Asian Games 2018 Live Update Day 3: India Bag Bronze in Men's Sepak Takraw, Indian Team Finish Behind Pakistan in Bridge

Tennis: In the mixed doubles, India's pair of Rohan Bopanna and Ankita Raina have won the first set against South Korea's Kim Nari and Lee Jeamoon 6-3.

India have bagged four medals, with three from shooting. Saurabh Chaudhary (Gold), Abhishek Verma (Bronze), Sanjeev Rajput (Silver) and the Bronze for Indian men's team in Sepak Takraw's Regu event. Here's a look at the total tally for us: 

Tennis: In the Mixed doubles Round of 32 match-up, India's pair of Rohan Bopanna and Ankita Raina are up against South Korea's Kim Nari and Lee Jeamoon. It’s 2-1 to Korea in the first set after they broke the Ankita Raina’s serve.

Fencing: India’s Jyotika Dutta’s impressive run has come to an end in the quarters of the women’s epee individual event after she lost to 3-15 to Hong Kong’s Kong Man Wai Vivian.

Here are the standings from the first round of the Bridge qualifiers for the men: 

Bridge: The Indian men’s team is in third position behind Chinese Taipei and Pakistan after the first of three qualification rounds.

Mixed Team Trap Final: Lebanon beat Chinese Taipei to the gold in the mixed team trap to claim their first Gold medal at the Asian Games. They win it by one point, scoring 43, while Taipei get 42. Here are the final standings: 

The Mixed team trap final has a heated battle going on for the Gold medal: Chinese Taipei and Lebanon have both missed 7 out of 45 shots. 

Greco-Roman Wrestling: In the men’s 67kg category, Manish took to the mat for his repechage bout, but due to his shoulder injury from earlier in the day, he can’t continue despite wanting to do so.

Women’s Freestyle 68 kg: Divya Kakran is through to the Bronze-medal round via repechage because of the lack of wrestlers in her category. She be up against Chen Wenling of Chinese Taipei for the Bronze.

Suprita Das, Senior Journalist: 

After the high from the pistol and rifle events this morning, disappointment from shotgun for India with a dismal last placed finish for the Lakshya-Shreyasi pairing. Poor shooting from Shreyasi brought India’s score down, and it was difficult to catch up after that. Shreyasi looked under pressure, hopefully she can recover in time for her individual event in a couple of days’ time. Dynamics between partners is key in mixed events. You do shoot individually, yes, and there’s little one shooter can do for his/her teammate, unlike a doubles event in tennis, badminton or squash, but there still needs to be some sort of common plane for the two shooters in the event, which was totally lacking for India unfortunately today. Impossible for one of the two to make up for both.

Meanwhile, the congratulations continue to flow in for Vinesh Phogat. Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar sending his best wishes.

Outstanding performance, @Phogat_Vinesh! In one swift move, you’ve clinched two firsts for our nation.. first Indian woman wrestler to bag a gold at the #AsianGames2018 and first Indian woman wrestler to win medals in two back-to-back Asian Games. Well done! pic.twitter.com/yirsMNHjZD

— Sachin Tendulkar (@sachin_rt) August 21, 2018

Bronze Medal: India have finished in the Men's Regu in Sepak Takraw with a Bronze medal after losing to Thailand 0-2 in the semi-final 

Mixed Team Trap Event: India will finish sixth and be the first to be eliminated no matter what after having missed 9 targets of the first 25. India were represented by Men's Trap silver medallist Lakshay Sheoran and Shreyasi Singh. India managed a total of 16 out of 25 targets. 

After 20 shots in the final of the Mixed Team Trap event: India have hit 11 targets out of 20 and are sixth. Kuwait, Korea, China, Lebanon and Chinese Taipei ahead of us in that order. This has been a terrible final for India. 

After 15 shots in the Mixed team trap final, India have hit 8 targets, and are bottom of the table with Korea, Kuwait, Lebanon, China and Chinese Taipei ahead of them in that order 

After 10 shots, India has missed a total of five shots, with Shreyasi missing four in her series of five, which has seen India drop down to sixth. 

Mixed Trap Explainer: 

The mixed trap is a replacement for the double trap event. In the final, each team gets 25 shots to be divided between the male and female shots. In the current final, the Indian coach has decided to give 19 year old Lakshya Sheoran 15 shots, and 10 to Shreyasi Singh. They take 5 shots at a time and hand over to the partner for the next five. 

After the first five shots, India have missed only 1 thanks to Lakshay Sheoran who went first. Up next will be Shreyasi Singh. There are four teams - China, Lebanon, Korea and India are tied on four targets, with Chinese Taipei leading the way. 

So the Mixed Team Trap Final is underway with India being represented by Shreyasi Singh and Lakshay Sheoran. Here's the line-up: 

Women’s Handball: India lose to North Korea 19-49 in their group match. India currently are at the bottom of their group after four defeats in as many matches.

Greco-Roman Wrestling: In the Men’s 67 kg Manish who lost in the quarter-finals to Aimat qualifies for the final. This means that Manish will have a shot at Bronze through the repechage.

The action at the women’s hockey event of the 18th Asian Games 2018 will progress further today with these four fixtures on the cards. Here’s how the action will play out at this continental competition on 21st August. #IndiaKaGame #AsianGames2018 pic.twitter.com/3NENB747zq

— Hockey India (@TheHockeyIndia) August 21, 2018

The men's hockey event of the 18th Asian Games 2018 advances to its second day with 6 matches on the schedule. Here’s how the teams will line up against each other on 22nd August 2018.​#IndiaKaGame #AsianGames2018 pic.twitter.com/15fsIcttLa

— Hockey India (@TheHockeyIndia) August 21, 2018

Women’s 76 kg freestyle Wrestling: Aiperi Medet loses in the semi-finals, which means there will be no repechage opportunity for India’s Kiran Bishnoi in this category.

And almost on cue, Rohan Bopanna and Divij Sharan are into the quarters of the men's doubles competition as well. Fairly straightforward for the Indian pair against Kadchapanan N and Trongcharoenchaik of Thailand.

But good news coming from Tennis! India's Ramkumar Ramanathan and Sumit Nagal have survived the challenge of fourth seeds Chen Ti and Peng H, are into the quarter finals of the men's doubles competition.

Meanwhile, India's Manish loses to Almat Kebispayev of Kazakhstan in the men's 67kg wrestling final in the Greco-Roman category. Manish appeared to have suffered an injury midway through the bout, but Kebispayev was the more dominant of the two from the start. 

Fencing: India’s Jyotika Dutta continues her impressive run in the women’s epee individual event. She’s progressed to the quarters with a 15-8 win over Thailand. She has now won 5 of her 6 bouts today.

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