CWG Day 8: Overnight Round-up - Women's hockey team to play for bronze, badminton, TT & squash results

Day 8 at Commonwealth Games 2022 proved to be the most productive day for India as all 6 wrestlers won medals, including a gold each by Bajrang Punja, Deepak Punia and Sakshi Malik. Here is how other overnight results went by.

HOCKEY

Indian women's hockey team suffered a heartbreaking loss vs Australia in the semifinals as they lost the game on penalty shootouts. They will now play New Zealand for the Bronze medal next.

LAWN BOWLS

India's men's fours team of Sunil Bahadur, Navneet Singh, Chandan Kumar Singh and Dinesh Kumar beat hosts England by a close 13-12 margin to book a berth in the final. They are now assured of at least a silver.

TABLE TENNIS

Sharath Kamal, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran and Sanil Shetty won their respective men's singles round of 16 games to advance to the quarterfinals.

Sreeja Akula had to fight it hard as she eventually won her game 4-3 to enter the women's singles last 8 round. However, Manika Batra suffered a 0-4 defeat against Jian Zeng of Singapore and was knocked out.

BADMINTON

Shuttlers Lakshya Sen and Aakarshi Kashyap sailed through to the quarter-finals with comfortable wins. While Lakshya beat Ying Xiang Lin 21-9, 21-16 in the men's singles round of 16, Kashyap thrashed Eva Kattirtzi 21-2, 21-7 in women's singles.

SQUASH

The pair of Dipika Pallikal and Saurav Ghosal beat Rachael Grinham and Zac Alexander of Australia 2-0 in the Mixed Doubles quarters to advance to the semifinals.

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