Sunday, July 29, 2012

Olympics News
At London Olympics 2012, England

Archery - Women's Recurve Team
[PQF] India l Denmark 210-211

Rowing
Men's Single Sculls - Repechages 1
1 Sawarn Singh 7:00.49

Men's Lightweight Double Sculls - Heat 1
4 Sandeep Kumar (IND)/ Manjeet Singh (IND) 6:56.60

Shooting - Women's 10m Air Pistol
12 Heena Sidhu (IND) (93 97 97 95) 382 pts
23 Annu Raj Singh (IND) (94 96 97 91) 378 pts

Table Tennis - Men's Singles
[R2] Soumyajit Ghosh (IND) l Hyok Bong Kim (PRK) 1-4 (11-9 6-11 5-11 9-11 7-11))

Badminton
Mixed Doubles - Group C
Diju V (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) l Thomas Laybourn (DEN)/ Kamilla Rytter Juhl (DEN) 12-21 16-21

Women's Singles - Group E
(4) Saina Nehwal (IND,5) bt Sabrina Jaquet (SUI,65) 21-9 21-4

Boxing - Men's Light (60kg)
[R1] Jai Bhagwan (IND) bt Andrique Allisop (SEY) 18-8

[R2] Jai Bhagwan (IND) vs Gani Zhailauov (KAZ)

Tennis
Men's singles
[R1] (WC) Somdev Devvarman (IND,418) l Jarkko Nieminen (FIN,41) 36 16

Our poor performance in archery continued ... Today our Women's Recurve Team struggled and lost by Danish team by 1 point ... We managed decent score in the final round but lead which Danish team take after two rounds was enough for them to upset higher ranked Indian women.

Sawarn Singh won the Repechages first heat and qualified for the quarter final after failing yesterday ... Sandeep Kumar and Manjeet Singh finished on 4th position in 1st heat of Men's Lightweight Double Sculls ... Now they will participate in Repechages.

Heena Sidhu's first bad round cost her place in the final in Women's 10m Air Pistol event ... She finished on 12th position missing final by 3 points ... Annu Raj Singh had poor last round which put her on 23rd position.

In his second round Soumyajit Ghosh started positively against his higer ranked North Korean opponent but after winning the first game he failed to overcome challenge from Kim ... Still encouraging performance by teenager.

Saina scored very dominating win over her Swiss opponent in 22 minutes ... After winning the first game in 12 minutes Saina overpowered Jaquet in the second game to win it in 10 minutes ... But Jwala and Diju lost their second match of the group against Danish WR #8 pair ... With this loss their chances of moving to knockout stage r almost zero.

Jai Bhagwan scored good win over young Seychelles boxer ... Jai won all three rounds with 7-3, 7-3 and 4-2 ... Next he is facing Kazakh boxer Gani Zhailauov.

Jarkko Nieminen dominated from the start and Sommy struggled on the grass ... After winning the first set Nieminen broke Sommy in 1st game of the second and Nieminen kept that tone to broke couple of time to win it comfortably ... Vishnu Vardhan received lucky break and he is playing in men's singles as alternate due to withdrawal against Blaz Kavcic.

Table Tennis News

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