India beat New Zealand 3-2 in Pool A, thanks to some Sreejesh heroics.Īrjun Lal and Arvind Singh qualified for the repechage round after their fifth-place finish in the six-team field meant they missed out on the semifinals. Earlier, the pair had recorded an impressive win over Chinese Taipei's Lin Chia-En and Tang Chih-Chun, coming back from 0-2 down to win the match 5-3. Sutirtha Mukherjee also advanced to the second round after fighting back to win the last three games to defeat Sweden's Linda Bergstroem 5-11, 11-9, 11-13, 9-11, 11-3, 11-9, 11-5.īatra, however, lost 8-11, 6-11, 5-11, 4-11 in the mixed doubles first round with her partner A Sharath Kamal to Chinese Taipei's Lin Yun Ju and Cheng I Ching.ĭeepika Kumari-Pravin Jadhav lost 2-6 to South Korea's An San and Kim Je Deok in the quarterfinals. Manika Batra entered the second round of the women's singles with a 11-7, 11-6, 12-10, 11-9 win over Great Britain's Ho Tin-Tin. 'Emotional' Nagal lands 'super tough' win in 'terrible weather' He faces world no.2 two Daniil Medvedev next. Sumit Nagal became only the third Indian to win a men's singles match at the Olympics Games and the first in 25 years, defeating Asian Games champion Denis Istomin 6-4 6-7(6) 6-4 in two hours and 34 minutes. Sai Praneeth lost 17-21, 15-21 to Misha Zilberman (Israel). 3 ranked pair of Lee Yang and Wang Chi-Lin 21-16, 16-21, 27-25 in a pulsating contest.ī. Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty played a sensational match on Olympic debut, defeating the world no. 1 Elavenil Valarivan and world record holder Apurvi Chandela missed out on making the final after finishing 16th and 36th, respectively, in qualification. Chaudhary missed out on a medal though, finishing 7th in the final. Abhishek Verma missed out on the final, finishing 17th with a score of 575. Saurabh Chaudhary lived up to his pre-tournament favourite billing in the 10m air pistol event by topping the qualification round with a score of 586. 'I was nervous as I knew the country was watching' Mirabai's redemption arc, five years in the making Mirabai Chanu opened India's medal count by winning silver in the 49kg women's weightlifting. While Saurabh Chaudhary had a disappointing outing in the 10m air pistol final, there were encouraging results elsewhere, notably from Sumit Nagal in tennis and the pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty in badminton men's doubles. Mirabai Chanu opened India's medal count at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics on Jby winning silver in the women's 49kg weightlifting.
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