Badminton -
5pm - Sindhu will take on Bing Jiao He in the Bronze medal match up
Boxing -
9.36am Satish Kumar will take on Uzbek's Bhakodir Jalalov who is a former world champion... It's going to be tough for Satish
Equestrian
4.15am - Fouaad Mirza will be in action
Golf
4 am - Day 4 and final day of men's action. Anirban and Udayan will be in action
Hockey -
5.30 pm - Indian men will take on Great Britain in Men's Quarters
Medal possibilities - Can Sindhu defeat the Chinese shuttler ???
Archery
7:18 am - Atanu Das lost in the pre-quarters to Japan's Takaharu Furukawa 6-4
Athletics -
Kamalpreet Kaur qualified for Discus finals. Seemia didn't make it. Kamalpreet was one of the 2 automatic qualifiers
Men's Long Jump Qualification - M Shreeshankar was not in form and he was warned about it. He continued his poor form and jumped a best of 7.69 and didn't make it to finals.
Badminton -
Sindhu lost to Tai Tzu Ying in straight games. The first game was close till 18-18 but after that it was one way traffic.
Boxing -
Huge disappointment, to start the day. Amit Panghal lost in pre-quarters to Columbia's Herney Yuberjen Rivas Martinez in the men's Fly. He started ok in the first round but from second round Amit was literally running away from the Columbian boxer... Third round was just so sad to watch.. something went horribly wrong ... Either Amit was injured or he pressure got to him...
Pooja Rani lost to former World champion Li Qian in the quarters ... The Chinese boxer was in a different league and it was one way traffic...
Golf -
Anirban and Udayan are tied 28th and 55th end of day 3.
Hockey - Indian women beat South Africa in the Pool A match 4-3.
Sailing -
Ganapathy and Varun finished 16th, 9th and 14th in races 10, 11 and 12... They finished overall 17th in a field of 19
Shooting -
50m Rifle 3 position - Anjum Modgil and Tejaswini Sawant didn't qualify for the finals... Anjum was in top 8 after the prone and kneeling but dropped to 13th after standing... Tejaswini
Medal possibilities - Atanu Das could win our second Archery medal.
Archery
7:18 am - Atanu Das will be in the pre-quarters against Japan's Takaharu Furukawa. Quarters to finals happen back to back from 11:15 am till 1:45 pm.
Athletics -
6:00 am - Women's Discuss throw Qualification - Seema Punia and Kamalpreet Kaur will be in action
3:40 pm - Men's Long Jump Qualification - M Shreeshankar will be in action
Badminton -
around 3pm - Sindhu will take on Tai Tzu Ying in the semis
Boxing -
7:30 am - Amit Panghal will be in action for the first time in the pre-quarters against Columbia's Herney Yuberjen Rivas Martinez in the men's Fly
3:36 pm - Pooja Rani will take on former World champion Li Qian in the quarters
Golf -
5 am - Anirban and Udayan will be in action on the last day of Men's golf action
Hockey -
8:45 am - Indian women take on South Africa in the Pool A match. Another must win match for the Indian's.
Sailing -
8:35 am - Ganapathy and Varun will be in action in races 10, 11 and 12 in what would be their last day of action.
Shooting -
8:30 am - 50m Rifle 3 position - Qualification at 8:30 am and Finals at 12:30 pm - We have Anjum Modgil and Tejaswini Sawant in action
Medal possibilities - Atanu Das could win our first Archery medal. Can Pooja Rani stun another World Champion to ensure a second boxing medal?
Archery -
Archery -
Archery -
Tarundeep Rai defeated Kazakhstan's Oleksii Hunbin 6-4 in the round of 64 match. The veteran started slow in the first set but started hitting at least 1 - 10s in each of the following sets. He came back from being 1-3 down end of second set to win it 6-4. In the next round Tarundeep took on Israel's Itay Shanny and it was a very close match which went to the shoot off and the Israel archer shot a 10 and Rai shot a 9 to get knocked out in the round of 32 match.
Next up was Pravin Jadhav who took at Russia's World # 2 Galsan Bazarzhapov. Pravin was in very good form and Galsan shot a couple of 7s which costed him and Pravin won the match 6-0. In the next round Pravin took on America's World # 1 Brady Ellison. Brady was in very good form and Pravin shot a couple of 7s which cost him dear and was knocked out 6-0
Then came Deepika Kumari who is currently ranked # 1. She took on Bhutan's Karma and won in straight sets even though she was not shooting any high scores. In the next round Deepika took on America's Jennifer Mucino Fernandez. Deepika again was not in great form and she shot a 7 and 6 also but finally scrapped through to win the match 6-4.
Badminton
Sindhu took on Hong Kong's Ngan Yi Cheung in the second match in the group stage. She won the first game convincingly but in the second game the Hong Kong shuttler played really well before Sindhu could win the second game 21-16. She is through to the Pre-quarters and will take on Denmark's Mia Blichfeldt.
Sai Praneeth poor form continued in the second match in group stage against Netherlands Mark Caljouw. He was already out of contention to move forward before the match itself. Sai Praneeth lost in straight games.
Boxing -
Pooja Rani dind't have to break sweat against Algeria's Ichrak Chaib. Pooja won the bout by unanimous decision 5-0. Next up is the world Champion from China's Li Qian in the quarters for
Hockey -
Indian women lost the third match in row against Great Britain 4-1. We were down 1-0 in the second minute itself and it all went downhill from then. The next two matches are must win for the Indian women if they want to move to quarters.
Rowing -
Arjun and Arvind finished last in their semis. The Indian pair started strong and was 4th at the 500m mark and dropped to 5th by 1000m mark and dropped to last and just couldn't keep pace with the other rowers.
Sailing
Ganapathy and Varun finished 18th, 18th and 19th in the races 2, 3, 4 in 49er class in a field of 19.
Archery -
We will have 3 of our archers in action tomorrow.
7:31 am - Tarundeep Rai will be in action in first round against Oleksii Hunbin and if he wins that match his next round match will be at 8:10 am
12:30 pm - Pravin Jadhav will be in action in first round against Russia's Galsan Bazarzhapov and if he wins that match his next round match will be at 1:22 pm
2:14 pm - Deepika Kumari will be in action in first round against Bhutan's Karma and if she wins that match her next round match will be at 2:53 pm
Badminton
7:30 am - Sindhu will play her second match in the group stage against Hong Kong's Ngan Yi Cheung.
2:30 pm - Sai Praneeth will play his second match in the group stage against Netherlands Mark Caljouw
Boxing -
2:33 pm - Pooja Rani will be in action in the round of 16 match against Algeria's Ichrak Chaib
Hockey -
6:30 am - Indian women take on Great Britain in the Pool A match
Rowing -
8:00pm - Arjun and Arvind will be in the semis.
Sailing
8:35 am Ganapathy and Varun will be in action in the races 2, 3, 4 in 49er class
Medal possibilities - None
Badminton -
Satwik Rankireddy and Chirag defeated Britain's Ben Lane and Sean Vendy in straight games and finished with 2 wins. 3 teams had 2 wins each and since our team lost the in straight games and other 2 teams lost 1-2 we missed out on qualifying to quarters
Boxing -
Lovlina Borgohain defeated Germany's Narine Apetz to head to the quarters. It was a bit scrappy in the first round but Lovlina did enough in the second and held on to the lead in the third even though Apetz landed few good punches in the third round.
Hockey -
After the disastrous outing against Aussies, Indian defeated Spain 3-0. It was a pretty good performance defensively as Spain couldn't do much in our D.
Sailing -
After 6 races, Nethra Kumanan is placed overall 33rd in a field of 44. She finished 32nd and 39th in the 5th and 6th races today.
After 6 races, Vishnu Saravanan is placed overall 22nd in a field of 34. He finished 23rd, 22nd and 12th in the 4th, 5th and 6th races today.
Ganapathy and Varun finished 18 in a field of 19 in the first race. Their 2nd and 3rd races were postponed
Shooting -
It's complete disaster in shooting. Mixed team events were our definite shot at medals and today all 4 teams came shot. In the pistol event, Abhishek's poor run in the qualifying continued and Yashaswini also was not firing. Manu also was not at her peak and Saurabh was the only one in good form in the pistol event. Manu and Saurabh were first after the Qualification round 1 but shot poorly in round 2 and didn't progress to the medal matches. Abhishek and Yashaswini got knocked out in the qualification round 1 itself as they finished 17th in a field of 20
In the Rifle event the poor form of our shooters continued. Elavenil and Divyansh finished 12th and Anjum and Deepak finished 18th in the 29 team field and were knocked out in the first round itself.
There was much expected from our shooting contingent and it has been complete disaster so far.
Table Tennis - Sharath Kamal started off really well against China's world no 3 La Mong in the men's 3rd round match. It was close till the third game and end of it it was 2-1 for Mong. After that Mong stepped up a notch and Sharath couldn't match up in the 4th and 5th games. Sharath lost 4-1. With that our Table Tennis events comes to an end.
Badminton -
8:30 am - Rankireddy and Chirag will take on the Britain's Ben Lane and Sean Vendy in their last group match. They should win this and will make it to the quarters.
Boxing -
10:57 am - Lovlina Borgohain who got a first round bye will be in action in the round of 16 match at 10:57 am against Germany's Narine Apetz.
Hockey -
6:30 am - Indian men take on Spain in Pool A match at 6:30 am
Sailing -
We have all 4 of our sailors in actions.
8:35 am - Nethra Kumanan will be in action in races 5 and 6
9:35 am - Vishnu Saravanan will be in action in races 4, 5 and 6
11:20 am - Ganapathy and Varun will be in action in 49er in races 1, 2 and 3
Shooting - 10m Air Pistol mixed team and 10 m Air rifle mixed team - We have 2 team's each.
5:30 am - Pistol Qualification is at 5:30 am and Bronze medal match is at 7:30 am Gold medal match is at 8:07 am.
9:45 am - Rifle Qualification is at 9:45 am and Bronze medal match is at 11:45 am and Finals at 12:22 pm.
Table Tennis - Sharath Kamal is the only one left in the competition
8:30 am - Sharath will take on China's world no 3 La Mong in the men's 3rd round match. I think with that we will end our competition in Table Tennis
Medal possibilities - All 4 Teams in the Shooting mixed team events
Archery -
Indian men defeated Kazakhstan as expected 6-2 in the pre-quarters and in the quarters were defeated by Koreans 6-0.
Badminton -
Rankireddy and Chirag lost to the world no # 1 Indonesian team in their second group match. They should still fancy their chance in making the quarters.
Boxing - Ashish Kumar lost to China's Erbieke Touhita in an unanimous decision. He was the dark horse as per our coach. I felt the bout was much closer in the first 2 rounds but it was unanimously given to the Chinese.
Fencing -
Bhavani Devi made history by being the first Indian to qualify for the Olympics. In the round of 64 match against the Tunisian Nadia she won easily 15-3 and in the round of 32 she lost to world # 3 France's Manon Brunet 15-7.
Hockey - Indian women lost to Germany 2-0 Pool A match. India was down 1-0 at half time and missed a penalty stroke and immediately Germany doubled the score to 2-0 and there was nothing much we could do beyond that. Most of our forward press was going nowhere beyond the 23rd yard line.. Nothing in the D, we need to look at how to convert these forward presses to goals.
Sailing -
Vishnu finished 20th and 24th in the races 2 and 3
Nethra Kumanan finished 15th and 40th in races 3 and 4.
Shooting -
Mairaj shot a 117 and Angad shot a 120 and finished 25th and 18th respectively in the qualification
Swimming -
Sajan finished 4th in his 200m Butterfly heats. While I am happy with 2 Indians qualifying for the Olympics, what is disappointing is that both didn't swim their best. It's not that they swam their best time long back it is just few weeks ago when they did their PB and qualified for the Olympics.
Table Tennis -
Sharath Kamal defeated Portugal's Tiago Apolonia in the second round 4-2
Suhirtha lost to Portugal's Fu Yu in the second round in straight games. She was completely outclassed by Fu Yu
Manika Batra lost to Austria's Sofia Polnacova in the third round 4-0. Austrian is ranked 17th in the world and she showed her class in the game and Manika couldn't match up to the Austrian
Tennis - Sumit Nagal lost to world no 2 Daniil Medvedev in the second round match in straight sets.
Archery -
6am Men's teams event starts with pre-quarters at 6 am.
10:15am Quarters till finals happen back to back from till 1:30 pm.
India take on Kazakhstan in pre quarters and will face Korea in quarters if we win against Kazakhstan.
Badminton -
9:10 am Rankireddy and Chirag will take on the top seed Indonesian team
Boxing - Ashish Kumar will be in action in his round of 32 match at 3:06pm against China's Erbieke Touhita
Fencing -
5:30 am - Bhavani Devi in Women's sabre takes on Tunisia's Nadia Ben Azizi in the round of 64. All round till final happens on the same day back to back.
Round of 32 from 6:25 -8am
Round of 16 from 10:05 -10:55am
Hockey - Indian women take on Germany in Pool A match at 5:45 pm
Sailing -
8:35am Vishnu Saravanan has the second race at and third race in couple of hours
11:05am - Nethra Kumanan has her 3rd race
Shooting -
6:30am - Men's Trap day 2 Qualification - We have Mairaj and Angad in action and finals is at 12:20 pm.
Swimming -
3:59pm Sajan will be in action in the 200m Butterfly event heats at 3:59 pm
Table Tennis -
6:30 am- Sharath Kamal takes on Portugal's Tiago Apolonia in the second round
8:30 am - Suhirtha will take on Portugal's Fu Yu in the second round
1 pm - Manika Batra will take on Austria's Sofia Polnacova in the third round. Austrian is ranked 17th in the world
Tennis -
Around 10-10:30 am - Sumit Nagal will take on world no 2 Daniil Medvedev in the second round match
Medal possibilities - None for the day.
Archery - There was a change in the team as the management felt Pravin was shooting better than Atanu. They faced Chinese Taipei in the pre-quarters and they won that match 5-3. As mentioned yesterday, due to the poor performance of the men in the ranking round, our team ranking also got affected. We were against the eventual champions Korea in the quarters and we lost the match 6-2. We were completely outclassed by the Koreans.
Rowing - Arvind Lal and Arjun finished 5th in thr Men's Light weight double skulls heats. Given that their aim was to get a Top 12 finish, have to watch what they do in the Repachage round tomorrow. Their timing was the 10th best in the field.
Weightlifting - Mirabhai Chanu won the first medal for India and as expected got a silver. Once the Chinese liftedba olymoic record 94kg in the snatch and tookna 7 kg lead over Chanu, it was going to be an uphill task for Chanu. Happy that she put to rest the misery of Rio 2016 where she didnt have even a single clean and jerk lift which caused her to miss out on a medal.
Shooting - Elavenil and Apurvi both got knocked out in the qualification round itself. Elavenil finished 16th and Apurvi 36th. Around the 4th series Elavenil was as high at 11th but didn't finish well. Apurvi was down in mid 20s most of the time and finished a poor 36th. In the Air pistol event both Saurabh and Abhishek started poorly in the first round. Saurabh started shooting better from 2nd round and finished on top in the qualifiers. Abhishek started shooting better from the 3rd round. He was in top 5 till the last 3 shots and shot couple of 8s and that ruined his changes of making the finals and he ended up 17th. In the finals Saurabh starred very poorly and that ruined his changes. He was 8th at the end of first 10 shots but finished 7th and was the second to be knocked out in the finals. Overall a disappointing performance from our shooters today.
Badminton - Sai Praneeth continued his recent poor form and lost to Israel's Misha Zilbermann tamely in straight sets ruining his changes of progressing beyond group stage. The surprise result was the doubles team of Rankireddy and Chirag beating the third seed Chinese Taipei Team in a hard fought match in 3 games.
Hockey - Indian men started off their campaign with a victory over New Zealand. New zealand had an early lead and India came back to lead 3-1 before conceding a goal in the 4th quarter. The Indian women played beautifully against the strong Dutch till mid of third quarter holding them 1-1 before losing 5-1.
Judo - Shushila Likmabam lost to Hungary's Eva CSERNOVICZKI in her round of 32 match and ended her campaign.
Table Tennis - Sharath Kamal and Manika Batra lost to the 3rd Seeded Chinese Taipei Team in straight games. The Taipei team was way too strong for the Indian pair.
Manika Batra defeated British HO Tin-Tin in straight games. Even though Manika gave 4-5 point lead in 3rd and 4th games she was strong for the Britisher.
Suhirtha defeated Sweden's Linda Bergstroem 4-3. The match was going back and forth till the last game where Suhirtha came out on top.
Tennis - Sumit Nagal defeated Denis Istomin in 3
Boxing - Vikas was defeated by Japan's Sewonrets Quincy Mensah OKAZAWA in an unanimous decision 5-0. Vikas was completely out played by the Japanese boxer. Vikas had no clue against the Japanese boxer. I was personally expecting much from the experienced Vikas but he lost tamely.
Archery - Mixed Team Deepika Kumari and Atanu Das will be in action. The Pre-Quarters are at 6am where they take on the Chinese Taipei Team. Quarters to Finals happen back to back from 10:45 am to around 1:30 pm. India will face Korea if we get to the Quarters. Men ranking so low after the individual rankings round has impacted the team rankings along with their individual rankings. Men's team will also face the mighty Koreans in Quarters if they win their first round match against Kazakhstan
Rowing - We have Arvind Lal and Arjun Singh who will be participating in the Men's Light weight double skulls category. They are in Heat 2 and will be around 7:30 am.
Weightlifting - Mirabhai Chanu will be in action in the 49kg category. There contestants are segregated into two groups A and B. The top contenders will be in Group A which starts around 10:20 am. Group B happens at 6:20 am. Mirabhai is in Group A.
Shooting - We have 10m women's Air Rifle Qualification at 5 am and finals at 7:15 am - Elavenil and Apurvi will be in action. The 10m Air pistol qualification is at 9:30 am and Finals at 12 noon - Saurabh Chaudhary and Abhishek Verma will be in action
Badminton - Group stage matches - Men's Doubles Satwik and Chirag will be in action at around 8:50 am and Sai Praneeth will be in action at around 9:30 am
Hockey - Indian men take on New Zealand at 6:30 am in pool A match and Women take on Netherlands at 5:15 pm in pool A match.
Judo - Shushila Likmabam will be in action in the women's 48kg category. Action starts at 7:30. All events up to Gold medal match will be completed on 24th itself. The afternoon sessions start at 1:30 pm. She will be taking on Hungary's Eva CSERNOVICZKI in her round of 32 match.
Table Tennis - We have the Pre-Quarters for the mixed event - Sharath Kamal and Manika Batra will be in action against 3rd Seeded Chinese Taipei Team at around 8:30 am. Manika Batra will also be in action in Singles against British HO Tin-Tin(ranked lower than Manika and Manika is 2-0 in head to head) at around 12:15 pm and Suhirtha will take on Sweden's Linda Bergstroem (ranked higher than Suhirtha and it's a 1-1 in head to head) at around 1 pm. Sharath and Sathyan have got first round bye.
Tennis - Sumit Nagal (who was a last minute addition) Denis Istomin (WR 197) at around 9am
Boxing - Vikas Krishan will be in action at around 3:50 pm in his round of 32 match against Japan's Sewonrets Quincy Mensah OKAZAWA. Amit Panghal, Satish Kumar, Simranjeet & Lovlina Borgohain have all received first round byes and are directly into round of 16
Medal Prospects - Mira Bhai Chanu in weightlifting, All 4 shooters, Archery Mixed team(which has become doubtful post the individual ranking rounds)
Day 1 action begins for the Indians before the official opening ceremony. We have 4 Indians in Action.
Archery - We have both women and men Individual Ranking rounds (where the athletes shoot 72 arrows). This decides the ranking for both Individual, Mixed Team and Men's team events. Women's rounds start at 5:30 am and Men's at 9:30 am. We have Deepika Kumari in women's and Atanu Das, Tarundeep Rai, Pravin Jadhav in men's
Medal possibilities - None as it's only ranking round
This is the final part of the series on what to expect from our athletes at Tokyo 2020. We will cover Wrestling, Table Tennis, Tennis, Field Hockey and Shooting
Let us start with our National Sport (or is it not our national sport???) Field Hockey. The men's team should go into the Olympics as one of the favorites. They have a tough group with Australia, Spain, Argentina and New Zealand but should ideally finish 1st or 2nd in the group. I am hoping we will make it to the finals and will definitely win a medal after a long gap. Women's team will make it to Quarters and anything beyond that would be a bonus. Medals expected - 1
Tennis - There are chances that we might have an entry in Men's doubles and Mixed doubles also as there are many athletes pulling out. Ankita and Saina may win a match or two and that's about it. Even if Rohan get's a chance to pair up with Saina in the mixed doubles don't think they can win a medal. Medals expected - 0
Table Tennis - We might have an outside chance of winning a medal in the mixed doubles event where there are 16 teams and if the draw is good we should fancy our chances of making it to the medals round. Singles both men and women would not have much chance of making it beyond couple of rounds. Medals expected - 0 (best case would be Mixed doubles team winning a surprise medal)
Wrestling
Bajrang Punia and Vinesh Phogat are definite favorites to win a medal. Vinesh was unlucky in Rio with her injury and she was on fire till her injury. She should be raring to win gold this time. She is the No 1 seed. Bajrang and Deepak Punia are both ranked seeded no 2 and Ravi Kumar is seeded 4th in their respective categories. Deepak and Ravi could also surprise us if they get a good draw. As mentioned about boxing, a lot depends on the draw. The other 3 women(Seema Bisla, Anshu & Sonam Malik) might not go beyond the initial rounds. Medals expected - 2 (best case scenario 4)
Shooting
Men's Skeet - Indians generally excel in Rifle and Pistol events and shotgun events are not something we are good at(I know Rathore won silver in doulbe trap in 2004 Athens but beyond that nothing much to write about). Don't think Mairaj or Angad will have any chance of winning a medal.
Men's 10m Air Pistol - Saurabh Chaudhary(world # 2) and Abhishek Verma(world # 1) should both fancy their chances of winning a medal. I am expecting both of them to make it to the finals and at least one of them winning a medal.
Men's 10m Air Rifle - This is an event were we have won 2 medals so far - Gold by Abhinav and Bronze by Gagan. Divyansh Parmar is currently ranked # 2 in the world and Deepak is 11th. One of them can win a medal.
Men's 50m Rifle 3 position - Aishwary Tomar is ranked # 2 and Sanjeev # 6 in the world. Sanjeev has been representing India in the Summer Olympics since Beijing 2008. Will be happy if they make it to the finals.
Women's 10m Air Pistol - Manu Bhaker has not been in great form in recent events and currently ranked 2nd in the world and we also have Yashaswini Deswal who is currently ranked world # 1 in the event. One of them might win a medal.
Women's 25m Pistol - Rahi Sarnobat has been good form in comparison to Manu and Rahi is World # 1 and Manu # 7 in this event. I strongly feel one of them will win a medal.
Women's 10m Air Rifle - Elavenil is world # 1 and Apurvi is # 11th. I strongly feel Elavenil will win a medal, she has the talent to win a gold.
Women's 50m Rifle 3 position - Anjum and Tejaswini and ranked 27th and 28th in this event and don't think they will make it to finals.
The best thing about this Olympics is the push for more mixed team events which will definitely help us to win more medals especially in Shooting and Archery.
Mixed 10m Air Rifle - Deepak Kumar & Anjum, Divyansh & Elavenil should fancy their chances of winning medal. It will be great if we can win 2 medals in one event. We should definitely win a medal.
Mixed 10m Air Pistol - Saurabh & Manu, Abishek & Yashaswini are competing and both teams are very strong. We should definitely win a medal.
We should ideally win at least 5 medals (1 men, 2 women and 2 team should win medal) and best case scenario should be 4-5 medals more.
Overall Medal Predicted - 14 and best case scenario is 24
|
Sport |
Medals
Expected |
Best
case scenario |
|
Athletics |
1 |
1 |
|
Archery |
2 |
2 |
|
Boxing |
2 |
5 |
|
Badminton |
0 |
0 |
|
Equestrian |
0 |
0 |
|
Fencing |
0 |
0 |
|
Field
Hockey |
1 |
1 |
|
Golf |
0 |
0 |
|
Gymnastics |
0 |
0 |
|
Judo |
0 |
0 |
|
Rowing |
0 |
0 |
|
Sailing |
0 |
0 |
|
Shooting |
5 |
10 |
|
Swimming |
0 |
0 |
|
Table
Tennis |
0 |
0 |
|
Tennis |
0 |
0 |
|
Weightlifting |
1 |
1 |
|
Wrestling |
2 |
4 |
|
Total |
14 |
24 |
