India at Tokyo 2020 - Our Performance on Day 6 28th July 2021

 

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.