Asian Games 2023 Day 7 Highlights: India win gold in squash, tennis; thrash Pakistan 10-2 in men's hockey

20:31 (IST)

That brings us to the end of our coverage of Day 7 of the 19th Asian Games, with India winning gold medals in men’s squash and tennis mixed doubles, a silver in the mixed team 10m air pistol event as well as a silver and bronze in the men’s 10000m race.

India’s medal count rises to 38 with 10 gold and 14 silver and bronze each, and they find themselves at the fourth spot, behind the big three (China, Japan and South Korea). The Indians are ahead of Uzbekistan by a solitary medal, with both nations having won 10 gold medals each.

India have also assured themselves medals in several other sports, including the badminton men’s team event where they defeated South Korea, as well as in the table tennis women’s doubles event where Ayhika and Suthirtha Mukherjee stunned China’s world No 2 pair Meng Chen and Yidi Wang to advance to the semis.

We’ll see you early tomorrow for our coverage of Day 8 of the Games. Till then, good night!

20:23 (IST)

Asian Games LIVE: Diving

India’s London Singh Hemam and Siddharth Bajrang Pardeshi are placed sixth in the Men’s Synchronised 3m Springboard event, collecting 279.87 points.

China’s Siyu Yan and Chao He (422.55) collect gold while Korea’s Jaegyeong Yi and Ha-ram Woo (393) and Malaysia’s Muhammad Syafiq Bin Puteh and Tze Liang Ooi (380) collect silver and bronze respectively.

20:18 (IST)

Asian Games LIVE: Athletics

India’s Nandini Agasara tops Heat 2 in Women’s Heptathlon 200m event with a personal best effort. Swapna Barman, meanwhile, finishes fourth in Heat 1.

20:14 (IST)

Here's how Indians have fared in bridge today

Update: #Bridge at #AsianGames2022

At the end of today's Round Robin Matches,

1. The Men's team ranked 2nd with 205.98 VPs.

2. The Mixed team ranked 4th with 178.62 VPs.

3. The Women team ranked 7th with 69.1 VPs.#Cheer4India