Asian Games Archery | India make quarters in all six team events
The Hindu
India archers show tenacity/authority to reach qtrs in all 6 team events. Ojas/Vennam, Das/Ankita, compound men's, women's, men's recurve & women's recurve teams win. Compound mixed, men's recurve face Mongolia, Japan respectively; women's compound vs Hong Kong. Quota spots available for Olympic-qualifying event.
Indian archers showed tenacity and authority in equal measure to storm into the quarterfinals in all the six team events of the Asian Games here on Monday.
The Indians played five team elimination rounds and dropped just one set on the way to their respective quarterfinal matches.
India have got a bye into the quarters by virtue of topping the qualifications in the women's compound team event.
First, it was the top-seeded compound mixed team of Ojas Deotale and Jyothi Surekha Vennam, who showed the way as they dropped just one point from 16 arrows to eliminate UAE's Amna Alawadhi and Mohammed Binamro 159-151.
The duo will take on formidable Malaysia (No 8 seed) in the quarters, and thereafter, they should have an easy draw till the final.
Then, the Indian recurve mixed pair duo of Atanu Das and Ankita Bhakat were at their resilient best and overcome a first-set deficit to defeat Malayasia in a three-setter.
The fifth seeded Indian duo of Das and Ankita rallied to beat Malaysian team of Syaqiera Binti Mashayikh and Muhamad Zarif Syahir Bin Zolkepeli 6-2 (39-38, 37-36, 39-33).