Chetan Bhatt suffers heartbreak, loses Asian Games bronze medal to Chinese Taipei on Senshu

India’s Chetan Bhatt suffered heartbreak on the Asian Games 2026 after dropping the lads’s Kumite 84kg bronze medal playoff to Chinese Taipei’s Meng-yu Chung on Tuesday.The bout on the Toyohashi Gymnasium ended 1-1 after regulation time, however Chung walked away with the bronze medal on the idea of Senshu, which is awarded to the athlete who scores the primary level with out conceding one beforehand.Asian Games Full Coverage | Schedule | Medal TallyBoth karatekas managed one Yuko every throughout the contest, however Chung had struck first and that proved decisive when the scores remained stage on the finish. Under karate’s Senshu rule, the athlete who scores the primary uncontested level is said the winner in a tied bout.Bhatt had reached the bronze medal playoff after a tough semifinal in opposition to Jordan’s Mohammad Aljafari. The Indian went down 0-8 to Aljafari, lacking out on a spot within the gold medal contest and having to accept a shot at bronze.However, Bhatt couldn’t convert that chance as Chung held his nerve in a carefully fought playoff. The slim defeat meant India missed out on one other medal in karate on the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games.Elsewhere, India’s Jay Meena picked up a notable win in gentle tennis, defeating Pakistan’s Arain Hussain of their Group D conflict. Jay produced a dominant 4-0 victory, profitable the 4 units 4-2, 4-0, 4-2, 4-0.India’s Aadhya Tiwari, in the meantime, suffered a 1-4 defeat to Thailand’s Alisha Ziegler within the girls’s singles competitors. Aadhya received the opening set 4-1 however Ziegler fought again to take the following 4 units 4-0, 4-0, 2-4, 4-6.With solely the group winners advancing to the quarterfinals, Aadhya’s qualification hopes now rely on her outcome in opposition to Pakistan’s Kainaat Shallwani and the result of Shallwani’s match in opposition to Ziegler.India additionally suffered one other setback in males’s sepaktakraw. The Indian group misplaced 0-2 to Malaysia of their second Group B contest, happening 9-15, 12-15. The defeat leaves India’s marketing campaign hanging by a thread, with the Philippines their remaining group-stage opponent on Wednesday.India had earlier misplaced their opening Group B match 1-2 to Japan on Monday.