Olympics News
At London Olympics 2012, England
Archery
Men's Recurve Individual
[R1] Jayanta Talukdar (IND,19) l Jacob Wukie (USA,49) 0-6 (22-27 26-30 28-29)
[R1] Rahul Banerjee (IND,54) bt Jantsan Gantugs (MON,33) 6-0 (29-27 25-24 30-25)
[R1] Tarundeep Rai (IND,18) bt Juan Carlos Stevens (CUB,48) 6-5 (27-28 27-27 27-28 28-27 27-26) (in shoot-off Tarundeep won 9-8)
[R2] Rahul Banerjee (IND,54) l Rafal Dobrowolski (POL,104) 3-7 (28-28 25-27 29-26 26-29 25-26)
[R2] Tarundeep Rai (IND,18) l Bubmin Kim (KOR,21) 2-6 (26-27 28-30 28-25 26-28)
Women's Recurve Individual
[R1] Chekrovolu Swuro (IND,46) l Jennifer Nichols (USA,15) 5-6 (27-24 25-27 25-25 29-26 25-28) (shoot-off 9-9 but Jennifer's shot was closest)
Badminton
Men's Singles - Group D
Kashyap Parupalli (IND,21) bt (10) Nguyen Tien Minh (VIE,11) 21-9 21-14
[PQF] Kashyap Parupalli (IND,21) vs Niluka Karunaratne (SRI,48)
Mixed Doubles - Group C
Viju D (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) l Lee Yong Dae (KOR)/ Ha Jung Eun (KOR) 15-21 15-21
Women's Doubles - Group B
Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) bt Shinta Sari Mulia (SIN)/ Yao Lei (SIN) 21-16 21-15
Boxing
Men's Light Fly (49kg)
[R1] Devendro Singh Laishram (IND) bt Bayron Molina Figueroa (HON) RSC (2:24 R1)
[R2] Devendro Singh Laishram (IND) vs Serdamba Purevdorj (MGL)
Men's Light Welter (64kg)
[R1] Manoj Kumar (IND) bt Serdar Hudayberdiyev (TRK) 13-7
[R2] Manoj Kumar (IND) vs Thomas Stalker (GBR)
Judo - Women's - 63kg
[R1] Garima Chaudhary (IND) l Yoshie Ueno (JPN) 000-100 (1:21 Ippon)
Rowing
Men's Single Sculls - Quarter Final 3
4 Sawarn Singh (IND) 7:11.59
Men's Lightweight Double Sculls - Repechage 2
6 Sandeep Kumar (IND)/ Manjeet Singh (IND) 6:54.20
Tennis
Men's doubles
[R2] (7) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) l Julien Benneteau (FRA)/ Richard Gasquet (FRA) 36 46
Weightlifting - Men's 69kg - Group B
6 Ravi Kumar Katulu (IND) (136 + 167) 303 kgs
In men's singles terrific confident win by Kashyap against WR #11 Nguyen Tien Minh ... Kashyap defeated his Vietnamese opponent in 35 minutes dominating both games ... In pre-quarter final he is facing Sri Lankan Niluka Karunaratne.
Jwala and Diju ended their campaign with another loss ... So 0-3 win-loss record for them in this Olympics against their top 10 opponents ... But disappointing performance considering they failed to win a single game in three matches ... Jwala is still having chance in women's doubles to qualify for quarter-final with Ashwini.
Jwala and Ashwini scored straight games victory over higher ranked Singaporean pair ... After winning the first game after controlling from the start our pair was leading 9-0 and 11-1 in the second but after that they made numerous errors mainly by Jwala near the net ... Singaporean pair tried hard but difference was too much for them in the end ... Despite victory our pair mostly missing the place in quarter final on tie-break as they needed victory with 13 points difference but they managed to win by 11 points difference.
American archer Jacob Wukie produced perfect arrows hitting to beat Jayanta comfortably ... Chekrovolu Swuro missed chance as on the final arrow she required 9 point arrow to win this match but she managed only 6 ... In shoot-off both archers hit 9 points but American Jennifer Nichols arrow was closest.
Rahul Banerjee scored comfortable one-sided victory over Jantsan Gantugs in three straight sets ... But in the second round Rahul failed to produce consistent performance against Polish Rafal Dobrowolski ... In the first set both scored 28 ... Then in the second set Rahul's performance dip and Rafal take advantage to win it ... In the third set Rahul scored 29 to win it ... In the fourth Rafal scored 29 points and Rahul struggled ... In the fifth Rafal managed only 26 but Rahul scored only 25 to lose the set and match.
After poor performance by other archers Tarundeep Rai started on the back-foot ... After three sets he was down 1-5 but he fought back to win next 2 sets and take match into shoot-off ... In shoot-off Tarundeep hit 9 and Juan managed only 8 ... In pre-quarter final Tarundeep faced 2nd seed Korean Bubmin Kim ... In the first set Tarundeep was leading 18-17 after 2 arrows ... Kim scored 10 on the last and Tarundeep managed only 8 to lose this set ... Tarundeep never recovered from this lost opportunity ... In the second set Tarundeep scored 10, 9, 9 but Kim scored perfect 10 on all 3 arrows to win it ... Tarundeep won the third set when little lapse of concentration from Kim ... In the fourth Tarundeep managed 8, 8 in first 2 arrows but Kim managed again perfect 10 in his first 2 shots ... Tarundeep scored 10 on last arrow but 4 points deficit was far big as Kim scored 8 on the final arrow to win this match.
Japanese Yoshie Ueno easily defeated Garima Chaudhary by ippon in 1 minute 21 seconds with Kuzure-Kesa-Gatame hold.
Sawarn Singh finished on 4th position with 7:11.59 in Men's Single Sculls quarter final ... Conditions must be tough as all rowers struggled ... Only 10 rowers from 24 rowers managed to clocked below 7 minutes time with best time was from British rower, 6:52.10 ... Top 3 rowers were going to qualify for semis so Sawarn Singh missed that but he will participate in Semifinal C/D for 13 to 24 positions.
Sandeep Kumar and Manjeet Singh ended last in Repechage 2 with 6:54.20 ... They will participate in final rankings semifinal C/D.
In weightlifting, Ravi Kumar Katulu finished with disappointing (136 + 167) 303 kgs total lift in Men's 69kg - Group B.
Devendro Singh scored very dominating win against Honduras boxer Bayron Molina Figueroa when refree stopped contest when 36 seconds were remaining of the first round ... Devendro Singh was attacking from the start ... Figueroa needed 2 standing count-down before refree stopped this one-sided bout ... Next he is facing experienced Mongolian boxer Serdamba Purevdorj, who is silver medalist from Beijing Olympics and he also won World championship in 2009 and bronze medal in 2011.
Manoj Kumar also scored convincing victory over Turkmenistan boxer ... In the first round both boxers played cautiously and the round ended 2-all ... In the second round Manoj Kumar was aggressive and won this round comfortably 7-3 ... After taking lead Manoj Kumar played the final round without taking much risk but still won it 4-2 ... Next he is having tough match against local boxer, Thomas Stalker
Shocking loss for our 7th seed pairing of Mahesh and Rohan against tricky French pair ... In the first set our pair wasted 5 break points and other hand French pair converted one from one to win it ... In the second set our pair broke early to lead 2-0 but French pair immediately broke back and then take important break in 9th game and then hold their serve to win this set (match).
Worst possible draw for Sania and Lee in mixed doubles ... They r in top draw, in the first round they r facing Serbian pair of Nenad Zimonjic and Ana Ivanovic ... And if they win this then they will face top-seed Max Mirnyi and Victoria Azarenka.
At London Olympics 2012, England
Archery
Men's Recurve Individual
[R1] Jayanta Talukdar (IND,19) l Jacob Wukie (USA,49) 0-6 (22-27 26-30 28-29)
[R1] Rahul Banerjee (IND,54) bt Jantsan Gantugs (MON,33) 6-0 (29-27 25-24 30-25)
[R1] Tarundeep Rai (IND,18) bt Juan Carlos Stevens (CUB,48) 6-5 (27-28 27-27 27-28 28-27 27-26) (in shoot-off Tarundeep won 9-8)
[R2] Rahul Banerjee (IND,54) l Rafal Dobrowolski (POL,104) 3-7 (28-28 25-27 29-26 26-29 25-26)
[R2] Tarundeep Rai (IND,18) l Bubmin Kim (KOR,21) 2-6 (26-27 28-30 28-25 26-28)
Women's Recurve Individual
[R1] Chekrovolu Swuro (IND,46) l Jennifer Nichols (USA,15) 5-6 (27-24 25-27 25-25 29-26 25-28) (shoot-off 9-9 but Jennifer's shot was closest)
Badminton
Men's Singles - Group D
Kashyap Parupalli (IND,21) bt (10) Nguyen Tien Minh (VIE,11) 21-9 21-14
[PQF] Kashyap Parupalli (IND,21) vs Niluka Karunaratne (SRI,48)
Mixed Doubles - Group C
Viju D (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) l Lee Yong Dae (KOR)/ Ha Jung Eun (KOR) 15-21 15-21
Women's Doubles - Group B
Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) bt Shinta Sari Mulia (SIN)/ Yao Lei (SIN) 21-16 21-15
Boxing
Men's Light Fly (49kg)
[R1] Devendro Singh Laishram (IND) bt Bayron Molina Figueroa (HON) RSC (2:24 R1)
[R2] Devendro Singh Laishram (IND) vs Serdamba Purevdorj (MGL)
Men's Light Welter (64kg)
[R1] Manoj Kumar (IND) bt Serdar Hudayberdiyev (TRK) 13-7
[R2] Manoj Kumar (IND) vs Thomas Stalker (GBR)
Judo - Women's - 63kg
[R1] Garima Chaudhary (IND) l Yoshie Ueno (JPN) 000-100 (1:21 Ippon)
Rowing
Men's Single Sculls - Quarter Final 3
4 Sawarn Singh (IND) 7:11.59
Men's Lightweight Double Sculls - Repechage 2
6 Sandeep Kumar (IND)/ Manjeet Singh (IND) 6:54.20
Tennis
Men's doubles
[R2] (7) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) l Julien Benneteau (FRA)/ Richard Gasquet (FRA) 36 46
Weightlifting - Men's 69kg - Group B
6 Ravi Kumar Katulu (IND) (136 + 167) 303 kgs
In men's singles terrific confident win by Kashyap against WR #11 Nguyen Tien Minh ... Kashyap defeated his Vietnamese opponent in 35 minutes dominating both games ... In pre-quarter final he is facing Sri Lankan Niluka Karunaratne.
Jwala and Diju ended their campaign with another loss ... So 0-3 win-loss record for them in this Olympics against their top 10 opponents ... But disappointing performance considering they failed to win a single game in three matches ... Jwala is still having chance in women's doubles to qualify for quarter-final with Ashwini.
Jwala and Ashwini scored straight games victory over higher ranked Singaporean pair ... After winning the first game after controlling from the start our pair was leading 9-0 and 11-1 in the second but after that they made numerous errors mainly by Jwala near the net ... Singaporean pair tried hard but difference was too much for them in the end ... Despite victory our pair mostly missing the place in quarter final on tie-break as they needed victory with 13 points difference but they managed to win by 11 points difference.
American archer Jacob Wukie produced perfect arrows hitting to beat Jayanta comfortably ... Chekrovolu Swuro missed chance as on the final arrow she required 9 point arrow to win this match but she managed only 6 ... In shoot-off both archers hit 9 points but American Jennifer Nichols arrow was closest.
Rahul Banerjee scored comfortable one-sided victory over Jantsan Gantugs in three straight sets ... But in the second round Rahul failed to produce consistent performance against Polish Rafal Dobrowolski ... In the first set both scored 28 ... Then in the second set Rahul's performance dip and Rafal take advantage to win it ... In the third set Rahul scored 29 to win it ... In the fourth Rafal scored 29 points and Rahul struggled ... In the fifth Rafal managed only 26 but Rahul scored only 25 to lose the set and match.
After poor performance by other archers Tarundeep Rai started on the back-foot ... After three sets he was down 1-5 but he fought back to win next 2 sets and take match into shoot-off ... In shoot-off Tarundeep hit 9 and Juan managed only 8 ... In pre-quarter final Tarundeep faced 2nd seed Korean Bubmin Kim ... In the first set Tarundeep was leading 18-17 after 2 arrows ... Kim scored 10 on the last and Tarundeep managed only 8 to lose this set ... Tarundeep never recovered from this lost opportunity ... In the second set Tarundeep scored 10, 9, 9 but Kim scored perfect 10 on all 3 arrows to win it ... Tarundeep won the third set when little lapse of concentration from Kim ... In the fourth Tarundeep managed 8, 8 in first 2 arrows but Kim managed again perfect 10 in his first 2 shots ... Tarundeep scored 10 on last arrow but 4 points deficit was far big as Kim scored 8 on the final arrow to win this match.
Japanese Yoshie Ueno easily defeated Garima Chaudhary by ippon in 1 minute 21 seconds with Kuzure-Kesa-Gatame hold.
Sawarn Singh finished on 4th position with 7:11.59 in Men's Single Sculls quarter final ... Conditions must be tough as all rowers struggled ... Only 10 rowers from 24 rowers managed to clocked below 7 minutes time with best time was from British rower, 6:52.10 ... Top 3 rowers were going to qualify for semis so Sawarn Singh missed that but he will participate in Semifinal C/D for 13 to 24 positions.
Sandeep Kumar and Manjeet Singh ended last in Repechage 2 with 6:54.20 ... They will participate in final rankings semifinal C/D.
In weightlifting, Ravi Kumar Katulu finished with disappointing (136 + 167) 303 kgs total lift in Men's 69kg - Group B.
Devendro Singh scored very dominating win against Honduras boxer Bayron Molina Figueroa when refree stopped contest when 36 seconds were remaining of the first round ... Devendro Singh was attacking from the start ... Figueroa needed 2 standing count-down before refree stopped this one-sided bout ... Next he is facing experienced Mongolian boxer Serdamba Purevdorj, who is silver medalist from Beijing Olympics and he also won World championship in 2009 and bronze medal in 2011.
Manoj Kumar also scored convincing victory over Turkmenistan boxer ... In the first round both boxers played cautiously and the round ended 2-all ... In the second round Manoj Kumar was aggressive and won this round comfortably 7-3 ... After taking lead Manoj Kumar played the final round without taking much risk but still won it 4-2 ... Next he is having tough match against local boxer, Thomas Stalker
Shocking loss for our 7th seed pairing of Mahesh and Rohan against tricky French pair ... In the first set our pair wasted 5 break points and other hand French pair converted one from one to win it ... In the second set our pair broke early to lead 2-0 but French pair immediately broke back and then take important break in 9th game and then hold their serve to win this set (match).
Worst possible draw for Sania and Lee in mixed doubles ... They r in top draw, in the first round they r facing Serbian pair of Nenad Zimonjic and Ana Ivanovic ... And if they win this then they will face top-seed Max Mirnyi and Victoria Azarenka.
