India at Tokyo 2020 - Our Performance on day 4 - 26-July

 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.