India blank Japan 3-0 in squash

India hardly broke a sweat as they blanked Japan 3-0 in a men's team group B squash match with all the players registering straight-game wins at the Asian games here today.

Mahesh Mangaonkar gave India a winning start, thrashing Tsukue Shinnosuke 11-5 11-4 11-4, before Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu easily got the better of Takanori Shimizu 11-3 11-8 11-15 to take a 2-0 lead.

Fresh from his silver medal-winning effort in singles, world number 16 Saurav Ghosal was at ease as he posted a crushing 11-7 11-6 11-6 win over Yuta Fukui in the third game.