Star Indian archer Deepika Kumari completed ninth in the ladies’s particular person ranking spherical to safe a straightforward first-round conflict in the primary occasion because the nation’s Olympic marketing campaign kickstarted on the Yumenoshima Park in Tokyo on Friday (July 23). The world No. 1 completed with 663 factors, whereas 20-year-old Korean prodigy An San (680) topped the qualification spherical with an Olympic record rating of 680. Deepika will now have a straightforward first-round outing towards world No.193 Karma of Bhutan, who completed 56th in the ranking spherical.
The Indian may run into San in the quarterfinal stage. Deepika had misplaced to her in straight units throughout their solely trade in an Olympic Test occasion on the similar venue in 2019. The earlier Olympic record rating in the person ranking spherical was 673 held by Ukraine’s Lina Gerasymenko manner again at Atlanta 1996 Olympics.
The world record (692) is held by Kang Chae Wong, the world No.3 who completed third with 675 factors for a Korean top-three in the qualification spherical. Jang Minhee (677) completed second.
Deepika fancied her probabilities on the midway mark (36 arrows) as she occupied the fourth place with 334 factors, one level forward of Korean heavyweight Kang Chae Wong. But she slipped in the back-end and was woefully out of mark with two 53s in the eighth and penultimate finish to slide behind, whereas Mexican Alejandra Valencia climbed to the fourth place.
“I feel my performance was good as well as bad…It was in between I would say,” Deepika mentioned.
On her slip-up in the ultimate six units, she mentioned: “I don’t know why it was like that; I was trying to control my shots so that I could play better.”
Deepika’s greatest problem is more likely to be in the last-eight the place she may run into San who’s making her Olympic debut. Two years after she misplaced on the similar venue to San on the ‘Tokyo 2020 Test Event’ right here, Deepika would look to avenge her remaining defeat.
“I’m talking to myself, I’m controlling my emotions and trying to make myself better and better. I want to show my best performance here and I will show that in my next rounds,” Deepika vowed to return again robust.
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The qualifying spherical outcomes are used to seed the athletes and nations for the person, combined group and group competitions, deciding their opponents in the competitors. Archers shoot 72 arrows on the goal set 70 metres away, in 12 collection of six arrows. They are ranked from highest to lowest on the finish of the spherical. An archer’s place after the ranking spherical turns into their seeding for matchplay. The Games will formally open this night.
Deepika to face Bhutan’s Bhu Karma in subsequent spherical
Deepika, who can be seeded ninth in the ladies’s particular person occasion, will now face 56th positioned Bhu Karma from Bhutan in the primary elimination spherical. After ending ninth in the ladies’s particular person archery ranking spherical Deepika with a complete rating of 663, India’s World no. 1 will now conflict with Bhutan’s Bhu Karma in the primary spherical on July 28. Bhu Karma, a Rio Olympian, is 193rd in the world rankings.
If Deepika progress into the quarterfinal of the occasion, she may face high seed An San from South Korea on July 30.
(with company inputs)
