India's other boxer who was in action, Etash Khan lost 2-3 to Thailand's Khunatip Pidnuch in the round of 16 bout at the 2022 Asian Elite Boxing Championships in Amman, Jordan late on Friday.
The Indian badminton team defeated Chinese Taipei's Lu Ching Yao and Yang Po Han 21-13, 21-19 in the final after eliminating the top seeds from Japan, Takuro Hoki and Yugo Kobayashi, in the quarterfinals.
In the quarterfinals, the Indian badminton team defeated the top seeds from Japan, Takuro Hoki and Yugo Kobayashi. In the semifinals, they defeated Choi Sol Gyu and Kim Won Ho of South Korea by a score of 21-18, 21-14.
India's highest-ranked male shuttler in the tournament defeated China's Hu Zhe An in a three-set encounter, 21-18, 8-21, 21-16 in the quarterfinals. Sankar is now assured of a bronze medal.
Unnati Hooda, who won the women's singles title at the Odisha Open in January and went on to become the youngest Indian to win a BWF Super 100 title, will next play Japanese player Hina Akechi in the pre-quarterfinals.
At the Denmark Open last week, Lakshya Sen advanced to the quarterfinals while Kidambi Srikanth was eliminated in the round of 16 after losing to former world champion Loh Kean Yew of Singapore.
On a day when most bouts either ended in knockouts, it was Sanjeet, who lived up to his billing against Uttarakhand's 20-year-old Harish Singh, earning another RSC win to enter the quarterfinals.
Simranjit Kaur managed to breach through her opponent's defence on multiple occasions, before forcing the referee to give a standing count of eight to Rinki in the final round, en route to her unanimous 5-0 victory. Shiva warmed up in style by recording a 5-0 unanimous verdict win over home
Two hours before the start of their match, the toss-sheet had a change in the Indian line-up with left-handed Manush Shah slated to play for the first time, replacing Manav Thakkar, who had a good outing. In a like-for-like change, the Chinese pitted World No. 11 Wang Chuquin, a left-hander,