It was an eventful day at the Commonwealth Games (CWG) 2022. The game of Wrestling made its entry, and the Indian contingent packed a solid punch to grab four medals. The Table Tennis contingent had a mixed day, with experienced Sharath Kamal producing impressive performances.
Table Tennis
Mixed Doubles:
Sathiyan G/Manika Batra beat Nigerians Olajide Omotayo/Ajoke Ojomu 11-7 11-6 11-7 to enter the pre-quarters.
Achanta Sharath Kamal/Sreeja Akula win 3-2 win against Liam Pitchford/Tin-Tin Ho of England to reach the semis.
Women's Singles Classes 3-5: Bhavina Hasmukhbhai Patel beat England's Sue Bailey 11-6, 11-6, 11-6 to reach the finals.
Mixed Doubles: Sathiyan Gnanasekaran/Manika Batra lose 2-3 to Javen Choong/Karen Lyne of Malaysia in the quarter-finals.
Women's Singles:
Manika Batra beat Australia's Minhyung Jee 4-0 to enter the quarterfinals.
Sreeja Akula beats Charlotte Carey of Wales 4-3
Men's Singles - Round of 32:
Achanta Sharath Kamal beats Australia’s Finn Luu 12-10, 11-8, 11-7, 11-6
Sathiyan Gnanasekaran beats Paul Mccreery (Northern Ireland) 11-9, 11-9, 12-10, 13-11.
Men's Doubles:
Achanta Sharath Kamal/Sathiyan Gnanasekaran won 3-0 against Tom Jarvis/Sam Walker.
Harmeet Desai/Sanil Shetty lost loses 0-3 to Zhe Yu Clarence Chew/Shao Feng Ethan Poh of Singapore.
Para Table Tennis
Men's Singles Classes 3-5 - Semi-Final 1: Raj Aravindan Alagar loses 1-3 to Nigeria's Nasiru Sule
Athletics
Women's 100m Hurdles - Round 1 - Heat 2: Jyothi Yarraji finished 4th
Men’s 4x400m: India finished 2nd in Round 1 Heat 2 and advanced to finals. The likes of Muhammed Anas Yahiya, Noah Nirmal Tom, Muhammed Ajmal Variyathodi and Amoj Jacob were the participants from India.
Women's Long Jump: Ancy Sojan Edappally finished 13th and failed to make it to the finals.
Lawn Bowls
Women's Pairs - Quarter-Final: Lovely Choubey/Nayanmoni Saikia lose to England's Sophie Tolchard/ Amy Pharaoh 14-18.
Wrestling
Men's Freestyle 86 kg: Deepak Punia beat Muhammad Inam 3-0 to win a gold medal.
Men’s Freestyle 65kg- Bajrang Punia beat Lachlan Mcneil of Canada 9-2 in the Final to secure a gold medal.
Women's freestyle 57kg: Anshu Malik lost to Nigeria's Folasade Adekuoroye 3-7 and bagged a silver.
Women's freestyle 62 kg: Sakshi Malik beats Canada's Ana Gonzalez to fetch a gold medal.
Women’s Freestyle 68kg: Divya Kakran wins bronze medal in women's freestyle 68kg category by defeating Tiger Lily Cocker Lemalie of Tonga via Fall.
Badminton
Women's Doubles: Treesa Jolly/Gayatri Gopichand Pullela thrashed Mauritius' Sang Jemimah and Mungrah Ganesha 21-2, 21-4.
Men's Singles - Round of 16: Kidambi Srikanth beats Sri Lanka’s Dumindu Abeywickrama 21-9, 21-12.
Women's Singles - Round of 16: PV Sindhu beats Husina Kobugabe (Uganda) 21-10, 21-9
Squash:
Women's Doubles: Joshana Chinappa/Dipika Pallikal lost 0-2 against Yiwen Chan/Ainaa Ampandi of Malaysia and failed to reach the semis.