Achanta Sharath Kamal's heroics notwithstanding, the Indian men's team started their campaign on a disastrous note, losing 1-3 to Japan in a Group 'A' league match of the table tennis competition in the Asian Games.
A summary of Indian athletes' showing atthe Olympic Games in Tokyo on Sunday.
It's a big day for India today as medals will be few good ties away from the athletes at the Commonwealth Games on Sunday.
Achanta Sharath Kamal became the India's first paddler to reach the semi-finals of an ITTF pro-tour event, at the Brazil Open.
India lost their last league match 1-3 to Bulgaria in the world table tennis championship
The Indian men's team lost 2-3 to Singapore in the World Table Tennis Championships.
India went down 1-3 to the Czech Republic in the women's division of the World Table Tennis Championships.
Indian men and women experienced contrasting fortunes at the World Team Table Tennis Championships as the former blanked Nigeria 3-0 but the eves went down 2-3 to Australia.
Mouma Das played a stellar role in a 3-2 victory over Canada in the play-off at the Commonwealth Games
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Tuesday.
The veteran defeated Prithviraj in the National Table Tennis Championship.
The sports tournament for MPs was conducted in New Delhi.
The Chennai paddler feels that it's about time that he changes colour of the medal to gold during the upcoming edition in Gold Coast.
Chetan Baboor, Mouma Das, Sharath Kamal and Montu Das scored their second wins to make the grade.
Also seen in action for India will be the shuttlers, boxers, the women's hockey team and the table tennis players among others.
A look at how India's athletes fared on Day 2 at the 2022 Commonwealth Games:
Their boys and girls' teams proved too good for Korea in the finals.
Their men's and women's teams won the gold medal in the National Games table tennis team event.
Chinese paddlers won the boys and girls' singles crowns and clinched the top spot in girls' doubles.
The Indian paddlers marched steadily in the preliminary rounds in the individual events of the SAF Games.
Both the girls teams booked their berth in the semi-finals of the World Junior Circuit Table Tennis championship.
India beat Slovenia in the league phase in both the men's and women's section in the World Team Table Tennis Championship.
The top women's table tennis player Zhang Yining broke her tailbone during a training session in Zhengding in Hebei province.
The team, comprising Madhurika Patkar, Sushmita Roy, Mousumi Paul and Sangeetha Seshadri beat the United States 3-2 to finish in the top 10.
Athletes and officials from eight disciplines of archery, badminton, table tennis, hockey, judo, gymnastics, swimming and weightlifting landed in Tokyo
They respectively claimed the sub-junior boys and girls' titles in the 66th Nat. Sub-Junior and Inter-state Table Tennis championships.
China chose a sports contest to announce the change of the name of Taiwan, a self-governed cash-rich island.
They won the boys and girls' titles respectively in the Jr Asian TT championship.
Indians impressed on the opening day of the World TT championships, with three of the five players in action winning their preliminary matches.
Niu Jianfeng and Guo Yue lost 4-2 to compatriots Wang Nan and Zhang Yining in the women's doubles table tennis semi-finals.
Commonwealth and national champion Sharath Kamal turned in a smart display to defeat Boudjadja Mohamed in the first round of the men's singles table tennis competition.
Mountaineer Bachendri Pal was, on Friday, conferred with the Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian award, while Gautam Gambhir, BajranG Punia and Sunil Chhetri, among others, received the Padma Shri.
The 20-year-old table tennis ace, who earned an Olympic berth from the Beijing qualifier, is fine-tuning her game at the SAI Centre in Kolkata.
The duo accounted for Achanta Sharath Kamal and Poulami Ghatak respectively to lift the men's and women's table tennis singles gold medals.
The team, comprising National champion Achanta Sharath Kamal, Soumyadeep Roy and Subhajit Saha, routed Pakistan 3-0 in the final.\n\n
He beat Portugal's Tiago Apolonia at the Chile Open table tennis tournament.
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