In the Incheon Asian Games, India's Sourav Ghoshal enters the squash men's singles finals, brightening India's chance for another gold medal. Ghosal defeated Malaysia's Ong Beng Hee in straight, 3-Nil. In squash Women's Singles, Dipika Pallikal lost to top seed David Nicol Ann of Malaysia, Nil-3 in the semi-finals and settled for a Bronze medal.The first Bronze of the day came in Shooting in the Women's 25-metre Pistol Team event. The trio of Heena Sidhu, Rahi Sarnobat and Anisa Sayyed finished third in the event to claim India's third Bronze in Shooting.Wushu a game formed on Chinese martial art also assured two more medals for India as Narender Grewal entered men's 60kg Sanda semifinals and Santhoi Devi entered women's 52 kg Sanda semi finals.Indian Women's Hockey team started their campaign with a victory over Thailand. Indian eves defeated Thailand 3-Nil. They will now take China on Wednesday. After a win and a loss at the qualifying round match, Indian Men's Basketball team defeated Kazakhstan 80-61.Commonwealth Games Medalist in Judo, Rajwinder Kaur lost her quarterfinals bout in the +78kg category. She was placed in repechage round but she lost to Kyrgyzstan's Nagira Sarbashova in final of repechage. Thus, missing out on bronze narrowly.In Swimming, India men's team finished 6th in 4x200m freestyle relay final. Earlier, Pratapan Nair finished sixth in the heats of the 50-metre backstroke category. The Men's and Women's Tennis teams bowed out in the quarterfinals to Kazakhstan's team.In Handball Indian Men's team lost to Japan 12-47 and Indian Women's team lost to China 12-39 in a group match.The Men's Football team lost to Jordan Nil-2 in their opening game. In Track Cycling, India's Amarjit Nagi finished 13th, while Amrit Singh ended 14th in Men's Sprint Qualifying.In Volleyball, Indian Women's team was routed by Japan Nil-3 in preliminary group stage match. In Swimming, Pratapan Nair finished sixth in the heats of the 50-meter backstroke category.
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Asian Games: Sourav Ghoshal enters squash men's singles finals