India added seven medals on the sixth day of Jakarta Palembang 2018 Asian Games to take its medal tally to 25. However, if it saw big gold medal wins in tennis (Rohan Bopanna-Divij Sharan won Men’s Doubles finals) and in rowing (Indian team won Men’s Quadruple Sculls), several big names such as Kidambi Shrikant, Manu Bhaker, HS Prannoy suffered a shock defeat. Not to forget, Iran defeated Indian women's kabaddi team in the gold medal match. Overall, day six produced mixed results, and it’s time to focus on the next big day at Asian Games 2018. According to Day 7 India schedule, eyes will be on squash with Joshna Chinappa, Dipika Pallikal and Saurav Ghosal in semi-finals. From badminton, Saina Nehwal and PV Sindhu will be in action. Track and field events will also kick off on Saturday, so get ready to see Hima Das, Dutee Chand among many in medal contention. Check full fixtures list of Indian athletes in action on August 25 with their match timings in IST. Asian Games Medal Tally 2018 Updated: Check India's Medal Tally in Current Table and Country-Wise Medal Standings.
Asian Games 2018 has seen big names, the ones who were dubbed favourites to win medals in the prestigious multi-sports tournament miserably failed. From Sushil Kumar and Sakshi Malik in wrestling to Manu Bhaker and Shreyasi Singh in shooting to Sathish Sivalingam in weightlifting to Kidambi Srikanth and HS Prannoy in badminton to Dipa Karmakar in artistic gymnastics. Both men’s and women’s kabaddi team who were seven-time champions at Asiad were beaten by Iran and had to settle with bronze and silver respectively. But there have been positives, major ones and importantly, there is scope for a lot more. Here looking at the complete schedule of Indian athletes in action on Day 7 of Asian Games 2018.
Archery
Women’s team Recurve (1/8 Eliminations) – India vs Mongolia – 8:00 AM
Men’s team Recurve (1/8 Eliminations) – India vs Vietnam – 9:20 AM
Athletics
Men’s Long Jump (Qualification) – Sreeshankar – 5:15 PM
Men’s 400m (Qualification) – Rajiv Arokia, Muhammad Anas – 9:40 AM
Men’s Shot Put (Qualification) – Tejinder Toor – 6:30 PM
Women’s 100m (Qualification) – Dutee Chand – 6:00 PM
Women’s 400m (Qualification) – Nirmala Sheoran, Hima Das – 7:05 PM
Women’s Hammer Throw – Sarita R Singh – 5:10 PM
Women’s 10,000m – Sanjivani Baburao Jadhav, Suriya Loganathan – 6:30 PM
Badminton
Men’s Doubles: Saitwiksairaj Rankireddy/Chirag Shetty vs S Choi/M Kang (Korea), Manu Atri/B. Sumeeth Reddy vs J Li/Y Liu (China)
Women’s Singles: Round of 16: Saina Nehwal vs Fitriani (Indonesia) – 11:30 AM, PV Sindhu vs Gregoria Mariska Tunjung (Indonesia) – 11:30 PM
Women’s Doubles: Ashwini Ponnappa/N. Sikki Reddy vs Q Chen/Y Jia (China) – 11:30 AM
Bowling
Men’s team of six (1st block) – India – 7:30 AM (2nd Block: Gold Medal event – 1:30 PM)
Boxing
Men’s light flyweight (49 kg) – Amit Panghal – 11:30 PM
Men’s Bantam (56 kg) – Mohammad Hussamuddin – 11:30 PM
Men’s Light Welterweight (64 kg) – Dheeraj Rangi – 11:30 PM
Men’s Middleweight (75 kg) – Vikas Krishan Yadav – 11:30 PM
Women’s Lightweight (60 kg) – Pavitra – 4:30 PM
Bridge
Men’s team: Qualification round 12 – India (currently at 7th) – 8:30 AM
Mixed team: (Round Robin 2 – Round 6) – India (currently at 1st) – 8:30 AM
Supermixed team: Qualification round 8 – India (currently at 6th) – 8:30 AM
Equestrian
Eventing Individual (Cross-Country) – Ashish Malik, Rakesh Kumar, Jitender Singh, Fouaad Mirza – 5:30 AM
Same line-up for Eventing Team event (5:30 AM) and Eventing Jumping Qualifier (7:30 AM)
Golf
Women’s individual (Round 3) – 4:30 AM
Women’s team (Round 3) – 4:30 AM
Men’s individual (Round 3) – 5:03 AM
Men’s team (Round 3) – 5:03 AM
Handball
Women’s 9/10th place match – India vs Malaysia – 12:30 PM
Hockey
Women’s: India vs Korea – 6:30 PM
Sailing
49er Men (Race 3): Varun Ashok Thakkar, Ganapathy Kelapanda Chengappa – 10:30 AM
49er FX Women (Race 3): Varsha Gautham, Sweta Shervegar – 10:35 AM
Laser Radial (Race 3): Nethra Kumanan – 10:35 AM
Open Laser 4.7 (Race 3) – Govind Bairagi, Harshita Tomar – 10:40 AM
Mixed RS One (Race 3) – India (4th) – 10:40 AM
Sepak takraw
Men’s Regu – Preliminary (Group B) – India vs Korea – 12:30 PM
Shooting
Women’s Skeet – Ganemat Sekhon (Squad 1), Rashmi Rathore (Squad 2) – 6:30 AM
Men’s Skeet – Angar Vir Singh Bajwa (Squad 5), Sheeraz Shaikh (Squad 7) – 7:00 AM
Men’s 25m Rapid Fire Pistol (Qualification – Stage 2) – Shivam Shukla, Anish Bhanwala – 7:30 AM
Sport Climbing
Men’s Combined – Chingkheinganba Maibam (11th), Bharath Stephen Kamath Pereira (17th) – 7:45 AM
Women’s Combined – Shreya Sanjay Nankar (4th)
Squash
Men’s Singles Semifinal – Saurav Ghosal vs Chun Ming Aun (Hong Kong, China) – 3:30 PM
Women’s Singles Semifinal - Dipika Pallikal Karthik vs Ann Nicol David (Malaysia) – 1:30 PM, Joshna Chinappa vs Sivasangari Subramaniam (Malaysia) – 2:30 PM
Volleyball (indoor event)
Men’s – India vs Maldives – 8:30 AM
Women’s – India vs Chinese Taipei – 5:30 PM
Weightlifting
Men’s 94 kg – Vikas Thakur – 12:30 PM
Dipika, Joshna and Saurav have assured three medals for India in squash. With young 15-year-old Anish Bhanwala in red-hot form, one would hope the boy to make the country proud with his fine form in Men’s 25m Rapid Fire Pistol. Star female shuttlers PV Sindhu and Saina Nehwal would be itching to prove their mettle and make up for the poor performance by their male counterparts in the singles event. There are so many matches to look forward to and cheer for our athletes as they give their best to take India to newer heights at the 18th Asiad.
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