In squash, the Indian men’s team defeated Pakistan and won the gold medal. For the first time since 2014, the Indian team has won this medal in the Asian Games. For India, 18 year old Abhay Singh performed brilliantly in the deciding final match and gave a brilliant performance in stressful conditions and won the gold medal for India. Abhay saved two match points before converting his first match to give team India the Gold. This is only the second gold medal for the Indian team in this sport at the Asian Games. Earlier in 2014, India had won gold by defeating Malaysia.
In the third match of the final, Abhay Singh won the gold medal for India by defeating Zaman Noor of Pakistan 11-7, 9-11, 7-11, 11-9, 12-10. Earlier, Saurav Ghoshal had defeated Muhammad Asim Khan in the match, while Mahesh Mangaonkar had to face defeat against Nasir Iqbal.