All-win day for Indian paddlers at Asian Games

INCHEON: Indian paddlers enjoyed an all-win day today at the Asian Games as country's top doubles duo of Achanta Sharath Kamal and Anthony Amalraj reached the men's doubles third round here today.

Amalraj and Kamal unexpectedly lost the first game before taming the Nepal's Purshottam Bajracharya and Amar Lal Malla 6-11, 11-5, 11-8, 12-10.

The Indian pair, who got a bye in the opening round, took 22 minutes to defeat players from the Himalayan nation.

Also booking a third round berth in the men's doubles was the pair of Harmeet Desai and Soumyajit Ghosh as they took just 15 minutes to disptach Yemen's Omar Ahmed Ali and Mohammed Fahd Gubran 12-10, 11-5, 11-6.

In the mixed doubles pre-quarterfinals, the combine of Amalraj and Madhurika Patkar rallied to beat Japan's Seiya Kishikawa and Ai Fukuhara 5-11, 13-11, 11-8, 11-4 in 26 minutes to reach the quarter-finals.