Madhusudhan

One more tough loss....Sathiyan Gnanasekaran lost in 2nd round to a lower ranked hong kong player in Table tennis....but the opponent seems to have some chinese background as he was playing too good

In shooting it seems like we are continuing from where were at Rio.......after rio there were lot of youngsters in indian shooting performing exceedingly well But the pressure of Olympics and lack of experience is getting over them With lot of potential but nothing to show as of now in terms of medals Hopefully on 27th in mixed team events they will raise to occasion...am pinning hopes on that day

Sania and Ankita lost their match after leading 6-0, 5-3....now i don't know what is the reason here (is it like some one injured? )

It seems that Manu Bhaker has equipment malfunctioning during qualification round resulting in loss of time....still she shot good score and finished in 12th Already we are having tough draws and competition and adding to them these type of issues

With the way things are going indian might find difficulty in getting the medal in mixed team air pistol event also If you consider the qualifications scores in both mens and womens section china has 2 pairs who are in top 8, ukraine has also one pair in top 8 followed closely by Iran, ROC and India So I feel with the china in competition the medal is not taken for granted......same may be the case in 10m Air rifle mixed team event also

Manu and Yashashwini unable to qualify for 10m Air pistol finals... Disappointment news keeps on coming from shooting

i feel he was completely outplayed by japanese opponent....may be vikas did not expected such a aggressive opponent

vikas krishnan surprisingly finding difficulty against japanese boxer

I think most of indian action for today is completed except Vikas krishnan boxing bout against japanese and Indian women's hockey match against netherlands

Hope Sindhu takes cue from sai performance and comes out firing on all cylinders straight away....as she has decent hongkong opponent in round robin matches to overcome Even a blip like sai will keep completely out of olympics

May be he lost his hopes as soon the moment he found out kento memoto as his QF opponent... But anyway medal is not expected from him This disappointment has been completely covered by fantastic win by Satwik and Chirag

Now add to that Suthirtha Mukherjee

now he may have to face medvedev in 2nd round

One more good news is chirag and satwik got the all important win over 3rd seed chinese taipei team... It was very tough match where they came back in 3rd thrilling set They need one more win to move to quarters !!!

But the saving grace is assured medal of mirabhai chanu.. she lived up to the expectations...well done...congratulations to her

As i was saying in shooting we have to lower our expectations...only saurabh seems more composed but he lost in final With the way things are going Only medal options left for india in shooting is in mixed team events

such a disappointment saurabh is eliminated at 6th position in finals... thats why had it could been 2 finalists for india, most probably india could have won the medal

Mirabhai chanu is in 2nd position after snatch with a lift of 87 kgs Now she is now left with clean and jerk where she holds the world record....but chinese is way ahead of her in snatch FIngers crossed for medal!!!

Saurabh qualified for final by finshing 1st... Abhishek completely lost it in final 4 shots...he was in race until then It would have been much better if both qualified for finals which could have assured us a medal Now entire onus is on Saurabh....i hope he continues same tempo in finals !!!

Sauarabh chaudhary is doing great in qualifcaition rounds....he is in 2nd position in 4th round of shooting Abhishek is at 14th position....he is slowly picking up after lying in 24th position Hope both qualifies for finals !!!

some more good news...after thrilling match india defeated newzealand by 3-2 in hockey.... its a good result considering newzealand is a tricky team

not such good news from shooting...both elavenil and apurvi did not qualified to finals if you observe 2 koreans and one chinese reached finals considering india performance at last world cup where korean and chinese shooters were not there, we have to keep our expectations realistic in shooting Now its up to saurabh and abhishek to give good news !!!

Good news from archery....indian mixed team entered quarters....most likely they have to face koreans

In Archery mens team is big time disappointment and particularly atanu das....deepika did decent job But some how our archery team finda way to finish ninth place in events where we have medal chances (i.e. womens individaul, mixed team and mens team) resulting in QF draw against korea....the only way we could have got archery medal is avoiding koreans before semis... Most surprising is Atnau finishing behind praveen jadhav resulting in breakup of atanu-deepika combination As some one said its either gold or no medal in archery....i hope they raises their level from now onwards

Btw in mixed team can korea place more than one team as most likely in womens and mens section they will be in top 4? Now it upto Atanu to good get ranking in individual so that our mixed team can get good seeding and avoid koreans before Semis.