Abhay Singh won a thrilling battle against Noor Zaman as India regained the Asian Games squash gold with an epic 2-1 win over Pakistan.
While Ghosal defeated Altamimi 11-4, 11-4, 11-6, Mangaonkar edged past Tsukue 11-6 11-2 11-6 in another pre-quarterfinal match.
Having won the gold way back in 2014, the team is targeting the top of the podium.
Indian challenge in the World Junior Squash Championships came to an end as Mahesh Mangaonkar and Anaka Alankamony lost their respective quarter-final matches to Egyptian rivals in the men's and women's competition at Doha.
India's national champion Saurav Ghosal defeated Adrian Waller of England in the opening round to set up a clash against second seed Gregory Gaultier of France in the PSA men's world squash championship in Cairo on Friday.
Indian squash player Joshna Chinappa rose to 10th while Deepika Pallikal remained static at 19th in the latest Professional Squash Association (PSA) rankings.
India were off to flying start in the World Men's Team Squash Championships as they scored an emphatic 3-0 win over Hungary.
Dipika Pallikal jumped five places to be 14th while her longtime India teammate Joshana Chinappa gained three spots to be 17th in the latest Professional Squash Association (PSA) rankings.
The Indian squash contingent began its Asian Games campaign with comfortable victories over Singapore and Pakistan.
Anaka Alankamony bagged India's lone gold medal at the Asian Junior Squash championship, while Dipika Pallikal and Mahesh Mangaonkar settled for silver after losing their respective finals in Busan on Sunday. Anaka, the top seeded Indian, beat Hong Kong's Ho Ka Po 9-6, 9-6, 9-5 in the girls under-15 category final to clinch her eighth international title.
Saurav Ghosal went down fighting in a gruelling five-match battle against World No 1 Diego Ellias in the pre-quarterfinals of the Squash World Championships in Chicago.
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Playing against high-ranked and experienced opponent in Lee Ka Yi, the 15-year-old Anahat tried her best.
The year 2023 will go down as extremely memorable for the Indian sports fraternity as players across various disciplines came together to script history at the Asian Games held in Hangzhou.
The Union Sports Minister Sarbananda Sonowal said that the Indian contingent was performing well in the ongoing Incheon Asian Games and hoped the athletes would win more medals for the country.
The Indian squash players wrapped up a historic performance in the Asian Games, clinching an unprecedented men's team gold after the women's side settled for its first ever silver in Incheon on Saturday.
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India's squash players continued their splendid showing in the ongoing Asian Games. The men's and women's teams were assured of at least two silver medals after winning their respective semi-final matches at the Yeorumul Courts, on Friday.
Chasing a third successive Asian Games medal, Indian boxer Vikas Krishan (75kg) made a strong start, out-punching Pakistan's Tanveer Ahmed in his pre-quarterfinal bout in Jakarta, on Monday.
India bagged two medals in Kurash, a form of wrestling indigenous to central Asia, with Pincky Balhara and Malaprabha Yallappa Jadhav winning silver and bronze respectively
Following is India's schedule at the Asian Games in Hangzhou on Sunday, October 1.
India finished seventh in the Men's World Team Squash Championship after posting a 2-0 win over Malaysia in the 7th-8th position match in Mulhouse, France.
The Indian squash contingent on Thursday assured its best ever showing at the Asian Games in Incheon by reaching the men's and women's team semi-finals, ensuring it returns home with medals in all four categories on offer.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Friday
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The eight players picked for the Asian Games have been training without a full-time coach and most of them don't train regularly with Kumari and Poncha, who has been a longtime national coach.
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Dipika Pallikal and Joshana Chinappa both the glamorous Chennai girls are let their racquets speak.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Thursday
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India assured themselves of at least another silver medal in the 17th Asian Games after the trio of Abhishek Verma, Rajat Chauhan and Sandeep Kumar entered the final of the compound men's team archery event in Incheon on Thursday.
India's squash players wrapped up a historic performance at the Asian Games, clinching an unprecedented men's team gold after the women's side settled for its first ever silver in Incheon on Saturday.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Sunday
Indian men ended their campaign in the pistol events on a winning note by shooting down a silver medal in the 25m centre fire event even as the women's team exited from the 50m three-position competition without success at the Asian Games in Incheon on Friday.
India's squash players wrapped up a historic performance at the Asian Games, clinching an unprecedented men's team gold after the women's side settled for its first ever silver in Incheon on Saturday.
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