Asian Games 2018, Day 13: 36-year-long wait to continue as India finish with women's hockey silver

Hello and welcome to the highlights of Day 13 of Asian Games 2018 from Jakarta and Palembang.

Medal winners of the day

India - Silver in women's hockey

Varsha Gautham and Sweta Shervegar - Silver in Sailing (49er FX Women).

Harshita Tomar - Bronze in Sailing (Open Laser 4.7).

Varun Thakkar and Ganapathy Chengappa - Bronze in Sailing (49er Men event).

India men's team - Bronze in Squash

Vikas Krishan - Bronze in men's middleweight boxing (withdrew from SF with injury).

India wasn't able to add a gold medal to its tally but finished Day 13 with a total of six medals. 

India women's hockey team could have played better in the final quarter, in which Japan completely dominated. They ran down the clock (after taking the lead in the dying minutes of the third quarter) without much trouble. 

The Indian struggled to keep possession throughout the match and the final quarter was a poor reflection of their ability. 

The day ends with a silver medal to the women's hockey team. 

Friday started with the disappointing news of Vikas Krishan pulling out of his middleweight semi-final with an injury. The Indian men's squash team were beaten by Hong Kong 2-0 in the semi-final. 

However, sailors did India proud by bagging three medals. 

Boxer Amit Panghal worked his way into the light flyweight final while the women's squash team will be going for golden glory tomorrow. They had stunned a star-studded Malaysian team in the semi-final today. 

India men's hockey team will be up against Pakistan in the bronze medal tomorrow, the country's last day at the Games. 

Japan create history, win their first-ever women's hockey gold at the Asiad. The Indian women's 36-year-long wait for the yellow metal continues. 

More importantly, India miss an opportunity to seal a direct berth for the Tokyo Olympics in 2020. 

They had reached the final for the first time after 1998 in the ongoing Games. However, they were bettered by a brilliant defensive display from Japan, who win the hard-fought final 2-1. 

Japan went ahead with a crucial goal in the third quarter and put pressure on Rani Rampal's women. 

India were quite ordinary in the fourth quarter even as Japan crowded their defence and made umpteen interruptions. 

Rani and Vandhana missed a relatively difficult opportunity towards the end. Barring the missed-chance, there was nothing much for the Indians in the final quarter. Top effort from the Japanese, who expertly ran the clock down. 

Only three minutes to go!

Indians are getting frustrated as the Japanese are running down the clock with ease. They are taking the ball to the corners.

The former champions are down to 10 women as Monica gets yellow-carded for a push.

Fourth quarter (7 min): Japan, as expected, have crowded their defence. They're doing a good job in the midfield as well. India need to stay calm and look to create opportunities. 

With less than nine minutes to go, it remains IND 1-2 JPN in the women's hockey gold medal match. 

Third quarter (14 min): Second penalty corner for Japan and they convert again! A good time to take the lead as there is only a minute left in the third quarter.

Kawamura Motomi scores from a penalty corner. A slight variation and Indian defenders are stunned. Not good defending this!

Third quarter (5 min): A good counter-attack by Navjot Kaur and Vandhana. However, India are denied a goal by the Japanese shot-stopper.

India have looked better in the first five minutes of this third quarter.

In 30 minutes, we will get to know the new Asian women's hockey champions. The Indian defence needs to stay alert and try to keep the ball more like they did in the second part of the second quarter. 

Japan dominated the second quarter with a lot of possession but Navneet's brilliance helped India claw back into the match. It will give them the much-needed breather against this Japanese team, who are relentlessly putting pressure on the former champions. 

Neha Goyal scores! Indian fans celebrate. There is a big sense of relief on coach Marijne's face.

Navneet Kaur set up the goal. She bustled forward and sent a cross towards the far post. All that Goyal had to do was put her stick in the way of the incoming ball.

India cannot afford to relax as Japan aren't going to get bogged down. 

The Japanese midfield and defence have been in top form since the start of the second quarter. Hardly any possession for Rani & co. 

Shimizu Minami's goal separates the two teams at the end of the first quarter. Both teams had created quite a few chances but Japan found the back of the net. 

India need to avoid losing possession as often as they did in the first quarter for the remainder of the match. 

First quarter (11 min): Japan go 1-0 up!

Oikawa Shihori scores from a penalty corner. It is safe to say that the goal came against the run of play.

India had gotten their first penalty corner 10 minutes into the first quarter. Navneet did the push out and Gurjit Kaur took it. 

However, India were denied the lead as it was a brilliant save from the Japanese shot-stopper even the ball headed towards the top corner.

First quarter (8 min): Savita makes a good save to keep it 0-0.

The Indian defenders were expecting a foul and seemingly stopped play even as the Japanese forwards were trying to find spaces inside the 'D'.

First quarter (5 min): Strong start for India, they create a chance as early as in the fifth minute!

Great interception by Rani and she played a good ball to Navneet, who turned around and struck it straight into the Japanese keeper.

Rani misses what seemed to be a straight-forward chance off the rebound.

The big evening is here. India women's team are bidding to win their first gold in 36 years and a direct entry to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. 

And there's good support for the Indian team at the GBK Hockey Field. 

 Rani's girls are ready. The national anthem is being played at the venue. 

We're 20 minutes away from the big gold medal match! India, under Sjoerd Marijne, have been phenomenal at the Asian Games. However, a big test and a high-pressure match await them. 

Rani Rampal's girls have become the first Indian women's team to reach the Asiad hockey final in 20 years. Can they go on to end a 36-year-old gold medal-drought? 

India had comfortably crushed the likes of Indonesia (8-0), Kazakhstan (21-0), Korea (4-1), Thailand (5-0) in the group stages.

However, they were made to work hard in the semi-final by China, whom Rani's girls outclassed by a solitary goal.

Nonetheless, what was impressive was the team's composure.

To put things into perspective, the men's team lost a closely-fought semi-final to Malaysia after conceding an equaliser in the penultimate minute of the fourth quarter.

Top class boxing bout! Amit Panghal manages to beat Paalam Carlo of Philippines via split decision (3-2) in the men's light flyweight semi-final!

Panghal, the 2018 Commonwealth Games silver medalist, was dominated in the first round by the 20-year-old Filipino boxer. The Indian pugilist though came back well in the second round.

The final round was interrupted quite a few times but both boxers came up with top-class punches. 

Panghal and the Indian boxing contingent will be delighted with the result, especially after Vikas Krishan pulled out of the middleweight semi-final with an injury earlier in the day. 

Panghal will be battling with Uzbekistan's Dusmatov for the gold medal tomorrow. 

Defending champions India have lost semi-final 2-0 to Hong Kong. 

Saurav Ghosal, India's top-ranked squash player, had lost the first rubber of the men's team semi-final to Ho Yin Lee in straight games. 

Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu went down against Ming Chun Au in the second game as Hong Kong booked a place in the final!

India's Ramananda Sharma has qualified for the final of men's 3m springboard diving after finishing ninth in the qualification round.

He will be competing in the final at 7:10 pm IST.

Meanwhile, Prakant Sharma ana Jamesboy Singh Onam have made it to the Canoe Double 200m Final - A after topping the semi-final 1.

Varun Thakkar and Ganapathy Chengappa have won bronze in 49er Men event.

The duo finished with a net of 43 points, while gold medalists Shingen Furuya and Shinji Hachiyama of Japan finished with 39 points after 15 races.

South Korea's Bonjin Chae and Dongwook Kim took bronze with 42.5 points.

Varsha Gautham and Sweta Shervegar win silver in 49er FX Women. They finish with net points of 40 while Indonesia's Lim Min Kimberly and Low Rui Qi Cecilla take gold with net points of 14.

Meanwhile, Harshita Tomar of India won bronze in the Open Laser 4.7 event with net points of 50.

Goving Bairagi missed the medal after finishing fourth with 63 points.

Net points are calculated after 12 races in each events.

Indian track and field athletes were on fire at the Asian Games. 19 medals, including seven golds, were won. There were quite a few notable performances as well. 

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India's table tennis campaign at Asian Games 2018 comes to an end with Sathiyan losing his men's R16 tie to higher-ranked Kenta Matsudaira 11-9, 4-11, 9-11, 6-11, 10-12.

The Inida No. 2 fought hard but Matsudaira didn't let his opponent back into the game once he clinched the second game by a convincing margin. 

India finish with two historic medals at the Games — men's team bronze and mixed doubles bronze (Sharath Kamal and Manika Batra). 

Sathiyan G, India's long-standing singles table tennis player, has lost the fourth game of his R16 against higher-ranked Kenta Matsudaira of Japan 11-6. He trails 3-1 and is in danger of getting knocked out. 

Close game but G Sathiyan manages to take the first game of men's singles Round of 16 tie against higher-ranked Kenta Matsudaira of Japan 11-9. 

G Sathiyan, India's second-ranked table tennis star, takes on world number 19 Kenta Matsuda of Japan in the men's singles Round of 16.

The match will begin shortly.

India have beaten defending champions Malaysia to reach the final of women's team for the second straight time at the Asian Games. 

The Indian team, consisting of Dipika Pallikal, Joshna Chinnappa, Sunanya Kuruvilla and Tanvi Khanna, have beaten Malaysia 2-0. 

Vikas Krishan has pulled out of his middleweight semi-final bout with an eye injury, reports AFP. 

A source within the Indian team has told the agency that he is unfit to take part in the semi-final. 

The 26-year-old had suffered a nasty cut just above his left eye after an accidental clash of heads in the first round of his quarter-final against China's Erbieke Tanglatihan on Wednesday.

His semi-final bout was scheduled for 6 pm IST today. 

Manika Batra delayed what seemed to be the inevitable by taking the third game 11-6. However, she loses the fifth game and eventually the Round of 16 match to fifth-ranked Wang Manyu of China. 

With Sharath Kamal also knocked out, Sathiyan G is the only remaining Indian competitor in the singles category. 

What a comeback this from Manika Batra! She was in danger of being blanked by world number five Wang Manyu of China after losing the first three games of the women's singles Round of 16.

However, the CWG gold medalist from India roared back into the match, taking a 7-0 lead and then closing out the game 11-6.

Achantha Sharath Kamal's quest for a maiden individual Asiad medal ends. He loses Round of 16 tie to higher-ranked and 2014 Games bronze medalist Chuang Chihyuan of Chinese Taipei 4-2. 

Manika Batra played positive table tennis in the second game after being blown away in the first (11-2).

The Commonwealth Games champion was leading for the most part of the game but let Wang Manyu come into the game and take it 11-8.

Another tight game. Sharath Kamal didn't let Chuang Chihyuan run away with the lead but the Chinese Taipei shuttler managed to find a way and win the game 11-9 in eight minutes. It's 3-2 in favour of the 2014 bronze medalist. 

Easy peasy for 19-year-old Wang Manyu of China. She takes the first game 11-2 in just five minutes against the top-ranked Indian paddler. 

Sharath Kamal has made it 2-2 against Chinese Taipei's Chuang in the men's singles R16 after winning the fourth game 16-14. The veteran Indian came back from behind to save two game points and stretch the game to 13 minutes. 

Manika Batra takes on Wang Manyu in the women's Round of 16 tie. 

Squash

Women's team semi-final: 9:30 am IST

India vs Malaysia

Men's team semi-final: 2:30 pm IST

India vs Hong Kong

Hockey

Gold medal match women: 6:30 pm IST

India vs Japan

Boxing

Men's Light flyweight semi-final: 4:45 pm IST

Amit Panghal

Men's middleweight semi-final: 6 pm IST

Vikas Krishan

Table Tennis

Men's singles Round of 16

Sharath Kamal vs Chuang Chihyuan: 9:30 am IST

Sathiyan G vs Kenta Matsudaira: 11:30 am IST

Women's singles Round of 16

Manika Batra vs Wang Manyu: 10:30 am IST

Sailing

49er Men race, 49er FX Women race 15, Laser Radial race 12, Open Laser 4.7 race 12, Mixed RS one race 15 will begin from 10:30 am IST

Roller Skate

Men's Road 20km Race: 12:30 pm IST

Harshveer Singh, Amitesh Mishra

Women's Road 20km Race: 1:30 pm IST

Varsha Puranik, Aarathy Kasturi Raj

Achantha Sharath Kamal will begin table tennis proceedings for India today. The veteran paddler, who has already won two bronze medals in the ongoing Games, will be facing Chuang Chihyuan of Chinese Taipei in the Round of 16. 

The match will start, shortly. 

Dipika Pallikal, Joshna Chinappa Sunanya Kuruvilla, and Tanvi Khanna will be in action in the women's team semi-final.

The India team faces a stiff test against Malaysia, who will be led by the veteran Nicol David.

Subramaniam Sivasangari, the silver medalist in women's singles, will also be part of the Malaysian squad.

Meanwhile, India women finish 10th in volleyball. They lost their final classification match to Chinese Taipei 3-0.

India's Esow and Ranjit Singh have finished their Men's Keirin campaigns without medals.

Esow finished last in the first heat of Round 1 repechages while Ranjit finished fifth.

Only the two three from each heat qualified for the final.