It was a well-recognized script for Indian archers as they had been eradicated by heavyweights Korea within the quarterfinals of the lads’s recurve staff occasion within the World Cup Stage 1 right here on Thursday.
The Indian trio of Dhiraj Bommadevara, Atanu Das and Neeraj Chauhan suffered a lopsided 0-6 (54-55, 56-57, 54-59) defeat by the hands of the highest seeded Korean staff of Lee Woo Seok, Kim Je Deok and Kim Woojin.
The eighth seeded Indian males’s recurve staff started its marketing campaign with a hard-fought 5-3 (57-57, 56-58, 57-56, 58-51) win over Chinese language Taipei.
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In Males’s qualification spherical,
Dhiraj Bommadevara completed thirteenth with rating of 656, Atanu Das completed forty fourth with 638 pic.twitter.com/oKo6BbHTHA— SAI Media (@Media_SAI) May 17, 2023
The ladies’s trio of Simranjeet Kaur, Avneet Kaur and Ankita Bhakat, which acquired the fourth seeding in staff qualification, put up a sloppy present to make a first-round exit.
They misplaced out to lower-ranked Indonesia 1-5 (54-57, 57-57, 50-52) in a one-sided affair.
Within the recurve staff occasions, Indian hopes will now relaxation on the combined pair duo of Dhiraj Bommadevara and Simranjeet Kaur.
By advantage of ending fifth in qualifiers, they have a bye into the second spherical (pre-quarterfinals) within the recurve combined staff draw of 32.