<p>World number three Saina lost 8-21 21-8 19-18 to last edition's silver medallist and world number 12 Yip Pui Yin in a fiercely fought quarter-final match, which lasted 46 minutes. Poor form also continued to haunt the fancied shooters with Gagang Narang flopping yet again.<br /><br />Apart from the silver-winning feat of the rowers, shooter Vijay Kumar bagged a bronze medal and Paramjeet Samota assured himself of at least a bronze after punching his way into the semifinals of super heavyweight on yet another mediocre day for the large Indian contingent.<br /><br />With the addition of two silvers and a bronze, India took their medals tally to one gold, seven silver and eight bronze but the failure to win the coveted gold has resulted in a continuous slide in the position on the table in the last few days.<br /><br />India, who found themselves in the 11th position on the medal rostrum yesterday, climbed down by one rung to the 12th spot. China maintained their supremacy atop the table with a whopping tally of 109-47-46 while South Korea (37-30-42) and Japan (21-45-38) also hung on to their second and third position respectively.<br /><br />Tennis star Sania Mirza had a trouble-free day as she sailed into the pre-quarterfinals of the women's singles with a straight-set demolition of Hong Kong's Chan Wing Yau Venise while the racqueters got off to a good start with both men's and women's team progressing to the quarterfinals of the squash singles event.<br /><br />On the gloomier side, the Indian challenge in table tennis ended with Achanta Sharath Kamal and Anthony Amalraj bowing out in the pre quarterfinals of the men's singles event. It was a similar story in men's singles badminton with Arvind Bhatt crashing out out in the pre-quarterfinals.<br /><br />It was the men's rowing four team of Anil Kumar, Saji Thomas, Ranjit Singh and Jenil Krishnan which began the silver collection as they completed the distance of 2000m in 6:16.79, behind China (6:06.40). Uzbekistan won bronze with a timing of 6:22.70.<br /><br />In the men's lightweight four event final, the Indian quartet of Lokesh Kumar, Manjeet Singh, Rajesh Kumar Yadav and Satish Joshi finished second with a timing of 6:13.32, behind Japan who clocked 6:10.14. Hong Kong won the bronze, clocking 6:14.84.<br /><br />After three barren days at the Aoti shooting range, Vijay Kumar notched up his second and India's fifth medal in shooting by bagging a bronze in men's 25m center fire pistol but Commonwealth Games hero Narang missed out on a bronze by a whisker in 50m rifle 3 positions.</p>
<p>World number three Saina lost 8-21 21-8 19-18 to last edition's silver medallist and world number 12 Yip Pui Yin in a fiercely fought quarter-final match, which lasted 46 minutes. Poor form also continued to haunt the fancied shooters with Gagang Narang flopping yet again.<br /><br />Apart from the silver-winning feat of the rowers, shooter Vijay Kumar bagged a bronze medal and Paramjeet Samota assured himself of at least a bronze after punching his way into the semifinals of super heavyweight on yet another mediocre day for the large Indian contingent.<br /><br />With the addition of two silvers and a bronze, India took their medals tally to one gold, seven silver and eight bronze but the failure to win the coveted gold has resulted in a continuous slide in the position on the table in the last few days.<br /><br />India, who found themselves in the 11th position on the medal rostrum yesterday, climbed down by one rung to the 12th spot. China maintained their supremacy atop the table with a whopping tally of 109-47-46 while South Korea (37-30-42) and Japan (21-45-38) also hung on to their second and third position respectively.<br /><br />Tennis star Sania Mirza had a trouble-free day as she sailed into the pre-quarterfinals of the women's singles with a straight-set demolition of Hong Kong's Chan Wing Yau Venise while the racqueters got off to a good start with both men's and women's team progressing to the quarterfinals of the squash singles event.<br /><br />On the gloomier side, the Indian challenge in table tennis ended with Achanta Sharath Kamal and Anthony Amalraj bowing out in the pre quarterfinals of the men's singles event. It was a similar story in men's singles badminton with Arvind Bhatt crashing out out in the pre-quarterfinals.<br /><br />It was the men's rowing four team of Anil Kumar, Saji Thomas, Ranjit Singh and Jenil Krishnan which began the silver collection as they completed the distance of 2000m in 6:16.79, behind China (6:06.40). Uzbekistan won bronze with a timing of 6:22.70.<br /><br />In the men's lightweight four event final, the Indian quartet of Lokesh Kumar, Manjeet Singh, Rajesh Kumar Yadav and Satish Joshi finished second with a timing of 6:13.32, behind Japan who clocked 6:10.14. Hong Kong won the bronze, clocking 6:14.84.<br /><br />After three barren days at the Aoti shooting range, Vijay Kumar notched up his second and India's fifth medal in shooting by bagging a bronze in men's 25m center fire pistol but Commonwealth Games hero Narang missed out on a bronze by a whisker in 50m rifle 3 positions.</p>