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Tokyo Olympics tennis: Djokovic starts campaign with a win
Daniil Medvedev, representing the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) team since Russia is banned, also won his first-round match against Alexander Bublik of Kazakhstan 6-4, 7-6(8). Medvedev will now face India’s Sumit Nagal in the second round. Nagal had beaten Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan 6-4, 6-7(6), 6-4. Among other winners in men’s section were Italian Lorenzo Sonego.
Tokyo Olympics Table Tennis: Manika Batra through to second round
Following the 4-0 win, Manika will now face Ukraine's 20th seed Margaryta Pesotska. Manika had a slow start against Tin-Tin, ranked 94th in the world. But she found her rhythm quickly to take the first game 11-7. Manika had a smooth run for a 2-0 lead by winning the second game 11-6. After trailing the paddler from Great Britain for much of the third game.
Tokyo Olympics Badminton: Shetty-Rankireddy hold nerve to win; Sai Praneeth loses
However, India's hope in men's singles, B Sai Praneeth suffered a shock loss against Misha Zilberman of Israel in his first Groupd D match. The Indian pair won the first game before the Chinese Taipei duo bounced back in the second game. The final game was closely fought till the end as the Indians ensured they wouldn't give in. The Chinese Taipei pair seemed to have moved into a decisive lead at 16-13. But Chirag and Satwik refused to budge.
Tokyo Olympics: Saurabh Chaudhary flatters to deceive, finishes 7th in 10m air pistol
The 19-year-old Chaudhary, who had given enough indication that he was in great form to finish on the podium when he shot 586 to go into the finals as the leader, was the second shooter to be eliminated from among the eight finalists, finishing seventh. Chaudhary got things rolling with a 10.1 in the finals, but he finished at the bottom of the pile after the first five shots with a score of 47.7.
Tokyo Olympics Tennis: Sumit Nagal beats Istomin to record India's first tennis singles win since 1996
Nagal's win was the first for an Indian men's singles tennis player at the Olympics since Leander Paes' bronze medal-winning run at Atlanta 1996. Nagal won the first set 6-4 in 42 minutes but lost the second set in tie-breaker in 71 minutes. He, however, came back to win the final set in 41 minutes with a 6-4 margin. The 34-year-old Istomin, ranked 197th in the world was no match to his 23-year-old Indian opponent who is ranked 37 places above him.
Tokyo Olympics Archery: India crash out in mixed team quarterfinals
Although the Koreans won three sets to India's one, all of them were closely contested. South Korea, comprising An San and Kim Je Deok, won the first two sets -- 35-32, 38-37 - before the Indian pair bounced back winning the third 37-35. The Koreans then sealed the final set 36-33 with the Indians struggling to get a decent score in their four shots.
Tokyo Olympics: Saurabh Chaudhary qualifies for the final of 10m air pistol
The Meerut boy shot 586 to be tied with Chinese Bowen Zhang after qualification, but as the Indian had more 'inner 10s' (27) to his name, he took the first spot foing into the finals. The other Indian in the fray, Abhishek Verma, was in the reckoning for a place in the finals. But he shot two 9s followed by two 8s in his last four shots, which meant that he finished 17th with a score of 575.
Tokyo Olympics Weightlifting: Mirabai Chanu wins historic silver medal at Tokyo Olympics
Mirabai, ranked third in the world, had a total lift of 202kg with 87kg in snatch and 115kg in clean and jerk. This is India's second medal in the sport after Karnam Malleswari's bronze in the 69kg category at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Hou Zhihui of China won the gold medal, setting a new Olympic record of 210kg. She set the record too in snatch with 94kg and 116kg in clean and jerk.
Tokyo Olympics Hockey: Harmanpreet brace, Sreejesh heroics help India beat New Zealand 3-2
India conceded an early goal when Kane Russel scored a penalty corner in the sixth minute. They levelled the scores four minutes later when they earned a penalty stroke off their second penalty corner. Rupinderpal Singh, who struck the crossbar in the fourth minute off India's first penalty corner, did not make any mistake and put the ball past New Zealand goalkeeper Leon Hayward.
Olympic archery: Deepika Kumari, Pravin Jadhav in mixed team quarterfinals
The pair rallied to overcome the Chinese Taipei pair of Lin Chia-En and Tang Chin-Chun 5-3 in the opening elimination round and will take on the winners of the match between the top-seeded South Koreans and Bangladesh. The opening set went in favour of the archers from Chinese Taipei 36-35 as Jadhav had two poor shots of eight. However, the Indians came back strongly in the second set with 38 in their four shots.
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