = 283
Ayhika Mukherjee is world no. 177, Sutirtha 112. Chen Meng is world no.2, Wang Yidi world no. 4. However the Indians performed ‘bindaas’ and that is a win that has the potential to ship the TT world right into a spin.
China in Desk Tennis on the #AsianGames:
◾️ Dominated since 1974
◾️ Most gold medals ever. Greater than 3 times the quantity than second-place Japan
◾️ 1-2 within the ladies’s doubles occasion in 2010 and 2014 (no ladies’s doubles in 2018)
◾️ Gained gold in EVERY occasion final versionAnd… pic.twitter.com/7X4UtVny6e
– ESPN India (@ESPNIndia) September 30, 2023
2
Preeti Pawar surprised a former Worlds medallist Zhaina Shekerbekova of Kazhakstan to enter the semis of the 54kg boxing; and in doing that grew to become simply the second Indian boxer to guide a quota on the Paris Olympics. After a sure Nikhat Zareen, in fact.
9
9 kilograms is the bounce that Mirabai Chanu needed to make to win bronze. And so, regardless of not being anyplace close to 100%, she upped her weight within the clear & jerk from 108kg to 117kg. And that is how she ended up on the ground, in tears. A fourth-place end to go along with her ninth place end in 2014 (she did not take part in 2018 as a result of damage). A trophy cupboard that has Olympic, World Championship and Commonwealth Video games medals nonetheless has an empty area for one from the Asian Video games.
6
Rohan Bopanna and Rutuja Bhosale gained gold within the final occasion of the tennis – the blended doubles. That was sufficient for India to proceed a reasonably spectacular streak: India have now gained a gold in each Asian Video games stretching again to 2002. That is six Video games, six golds.
Two tennis medals for India �� ��
India now have 34: 10 gold, 7 silver and 17 bronze medals in tennis on the #AsianGames pic.twitter.com/AL9MrXRgdV
– ESPN India (@ESPNIndia) September 30, 2023
10.7
With the blended crew 10m air pistol closing tied 14-14, Bowen Zhang pulled out essentially the most sensational closing shot to ensure Gold went to China… he hit a ten.7 to take their complete to 21.0, uncatchable for the Indians Sarabjot Singh and Divya TS who hit a 20.4. 16-14, China gained. That is as clutch because it comes.
40
Karthik Kumar decreased his earlier private finest by a shocking 40 seconds [28:15.38] to take silver, whereas Gulveer Singh ran 37 seconds [28:17.21] quicker than his finest to take dwelling the bronze in an eventful males’s 10,000m race.
180
India and Pakistan have performed 180 video games of males’s hockey and Saturday was the primary time when the Indians scored 10 targets in opposition to their arch-rivals.