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Men snooker teams-quarterfinals Aditya Mehta,Brijesh Damani

Cycling: Men sprint qualifications Omkar Bikram Singh,Prince Hylem

Women sprint qualifications Rameswori Devi,Rejani Kumari

Handball: Men preliminaries India vs Qatar

Judo: Men 90kg pre-quarterfinals Sahil Paghania

Women 63kg pre-quarterfinals Garima Choudhary

Kayak: Men singles semifinals VS Bhandari

Shooting: Men 10m air pistol qualifications Omkar Singh,Vijay Kumar,Gurpreet Singh

Women 10m air pistol qualifications Sonia Rai,Heena Sidhu,Anu Raj Singh

Swimming: Men 100m butterfly heats Rehan Poncha,Virdhawal Khade

Men 200m freestyle heats Rohit Havaldar

Men 50m breaststroke Sandeep Sejwal

Table Tennis: Womens team India vs Maldives

Men team India vs Vietnam

Triathlon: Men Gurudatta Gharat

Volleyball: Men Preliminaries India vs Kazakhstan

Weightlifting: Men 62kg Rustam Sarang,Omkar Otari

Wushu: Men 60kg Round of 16 Bimol Mayanglambam vs Maratib Ali Shah Pakistan

Men 70kg Round of 16 Sandeep Yadav vs Khanh Vuong Vietnam

Poncha fails to qualify

Indian swimmer Rehan Poncha failed to qualify for the mens butterfly finals after finishing fourth in the heats on the first day of the competition in the Asian Games in Guangzhou on Saturday. Poncha clocked 2:03.96 in the five-man field to finish ninth overall.

Dewan bows out

Indias Dewan Singh Huidrom finished 11th and second from last in the mens Changquan event of the Wushu competition. Dewan started off well but his performance dipped as the competition progressed,managing scores of 2.52 and 1.55.

Jains six in vain

India gave a tough fight to China in the first half but lost steam in the second session to lose 21-41 in the Group A preliminary round handball match. For India,Prasad Jain scored six goals followed by Sachin Chaudhary who netted four.

Weightlifters struggle

Indians expectedly finished in the bottom half of the results chart in the weightlifting events on the first day of the competitions in the Asian Games. Commonwealth Games silver medallist Soniya Chanu finished fifth in women8217;s 48kg category while CWG bronze medallist,Sandhya Rani finished sixth. In men8217;s 56kg,V Srinivasa Rao and Sukhen Dey finished eighth and 10th respectively with below par performances.

Eves down Malaysia

India8217;s womens hockey squad secured a 4-0 win over Malaysia in their group A encounter on the first day of the field hockey event at the Asian Games in Guangzhou. Thokchom Chanchan Devi 26th minute,Deepika Thakur 43rd,Rani Rampal 53rd and Surinder Kaur 67th scored for India.

Kayaker in the dock

The Sports Ministry today asked the IOA to withdraw Vikram Singh Bhandari from the Kayaking and Canoeing team of the Indian Asian Games contingent. In a letter to IOA Secretary General Randhir Singh,the ministry said,The name of Vikram Singh Bhandari has not been recommended by the selection committee.