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Manika Batra and Sreeja Akula entered the women's singles quarterfinals in the table tennis event of the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham on Friday. Batra steamrolled Australian Jee Minhyung 11-4 11-8 11-6 12-10 to book her place in the quarterfinal. The 27-year-old star paddler will now take on Singapore's Jian Zeng in the last eight-clash later tonight.
Day 7 of the ongoing Commonwealth Games saw India add two medals -- a gold and silver -- to their kitty. With six gold, seven silver and seven bronze medals, India are currently seventh in medals tally, having won a total of 20 medals. India's Sudhir bagged a gold in the men's heavyweight final of para powerlifting to end Day 7 on a positive note. Murali Sreeshankar had also clinched a historic silver for India with a best jump of 8.08m in the men's long jump.
Here's India's complete schedule of Day 8 at the CWG 2022:Lawn Bowls1 PM: India vs England in Women's Pairs - Quarterfinal Table Tennis2 PM: Sathiyan Gnanasekaran/Manika Batra vs Olajide Omotayo/Ajoke Ojomu (Nigeria) in Mixed Doubles Round of 16 Achanta Sharath Kamal/Sreeja Akula vs Chee Feng Leong/Ying Ho (Malaysia) in Mixed Doubles - Round of 16 Para Table Tennis2:40 PM: Sonalben Patel vs Ifechukwude Christiana Ikpeoyi (Nigeria) in Women's Singles Classes 3-5 - Semikinal 2 Bhavina Patel vs Sue Bailey (England) in Women's Singles Classes 3-5 - Semifinal 1 Raj Aravindan Alagar vs Nasiru Sule (Nigeria) in Men's Singles Classes 3-5 - Semifinal 1 Wrestling3 PM: Men's Freestyle 125kg (Mohit Grewal) Men's Freestyle 65kg (Bajrang Punia) Men's Freestyle 86kg (Deepak Punia) Women's Freestyle 57kg (Anshu Malik) Women's Freestyle 68kg (Divya Kakran) Women's Freestyle 62kg (Sakshi Malik) Athletics3:06 PM: Women's 100m Hurdles - Round 1 - Heat 2 (Jyothi Yarraji) Table Tennis3:15 PM: Manika Batra vs Minhyung Jee (Australia) in Women's Singles - Round of 16 Reeth Tennison vs Tianwei Feng (Singapore) in Women's Singles - Round of 16 Sreeja Akula vs Charlotte Carey (Wales) in Women's Singles - Round of 16 Table Tennis3:55 PM: Achanta Sharath Kamal/Sathiyan Gnanasekaran vs Ramhimlian Bawm/Mohutasin Ahmed Ridoy (Bangladesh) in Men's Doubles - Round of 16 Harmeet Desai/Sanil Shetty vs Dillon Chambers/Xin Yan (Australia) in Men's Doubles - Round of 16 Badminton4:10 PM: Jolly Treesa/Gayatri Gopichand vs Jemimah Leung For Sang/Mungrah (Mauritius) in Women's Doubles - Round of 16 Athletics4:10 PM: Women's Long Jump - Qualifying Round Group A (Ancy Sojan Edappilly) Athletics4:19 PM: Men's 4x400m Relay - Round 1 Heat 2 (Amoj Jacob, Naganathan
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SINGAPORE: Shanti Pereira set a new national record in the 200m heats at the 2022 Commonwealth Games on Thursday (Aug 4) with a time of 23.46s, qualifying for the semi-finals of the event.
Day 6 of the ongoing Commonwealth Games was another fruitful outing for the Indian contingent as they managed to silver and bronze medals to their kitty. High jumper Tejaswin Shankar ended up winning the bronze medal while judoka Tulika Maan clinched the silver medal. Squash star Saurav Ghoshal also took home the bronze medal after defeating England's James Willstrop.
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