Saurav Ghosal was dominant in his men’s singles victory, while the mixed doubles pairs also waltzed their way into the semi-finals of the squash competition, assuring India of three medals in the Asian Games here on Tuesday.

Ghosal was in his elements while scoring a 11-5, 12-10, 11-3 win over Japan’s Ryunosuke Tsukue. The mixed doubles team of Anahat Singh and Abhay Singh defeated Yang Yeonsoo and Dongjun Lee 11-4, 8-11, 11-1 in 32 minutes.

India started the quarter finals on a bright note through the mixed doubles duo of Dipika Pallikal and Harindar Pal Singh Sidhu, who produced a come-from-behind victory over Jemyca Aribado and Andrew Garica of the Philippines 7-11, 11-5, 11-4.

However, it was curtains for India’s Tanvi Khanna as she lost to Satomi Watanabe in the women’s singles quarterfinals 5-11, 6-11, 12-14.

Ghosal, a gold medallist at the Incheon Games in 2014, brought forth his years of experience to put it against Tsukue winning the first game 11-4. But the Japanese gave the top-seeded Ghosal a more challenging time in the second game. However, Ghosal found an opening when the score was 11-10 and took that game at 12-10.

Once he conceded a 0-2 lead, the fight seemed to ebb out of the Japanese, as Ghosal needed just 10 minutes to wrap up the last game at 11-3.

PTI