Overview
- India’s tally rose to eight finalists after Tuesday wins by Meenakshi Hooda, Jaismine Lamboria, Vishvanath Suresh and Sachin Siwach in Ulaanbaatar.
- Preeti Pawar reached the 54 kg final with a 5-0 win over Korea’s Aeji Im and now meets three-time world champion Huang Hsiao-wen of Chinese Taipei.
- Priya advanced 5-0 at 60 kg to face North Korea’s Un Gyong Won, while Arundhati Choudhary won 4-1 at 70 kg to set up a final with Kazakhstan’s Bakyt Seidish.
- In the men’s draw, Vishvanath Suresh (50 kg) won 5-0 against Jordan’s Huthaifa Eshish and Sachin (60 kg) prevailed 4-1 over Thailand’s Sakda Ruamtham to reach their finals.
- Veterans Nikhat Zareen (51 kg) and Lovlina Borgohain (75 kg) lost their semifinals 0-5 to China’s Wu Yu and Uzbekistan’s Aziza Zokirova, and Ankushita Boro’s 65 kg loss to Nien-Chin Chen followed a power outage that led officials to decide the result on points.