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Indian boxing duo of Sachin Siwach (49kg) and Devanshu Jaiswal (81kg) reached the quarter-finals of their respective categories in the President’s Cup in Kazakhstan. Siwach edged past local favorite O Bayniyazov 3-2 in his match while Jaiswal defeated Belarus’ Pavel Brazovskiy to progress further.

Mary Kom, who won gold at previous Asian games, has withdrawn from this year’s Asian Games at Jakarta to prepare for the World Championship later this year. Women team coach, Raffaele Bergamasco, believes it would not be in her best interest to go up from 48kg to 51kg category at this stage.

Indian national boxers’ training in the USA doesn’t seem to be happening, owing to their visa applications, which has been rejected for the second time now. This would have been the first training camp in the United States for Indian boxers, who mostly had their training camps in Europe and Cuba.

A successful outing at the CWG means silver medalist boxer Amit Panghal will aim to outdo himself at the 2018 Asian games that would be held in Jakarta later this year. Panghal went up against England's Galal Yafai in the men's light flyweight (49kg) final only to miss out on gold in Australia.