Indian archers made a flying begin to their marketing campaign in the Asia Cup Stage 2 World Ranking Tournament, advancing to the finals of all four staff occasions in the recurve and compound sections, in Tashkent on Tuesday.
The top-seeded Indian males’s recurve staff of Mrinal Chauhan, Tushar Shelke and Jayanta Talukdar eradicated hosts’ Uzbekistan’s Chen Yao Yuy, Mirjalol Karorov and Amirkhan Sadikov 6-0 (56-54, 57-54, 56-53) in the semifinal.
They began off with a 6-0 (54-49, 58-48, 53-45) win over Kyrgyzstan.
The males’s recurve staff will tackle their rivals from China in the gold medal conflict on Friday.
Recurve ladies’s staff of Sangeeta, Prachi Singh and Tanisha Verma overcame Uzbekistan in a nail-biting tiebreaker end to emerge 5-4 (53-54, 56-49, 52-50, 52-54, 26*-26) winners.
In the semi-final, the Indian ladies’s recurve staff defeated Saudi Arabia 6-0 (50-40, 54-47, 49-45) in the quarters. India will face China in the ladies’s recurve staff remaining too.
Having bought a bye into semi-final, the top-seeded compound males’s staff of Abhishek Verma, Kushal Dalal and Amit bought the higher of Saudi Arabia 236-221 to make the ultimate.
They will tackle Hong Kong in the gold medal conflict on Friday.
The compound ladies’s staff of Parneet Kaur, Pragati and Raginee Markoo are already in the ultimate after topping the qualification spherical and they’re going to additionally tackle Hong Kong in the gold medal conflict.
With no individuals from heavyweights Korea, it is a depleted discipline on the Asia Cup Stage 2. India have despatched their second-string facet for the continental showpiece.
