"Suddenly everyone talking about teqball was too much to take on our chest": Quimcy Dsouza on her Asian Games campaign
Aichi-Nagoya, Sept. 20 -- India's teqball campaign at the 2026 Asian Games ended without a medal on Sunday after Quimcy Dsouza fell short in two bronze-medal contests, with the Indian athlete admitting that the pressure of competing on an unfamiliar continental stage impacted her.
Dsouza first suffered a narrow 2-0 (12-11, 12-11) defeat to Japan's Yuina Sakamoto in the women's singles bronze-medal match. She returned later alongside Mohamed Anas Imran Beg for the mixed doubles bronze-medal playoff, but the Indian pair fell 0-2 (12-9, 12-6) to Vietnam's Hoang Minh Tan Nguyen and Gia Nghi Trinh.
"To experience such pressure for the first time was where I fell back a little bit," Dsouza told Olympics.com.
"We're not used to the pressure b...
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