India boxing star Nikhat Zareen continued her profitable streak to enter the quarterfinals on the Women’s World Championships. Along with Nikhat three different pugilists together with Nitu Ghanghas, and Jaismine Lamboria additionally superior into the QFs.
Competing in her first worldwide match within the 50 kg weight class, Nikhat defeated Mexico’s Patricia Alvarez Herrera 5-0 to register her third win of the match.
Commonwealth Games bronze medallist Jaismine (60kg) overpoweredMijgona Samadova of Tajikistan. Nitu Ghanghas (48kg) gained her bout with a first-round RSC towards Sumaiya Qosimova of Tajikistan. On the opposite hand, Manisha Moun (57kg) defeated Nur Elif Turhan of Turkey when the referee dominated in her favour within the third spherical.
Shashi Chopra (63kg) and Manju Bamboriya (66kg) bowed out of the championship. Shashi misplaced 0-4 to Mai Kito of Japan and Manju suffered a defeat to Navbakhor Khamidova of Uzbekistan.
Nikhat who’s simply three bouts away from profitable the gold mentioned she expressed how she is feeling progressing to the following stage.
“I am happy that I have defeated the person that has got seeding number one,” the unseeded Nikhat, who had a number of cuts on her lip, mentioned after her bout.
“I nonetheless have some fatigue from my final spherical because it was towards the highest seed. It was robust and her punches landed fairly effectively so my neck was a bit tight and my physique a bit gradual in contrast to my final bout. But I’m comfortable that I gained unanimously this time.
“In my boxing career, this is the first competition that I’ll play six bouts because I didn’t get a seeding, but I am not focussing on that.”
Eight Indian pugilists – Nitu, Nikhat, Sakshi Choudhary (52kg), Manisha, Jaismine, Lovlina Borgohain (75kg), Saweety Boora (81kg), and Nupur Sheoran (+81kg) will compete within the quarterfinals on Wednesday.
