Achanta Sharath Kamal’s progress to the third round of the men’s singles in table tennis was the only bright spot on another gloomy day for India at the Tokyo Olympics on Monday.
The veteran paddler overcame a sluggish start to beat Portugal's Tiago Apolonia in his second round match and set up a meeting with China’s defending Olympic champion Ma Long.
Fencer C A Bhavani Devi also showed some spark in her Olympics debut, otherwise it was a dismal outing for Indians in most disciplines.
Here's a look at their performances on Monday, July 26.
ARCHERY
India (Pravin Jadhav, Atanu Das and Tarundeep Rai) beat Kazakhstan in the Men's Team 1/8 Eliminations 6-2.
In the Round of 8, India lost to South Korea 0-6.
BADMINTON
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy/Chirag Shetty lost 13-21, 12-21 to Marcus Gideon Fernaldi/Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo (Indonesia) in Men's Doubles Group A.
BOXING
Ashish Kumar lost to China's Erbieke Tuoheta 0-5 in Men's 75kg Round of 32 bout.
FENCING
C Bhavani Devi beat Nadia Ben Azizi (Tunisia) 15-3 in Women's Sabre Individual Round 1.
Lost to France’s Manon Brunet 7-15 in Round 2.
HOCKEY
India lost to Germany 0-2 in Women's Pool A match.
SHOOTING
Angad Vir Singh Bajwa finished 18th with a score 120 (24, 25, 24, 23, 24), while Mairaj Ahmad Khan placed 25th with a score of 117 (25, 24, 22, 23, 23) in Men's Skeet, failed to make six-man final.
SWIMMING
Sajan Prakash failed to qualify for the men's 200m butterfly semi-finals after finishing fourth in Heat 2. With a timing of 1:57.22 seconds he placed 24th among 38 swimmers.
TABLE TENNIS
Achanta Sharath Kamal beat Portugal’s Tiago Apolonia 2-11, 11-8, 11-5, 9-11 11-6, 11-9 in Men's Singles Round 2.
Manika Batra lost Austria’s Sofia Polcanova 8-11, 2-11, 5-11,7-11 in Women's Singles Round 3.
Sutirtha Mukherjee lost 3-11, 3-11, 5-11, 5-11 to Sweden's Linda Bergstrom in Women’s Singles Round 2.
TENNIS
Sumit Nagal lost 2-6, 1-6 to Daniil Medvedev of Russian Olympic Committee in Men's Singles Round 2.
