Young compound archers Prathamesh Jawkar and Avneet Kaur shone in powerful circumstances to topple high seeds and ebook their berths in particular person males and ladies semifinals of the Archery World Cup Stage-2 in Shanghai on Thursday.
The 19-year-old Jawkar and 18-year-old Avneet will compete within the medal rounds on Saturday.
Jawkar shot constantly to beat Indonesia’s Dhany Diva Pradana 146-144, top-seeded Korean Kim Jongho 149-147, Danish Martin Damsbo 149-146 and eighth seed Kroean Choi Yonghee 149-148 to achieve the final 4, the place he’ll tackle Estonia’s Robin Jaatma.
Other male archers, Ojas Deotale, Rishabh Yadav and Rajat Chauhan, exited within the first spherical.
The Sixteenth-seeded Avneet, who obtained a primary spherical bye, received two shoot-offs on her strategy to the semifinals. She defeated Mexico’s Mariana Bernal 145-145 (10-9), top-seeded Korean Oh Yoohyun 142-142 (10*-10, shot nearer to centre) and Mexico’s Dafne Quintero 147-144 to arrange a last-four conflict with Great Britain’s World No. 1 Ella Gibson, who edged out Aditi Swami 142-141 within the quarterfinals.
Jyothi Surekha overwhelmed
Stage-1 gold medallist V. Jyothi Surekha was overwhelmed by Korean Su A. Cho 144-144 (10*-10) through tie-breaker.
In recurve competitions, the Indian males’s group, comprising B. Dhiraj, Atanu Das and Neeraj Chauhan, started with a bye, beat Chinese Taipei 5-3 earlier than shedding to top-ranked Korea 0-6.
The nation’s ladies’s group, together with Simranjeet Kaur, Bhajan Kaur and Ankita Bhakat, obtained a bye however misplaced to Indonesia 1-5.
