Nagoya, India suffered a double setback in the fencing events at the Asian Games on Friday, with both the men’s foil and women’s epee teams knocked out in the round of 16.
In the men’s event, the score after the first relay was 2-5, with Sachin scoring two touches against Choi Chun Yin Ryan’s five. Sachin added one touch in the fourth relay, while Ho scored five as Hong Kong moved 20-12 ahead. The fifth relay saw Aditya score one and Choi add five, taking the score to 25-13 Aditya scored three in the seventh relay, but Ho again scored five, leaving Hong Kong 35-17 ahead. In team event, three fencers compete in nine relay bouts, with the target score rising from 5 to 45.
The men’s foil team suffered a 27-45 defeat to Hong Kong, while the women’s épée side went down 29-45 to Uzbekistan. However, the Indian women’s team of Taniksha Khatri, Yashkeerat Kaur Hayer and Mitva Jesangbhai Chaudhari stayed within striking distance at 14-17 after relay four but they struggled to keep pace as Uzbekistan pulled away from the fifth relay to seal the win. The match consists of nine bouts and the scores are carried forward from one bout to the next, and the first team to reach 45 touches wins.
