The highest seeds defend their Asian Video games squash titles, changing into the primary gamers to qualify for the Los Angeles Video games.
Printed On 27 Sep 2026
Malaysia’s Eain Yow Ng and Sivasangari Subramaniam have made historical past by changing into the primary squash gamers to qualify for the Summer season Olympics after successful gold medals on the Asian Video games in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan.
The defending champions gained the boys’s and girls’s finals on Sunday and earned a ticket to the 2028 Los Angeles Video games, the place squash will make its Olympic debut.
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Squash is amongst a handful of sports activities at Aichi-Nagoya the place a gold medal serves as computerized qualification for the subsequent Olympics.
Each Eain and Sivasangari efficiently defended their titles with out dropping a single recreation of their campaigns. Their victories gave Malaysia its fifth and sixth gold medals.
World quantity 18 Eain thrashed India’s Abhay Singh 11-9, 11-5, 11-5 in 33 minutes on the Nagoya Kinjo Futo Enviornment and have become the primary Malaysian to qualify for the Olympics.
World quantity 5 Sivasangari joined her compatriot quickly after when she made fast work of the ladies’s ultimate in opposition to India’s Anahat Singh.
She demolished Singh, ranked seventeenth on this planet, 11-4, 11-4, 11-7 in simply 23 minutes to clinch gold.
Earlier, Singh, the world junior champion, produced a stellar comeback within the semifinals from two units right down to overpower Japan’s Satomi Watanabe (11th of September, 11-13, 12-10, 11-6, 11-3) on Saturday.
“I believe it’s the finest win of my profession,” Singh, 18, mentioned after the match. “She’s quantity six on this planet, and that’s the very best win I’ve ever had in my squash profession.”
She made historical past even earlier than Sunday’s match started when her semifinal victory made her the primary Indian lady to achieve the singles ultimate on the Asian Video games.
Earlier within the day, Pakistan picked up two extra bronze medals on the video games as third seed Noor Zaman toppled compatriot Ashab Irfan 3-0 within the bronze medal match. Watanabe took a 3-1 win over Hong Kong’s Sin Yuk Chan.
