The Indian team fought back from 2-1 down to beat Thailand 3-2 and reach the quarter-finals, where they will face North Korea.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Yashaswini Ghorpade kept India in the contest with two wins, while Sreeja Akula sealed the tie with a 3-1 (9-11, 11-6, 12-10, 11-8) victory over Olympian and Asian Games medallist Suthasini Sawettabut.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
India have so far won three Asian Games table tennis medals, all bronze. The breakthrough came at Jakarta 2018, where the Indian men\u2019s team won the country\u2019s first-ever table tennis medal at the Asian Games. Sharath Kamal and Manika Batra subsequently added another bronze in mixed doubles.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
At Hangzhou 2023, Sutirtha Mukherjee and Ayhika Mukherjee won bronze in the women\u2019s doubles, India\u2019s first Asian Games medal in the event.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Earleir, India's karate player Chetan Bhatt missed out on a podium finish in the men\u2019s 84kg kumite after losing to Chinese Taipei\u2019s Chung Meng-yu by Senshu in the bronze-medal bout on Tuesday.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
In the bronze medal clash, Chetan fought Chinese Taipei's Meng-yu Chu. The scores were level at 1-1 and Meng-yu was declared the winner via senshu.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Bhatt had earlier lost his semi-final 8-0 to Jordan\u2019s Mohammad Alja'Fari.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Meanwhile, India\u2019s quartet of Rohit Benediction, Danush Suresh, Rishabh Das and Akash Mani clocked 3:40.41s to finish seventh among 16 countries in the heats and qualify for the men\u2019s 4x100m medley relay final, scheduled for later in the day.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
In soft tennis, Aadhya Tiwari loses women\u2019s singles opener to Thailand\u2019s Alisha Ziegler 4-1 (1-4, 4-0, 4-0, 4-2, 6-4) in Group D. She will need to win her next match against Pakistan\u2019s Kainaat Shallwani to stand a chance of progressing.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Meanwhile, Jay Meena defeated Pakistan\u2019s Hussain Arain 4-0 (4-2, 4-0, 4-2, 4-0) in his only soft tennis men\u2019s singles match in Group D to progress to the knockouts.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
In soft tennis, Aadhya Tiwari loses women\u2019s singles opener to Thailand\u2019s Alisha Ziegler 4-1 (1-4, 4-0, 4-0, 4-2, 6-4) in Group D. She will need to win her next match against Pakistan\u2019s Kainaat Shallwani to stand a chance of progressing.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
So far, India have won six medals - four silvers and two bronze - at the Asian Games 2026.<\/p>\r\n\r\n