Lakshya Sen missed a bronze medal in badminton whereas Maheshwari Chauhan and Anant Jeet Singh Naruka fell quick within the skeet combined staff occasion in taking pictures. Wrestler Nisha Dahiya too was left in tears after an damage dashed her hopes within the girls’s freestyle class.
Sen, aiming to be India’s first male shuttler to win an Olympic medal, confronted a tricky matchup in opposition to Malaysia’s world no.7 Lee Zii Jia within the bronze playoff.Regardless of a powerful begin, Sen was unable to take care of his lead and misplaced the match 21-13, 16-21, 11-21 in a 71-minute contest.
“I had my possibilities within the second set and will have undoubtedly finished higher. However credit score to him, he performed a very good recreation. I believe in the meanwhile I am simply not in a position to assume proper,” a crestfallen Sen mentioned after the match.
“I got here properly ready for this match as properly. It has been fairly a tricky week total. However yeah, the fatigue stored on constructing. However I imply, I used to be prepared to present my 100 per cent on this match.”
In the meantime, on the taking pictures vary in Chateauroux, Maheshwari and Naruka narrowly missed out on a bronze medal within the skeet combined staff occasion. They completed fourth, dropping by a single level to China’s Yiting Jiang and Jianlin Lyu, who secured the bronze with a rating of 44 in opposition to the Indian duo’s 43.
Additional disappointment got here from the wrestling mat, the place Nisha confronted North Korea’s Pak Sol Gum within the girls’s 68 kg freestyle class. Main 8-1 with simply over 90 seconds left, Dahiya sustained a severe damage to her proper hand. The damage left her in agonizing ache, and she or he was unable to proceed successfully.
Following a medical break, Nisha’s proper hand misplaced energy, and Pak Sol Gum capitalized on the chance, scoring 9 straight factors. The bout ended with a rating of 8-10 in favor of the North Korean wrestler.
Nisha’s day led to tears as she was unable to take care of her early lead as a result of damage. With simply 10 seconds left, the rating was 8-8, however the end result was already clear as she struggled to carry on within the closing moments.
Girls’s TT staff advances to quarters
The ladies’s desk tennis staff of Manika Batra, Sreeja Akula and Archana Kamath triumphed over higher-ranked Romania to safe a spot within the quarterfinals.
India initially led 2-Zero however then Romania degree the match at 2-2. Manika then delivered decisively within the closing recreation.
Sreeja and Archana kicked off the proceedings with a win within the doubles match, defeating Adina Diaconu and Elizabeta Samara 11-9, 12-10, 11-7. Manika prolonged the lead with a convincing 11-5, 11-7, 11-7 victory over the higher-ranked Bernadette Szocs, giving India a cushty 2-Zero lead in opposition to their fourth-seeded opponents. India is seeded 11th within the competitors.
Within the second singles match, fortunes modified for India as Sreeja went down 2-3 (11-8, 4-11, 11-7, 6-11, 8-11) to European champion Samara after taking the primary recreation. The loss led to a face-off between Archana and Bernadette, the place the latter prevailed.
Manika then clinched the tie for India by defeating Adina 3-0 (11-5, 11-9, 11-9), sealing the staff’s spot within the quarterfinals.
India will subsequent face both the USA or Germany within the quarterfinals.
A primary in Indian males’s athletics
Avinash Sable created historical past by changing into the primary Indian man to qualify for the boys’s 3000m steeplechase closing on the Paris Olympics.
Sable completed fifth in his warmth with a timing of 8:15.43 minutes to qualify among the many prime 15 within the occasion.
In steeplechase, there are three heats and the highest 5 from every warmth qualify for the ultimate.
Sable’s warmth was gained by Moroccan Mohamed Tindouft with private finest timing of 8:10.62 minutes.
Hockey staff eyes first closing since 1980
The Indian hockey staff is poised getting ready to securing a second consecutive Olympic medal because it prepares to face reigning world champion Germany within the semifinals.
A win within the vital match will guarantee not less than a silver medal for India, an achievement final attained on the Rome Olympics in 1960.
India’s final Olympic gold in hockey got here on the 1980 Moscow Video games.
The staff can now discover itself on the rostrum as soon as once more, bettering on the bronze medal secured within the Tokyo version. The semis conflict in opposition to Germany guarantees excessive stakes and excessive drama.
India will miss the companies of key defender Amit Rohidas, who acquired a one-match suspension following a purple card for a harmful maneuver within the match in opposition to Britain.
Nevertheless, veteran goalkeeper PR Sreejesh has been pivotal in India’s advance, significantly together with his essential saves in the course of the penalty shoot-out in opposition to Britain.
Neeraj begins marketing campaign
Star Neeraj Chopra can be aiming for a historic second Olympic gold in javelin as he’ll start his marketing campaign on Tuesday with the qualification spherical, main as much as the finals on August 8.
Amid expectations of one other golden end, Chopra’s consistency can be examined this time, particularly as he battles a persistent adductor damage.
Chopra is about to make historical past if he secures the highest podium end, changing into the fifth man in Olympic historical past to defend his javelin title. He would even be the primary Indian to win two gold medals in a person occasion on the Olympics.
Solely 4 athletes have achieved this feat earlier than: Eric Lemming of Sweden in 1908 and 1912, Jonni Myyra of Finland in 1920 and 1924, Jan Zelezny of the Czech Republic in 1992, 1996, and 2000, and Andreas Thorkildsen of Norway in 2004 and 2008.
