Anahat and Abhay finish with squash silver for India at Asian Games in Nagoya

Anahat Singh and Abhay Singh each took silver in the squash singles finals at the Asian Games in Nagoya on September 27, 2026, after straight-game defeats to Malaysian opponents.

India’s contingent entered the day having won 30 medals at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games — four gold, 12 silver and 14 bronze — and was scheduled for a busy medal programme on September 27, with shooters Manu Bhaker, Esha Singh and Rahi Sarnobat named for the women’s 25m pistol, long-jumpers Shaili Singh and Ancy Sojan in the women’s final, and athletes such as Parul Chaudhary and Tejaswin Shankar aiming for podium places; P.V. Sindhu was also due in the women’s singles quarterfinals. India had added medals across kabaddi, athletics, shooting and squash on September 26 and had earlier secured places in two squash singles finals.

In the men’s squash final Abhay Singh lost 3-0 to Malaysia’s Ng Eain Yow, with the deciding game finishing 5-11, leaving Abhay with the silver medal. The result contributed another podium return for India in squash at the Games.

Eighteen-year-old Anahat Singh was beaten 3-0 by Malaysia’s Sivasangari Subramaniam in the women’s singles title match and took silver after the straight-game defeat.

India’s badminton campaign produced several quarterfinal exits on the same day: Unnati Hooda was defeated by Japan’s Akane Yamaguchi 16-21, 21-14, 17-21 in the women’s singles, the women’s doubles pair Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand lost 18-21, 9-21 to Malaysia’s Pearly Tan and Thinaah Muralitharan, and the mixed doubles team Dhruv Kapila and Tanisha Crasto went down 14-21, 21-18, 18-21 to China’s world No. 1 pair Feng Yan Zhe and Huang Dongping. Treesa and Gayatri had claimed a maiden world championships bronze in New Delhi the previous month, while Pearly and Thinaah entered the match as the world No. 5 pairing and 2025 world championships silver medallists.

In athletics qualifiers, Murali Sreeshankar recorded a best effort of 7.84m to finish second in long jump qualification and David Patturaj Solomon reached the final with a 7.62m; Santhosh Tamilrasan advanced from the men’s 400m hurdles heats with a time of 49.61 seconds. In weightlifting, Harjinder Kaur finished ninth in the women’s 69kg with a combined total of 204kg, having lifted 94kg in the snatch and 110kg in the clean and jerk and failing two of her three snatch attempts.

India’s compound archery teams progressed through the round of 16 and quarter-finals: the men’s trio of Kushal Dalal, Sahil Jadhav and Ganesh Mani Ratnam beat the UAE 235-215 and Bhutan 235-232, while the women’s side of Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Chikitha Taniparthi and Prithika Pradeep defeated Mongolia 238-223 and edged Kazakhstan 233-230 in their quarter-final.

Several other events saw mixed outcomes for India: the sepaktakraw women’s doubles team of Prity Langoljam, Menenu Tsukru and Leirentonbi Devi Elangbam lost 0-2 (8-15, 3-15) to South Korea and 0-2 (12-15, 6-15) to the Philippines in Group B and were set to face Japan in their final group match on Monday, September 28; in kurash all four Indian competitors were defeated in their respective rounds; and boxer Ankush Panghal secured at least a bronze by beating Tajikistan’s Nekruz Salimov 5-0 in the men’s 80kg quarterfinal. India’s women’s kabaddi team won gold with a 37-34 victory over Iran.

Both Indian compound archery teams will meet South Korea in the semifinals on September 30, a confirmed next-stage fixture for those squads at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games.