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Saurav Ghosal squandered a two-game advantage to narrowly miss out on becoming the first Indian squash player to win a gold medal at the Asian Games on Tuesday.
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He led by two games in the men's singles final before Kuwait's Abdullah Almezayen staged a dramatic fightback and won the next three to clinch the top prize.
Almezayen prevailed 10-12, 2-11, 14-12, 11-8, 11-9 at the Yeorumul Squash Courts.
Ghosal missed out on a gold medal point with the scoreline reading 12-11 in the third game, which eventually proved decisive.
Bindra exits with two bronze medals
Shooting ace Abhinav Bindra bid adieu to the Asian Games after clinching an individual bronze medal in men's 10 metres air rifle event.
He had earlier in the day guided India to a third place finish in the team event on the fourth day of competition in Incheon.
Before winning the individual bronze, Bindra teamed up with Sanjeev Rajput and Ravi Kumar to finish third on the podium and help India swell their medal tally to eight in the 17th edition of the mega event.
He finished third in 10m air rifle men's final, behind China's Haoran Yang and Yifei Cao, aggregating 187.1 points. His Chinese opponents, 18-year-old Haoran won gold, scoring 209.6 points, while Yifei won silver with 208.9.
Indian rowers enter medal round
Sawarn Singh Virk entered the final in the men's single sculls, while the double sculls and lightweight quadruple sculls teams also entered the medal rounds.
Sawarn claimed the top place in repechage 1 of the 2000 metres, finishing in seven minutes and 10.93 seconds. The 24-year-old placed ahead of Memo Memo of Indonesia, who took seven minutes and 13.38 seconds to complete the race at the Chungju Tangeum Lake Rowing Centre.
The double sculls teamm comprising Om Prakash and Dattu Baban Bhokanal, took first place in repechage 2 of their event.
They timed six minutes and 40.77 seconds, finishing ahead of the South Korean pair Hwigwan Kim and Dosub Choi, who also advanced to the final.
In the lightweight men's quadruple sculls repechage 1, Rakesh Raliya, Vikram Singh, Sonu Laxmi Narain and Shokendar Tomar finished second with a timing of six minutes and 13.97 seconds.
However, in the women's quadruple sculls repechage 1, Amanjot Kaur, Sanjukta Dung Dung, N Sarita Devi and Navneet Kaur had to be content with a fifth place finish after timing seven minutes and 51.39 seconds to enter final B, which is not a medal round.