Ren hayakawa, Olympic athlete

Star Indian archer Deepika Kumari defeated Russian Olympic Committee's (ROC) Ksenia Perova in the women's individual event to progress into the quarter-finals here at Yumenoshima Park on Friday.World number one defeated Ksenia by 6-5 in the 1/8 Eliminations round in the ongoing Tokyo 2020 Olympics.Both archers had a good start in the match with a 9, but the Indian's second arrow was a perfect one. Perova who was then under pressure, landed a 7 resulting in Deepika gathering the two points by 28-25.Ksenia Perova hit back in an absolute fashion as she clinched the next set. Deepika pegged one back in third and took the lead.Fourth went tied with both archers shooting 26. With her back against the wall, the Russian responded well in the decider and took the match to the shoot-off.Ksenia started the shoot-off with a poor 7 which Indian responded with a perfect 10 as she wrapped up the match.With this win, Deepika will either face San An of South Korea or Japan's Ren Hayakawa in the quarterfinals.Earlier on Thursday, Deepika's husband Atanu shocked South Korea's Jinhyek Oh in a nail-biting finish to make it to the 1/8 Elimination round in the men's individual archery.Deepika defeated USA's Jennifer Mucino-Fernandez 6-4 in the 1/16 eliminations round on Wednesday to set up the match with Perova.( With inputs from ANI )Disclaimer: This post has been auto-published from an agency feed without any modifications to the text and has not been reviewed by an editor

Home

City

Latest News

Cricket

LT Premium

National

International

Maharashtra

Opinions

Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar

Nagpur

Entertainment

Photos

Business

Technology

Sports

Lifestyle

Social Viral

Lokmat Games

Health

Narendra Modi

Lok Sabha Election 2024

Heatwave In India

Mumbai Mega Block

Maharashtra Lok Sabha Election

T20 World Cup 2024

Ren HayakawaFOLLOW

Ren hayakawa, Latest News

Other Sports :Tokyo Olympics: Deepika Kumari progress into QFs after defeating Ksenia Perova 6-5

Star Indian archer Deepika Kumari defeated Russian Olympic Committee's (ROC) Ksenia Perova in the women's individual event to progress into the quarter-finals here at Yumenoshima Park on Friday. ...