Giving a tough fight to their opponent, Women Kabaddi team settles for silver at Asian Games

Jakarta, August 24: With grabbing gold in Men’s Double Tennis Event, Indian women's kabaddi team settled for silver at the Asian Games 2018 after a 24-27 loss too Iran in the final in Jakarta. Their silver medal came after the men's kabaddi team settled for a bronze for the first time since kabaddi was included in the multi-sport event.

India women were looking for their third consecutive gold medal at the Asian Games but it was not to be as Iran completed a double and both the men and the women took the yellow metal.

However, Indian women put up a massive fight in the end and did not go down easy -- a stark contrast with how the men went down in the semi-final yesterday.

With the silver medal, India now have a total of 24 medals -- 6 gold, 5 silver and 13 bronze.

Earlier in the day for India, Rohan Bopanna and Divij Sharan won the gold medal in the men's doubles tennis event with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Kazakhstan's Aleksandr Bublik and Denis Yevseyev in the final in Jakarta.

Before that gold, Indian rowers put up a fabulous show as the Indian team clinched a gold medal in the men's Quadruple Sculls final. Before that gold, Dushyant Chauhan bagged the bronze medal in the men's Lightweight Single Sculls final and the team of Rohit Kumar and Bhagwan Singh took a bronze in the men's Lightweight Double Sculls final.

Also, Heena Sidhu settled for bronze in the 10m Air Pistol Women event after finishing with a score of 219.2 while Manu Bhaker endured another disappointing day in Palembang with a fifth-place finish in the same event.