“We have to do the right thing and recover as soon as possible mentally and physically, probably more mentally than physically, and try and come out there and have another shot at a medal”.
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“We have to try and recover as quick as possible, mentally and physically”.
Ranked 24th in Doubles now, Ram has reached at least the quarter-finals of every Grand Slam and will also receive his first ever Olympic medal at the Mixed Doubles tournament.
But Sania’s serve was broken in the 11th game of the set to make it 6-5 for Hradecka to serve it out for the match.
I also served very well today.
Lalita also became the first Indian woman to qualify for an individual Olympic track event final since P.T. Usha did so in 400m hurdles in the 1984 Games.
Sania asserted that the Indians specifically targetted Watson as they felt that she was the weaker partner in the British team. “Hope to do better the next time”. “We are really happy the way we played but of course there’s room for improvement”, she said after the game. She, however, expressed her disappointment for compatriot Sudha for failing to make the cut.
Nirmala Sheoran finished a distant 35th overall in 400m preliminaries after ending up sixth out of seven runners in heat 1 in 53.03 seconds.
INDIAN shooter Mairaj Ahmad Khan produced a creditable performance to finish 10th in the qualification round of the men’s Skeet event.
Gurpreet, who was ranked 10th, scored 289 points with 10 inner 10s after the first qualifying stage.
His one bad round of 90 on day one of the two-day event cost him a place in the final.
Meanwhile, rower Dattu Bhokanal gave a spirited performance and qualified for Final C after finishing second in men’s singles sculls semi-final C/D 2. He has won a total of two Singles titles and nine Doubles titles.
In women’s hockey, India were thrashed by Argentina 0-5, their fourth successive loss in five matches in Pool B. They are out of the fray.
Garcia and Mladenovic joined forces at the beginning of the season with the Oympics in mind but were knocked out in the first round last week in a tense match where they had issues with their clothing as they were not informed by the French Tennis Federation that they had to wear the same coloured clothing.
In golf, SSP Chawrasia brought home a second successive even-par 71 to lie tied 30th while Anirban Lahiri carded a disappointing two-over 73 to be placed tied 51st after the second round of the four-round stroke play competition.
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Shuttlers Jwala and Ashwini added insult to injury after losing their inconsequential Group A match against Puttita Supajirakul and Sapsiree Taerattanachai of Thailand to bow out of the Olympic Games.
