The reigning world champion duo of Chen Meng and Wang Yidi gasped in surprise seeing the backhand return of Ayhika Mukherjee, who, in part, engineered India's biggest triumph of the Asian Games thus far.
Veteran Acantha Sharat Kamal raised his game just in time to help the Indian men's team escape unscathed against Kazakhstan at the Asian Games.
"I'm sure BCCI will sort this out," said Ganguly
Star Indian paddler Manika Batra crashed out of the women's singles in the World Table Tennis Championships Finals after a first round defeat, while Sathiyan Gnanasekaran advanced to the second round in the men's singles, in Houston, on Wednesday.
Following is India's schedule at the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday, July 24.
D Vishwa was part of the Tamizhaga Table Tennis Association (TTTA) State men's team who were on their way to take part in the 83rd Senior National and Inter-State table tennis championships to be held in Meghalaya, Shillong.
The Table Tennis Federation of India (TTFI) on Tuesday termed Manika Batra's decision to not take the help of national coach Soumyadeep Roy during her matches at the Tokyo Olympics as a brazen 'act of indiscipline'.
The Indians had to make the 5-1 lead count in the first game to have any chance in the match but Lin and Cheng won eight points in a row to gain control.
The Indian paddler fought tooth and nail to take the second game from Long but eventually lost 7-11, 11-8, 11-13, 4-11, 4-11 in 46 minutes.
Sharath Kamal's progress to the third round of the men's singles in table tennis was the only bright spot on another gloomy day for India at the Tokyo Olympics on Monday.
The domination of home paddlers could be gauged from the fact that all finals on Monday featured only the Indians.
Following is India's schedule at the Asian Games in Hangzhou on Saturday, September 30.
Track and field athletes led India's gold rush on the third day of competitions at the 13th South Asian Games as the country added a whopping 29 medals to jump to the top of the medals tally, in Kathmandu, on Wednesday.
Sharath along with G Sathiyan has been handed a tough draw in the men's singles competition.
Seven Olympic and six Paralympic disciplines were identified for support at a meeting of the Mission Olympic Cell.
India's table tennis star Manika Batra alleged that national coach Soumyadeep Roy asked her to throw a match during the Olympic qualifiers in March and that was the main reason she refused his help during the Tokyo Games.
The men's team got the better of Northern Ireland and Trinidad and Tobago thrashing them both 3-0 while the women's team defeated Sri Lanka and Wales 3-0, 3-1 respectively.
A look at how India's athletes fared at the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Saturday
India's schedule at the Asian Games in Hangzhou on Monday, October 2.
Manika Batra and Mouma Das fought hard before going down against defending champions Feng Tianwei and Yu Mengyu to settle for a silver medal in the women's doubles, a first ever for India in the Commonwealth Games.
If only the shooters had found their targets, the story would have been so different! sighs Raj Kishore Mishra.
Track and field athletes, who were leading the Indian charge in the past few days, fetched the maximum 12 medals but just two of them were gold.
Check out India's schedule on Day 9 of the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast on Friday.
Check out India's schedule on Day 7 of the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, on Wednesday.
While a billion hearts would pray for all the participants to do well, all eyes would be set on the duo of Deepika Kumari/Atanu Das, the four shooters and Mirabai Chanu to open India's medals count.
Check out India's schedule on Day 8 of the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, on Thursday.
Following is India's schedule at the Asian Games in Hangzhou, on Thursday, September 28.
Avinash Sable's national mark headlines strong showing in IGP 2
Check out the complete schedule of Indian athletes at the Tokyo Olympics
