The Indian trio of Tarundeep Rai, Dheeraj Bommadevra and Praveen Jadhav reached the men’s team recurve final of the Archery World Cup Stage 1 in Shanghai on Thursday to set up a gold medal clash with Olympic champions Korea. This happened a day after India was assured of at least two medals in the compound competition after both the men’s and women’s teams reached the finals. The Indian recurve team, which qualified by defeating reigning world and Olympic champions South Korea, defeated Italy 5-1 (55-54, 55-55, 56-55) in the last four stage.
India will face South Korea’s Tokyo Olympics gold medalist trio of Kim Woojin, Lee Woo Seok and Kim Jae Deok in the final to be held on Sunday.
The top-seeded Korean trio defeated their Chinese Taipei rivals Tan Chih-chun, Lin Zih-hsiang and Tai Yu-hwan in straight sets 6-0 (57-50, 58-56, 58-54).
In the compound event, former World Youth champion Priyansh and current Asian Games gold medalist Jyothi Surekha Vennam reached their respective individual semi-finals and remain in medal hopes.
After receiving a first-round bye in the season-opening tournament, the second-seeded men’s recurve team bounced back from a first-set loss to defeat 15th-seeded Indonesia 5–3 (55–56, 54–54, 55–51, 55–55). 53) In their complicated initial struggle.
They returned to their best form against seventh-seeded Spain as they started by losing only one point (59 out of 60) and won 5–1 (59–54, 56–55, 55–55) to reach the semi-finals. Made space. ,
The Indian women’s team of Deepika Kumari, Ankita Bhakta and Bhajan Kaur, who were ranked sixth in the qualifiers, had a poor performance and lost their opening match to Mexico after squandering a 3-1 lead.
After getting a bye in the first round, the Indian women’s team took a 3-1 lead in the second set. But their scores were below average and they eventually lost 3-5 (50-50, 55-49, 51-54, 52-54).
Later, World Cup gold medalist Jyoti, who is seeded second, defeated her teammate Avneet Kaur in a tight contest 143-142 to reach the semi-finals in the compound competition.
Youngster Avneet gave a tough fight to her experienced teammate as she reached 86 after being two points behind in the third end.
She then scored two 10s, including an ace, in the center ring to take a 115–114 lead, but faltered in the final and ended up on the 8-ring.
Jyoti seals it with two X’s and a nine. In the semi-finals on Saturday, Jyoti will face Miri-Martia Pas of Estonia.
There was sadness for India’s teenage defending world champion Adi Swamy, who lost 142-144 to top seed Andrea Becerra of Mexico in the quarter-finals.
Priyansh, seeded 14th, defeated Turkey’s Batuhan Akcaoglu in a thrilling shoot-off to reach the last four, where he will face Nick Capers of America.
In the tiebreaker, both the archers were tied at 145-145. The 21-year-old Indian mustered up the courage to score two 10s to get past Akcaoglu, who managed to score 10 and 9.
Kapers defeated another Indian, Prathamesh Phuge, 149-147 in his quarter-final.
Experienced Abhishek Verma bowed out in the second round after losing to France’s Jean-Philippe Baulch.
Fourth Indian Rajat Chauhan’s campaign was ended by Priyansh in the second round.
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