Tokyo Olympics: India’s schedule and medal prospects on July 27
Today was not a special day for India in Tokyo Olympics. India’s star table tennis players Manika Batra and Sutirtha Mukherjee crashed out in straight games in women’s singles. However, Sharath Kamal reached the third tour and now Sharath is the only hope of a medal in table tennis. Indian athletes had a dissapointing outing in other sports as well. Tennis player Sumit Nagal who became the first Indian in 25 years to win the first round match in tennis lost to number 2 seed Daniil Medvedev. C.A Bhavani Devi who rewrote record books with her representation of India in the sport of fencing had a great first round match winning 15-3 however she lost to world number 3 Manon Brunet of France in the second round. Now on the fifth day everyone will have hopes from Sharath Kamal and the team of Saurabh Chaudhary and Manu Bhaker. Let us know the schedule of India in Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday (July 27) according to Indian time.
Shooting:
10m Air Pistol Mixed Team Qualification Phase I, 5:30 am IST (Saurabh Chaudhary and Manu Bhaker, Yashaswini Deswal and Abhishek Verma)
10m Air Rifle Mixed Team Qualification Stage I at 9:45 am IST (Elavenil Valarivan and Divyansh Singh Panwar, Anjum Mudgil and Deepak Kumar)
Table Tennis:
Achanta Sharath Kamal vs Ma Long (China), Men’s Singles Third Round at 8:30 AM IST
Boxing:
Lovlina Borgohain vs Nadine Apetz, Women’s Welterweight Round of 16 at 10:57 AM IST
Badminton:
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty vs Ben Lane and Sean Wendy (UK), Men’s doubles Group A match at 8:30 AM IST
Hockey:
India vs Spain, Men’s Pool A match, from 6.30 am IST
Sailing:
Nethra Kumanan, Women’s Laser Radial, 8:35 am IST, Vishnu Saravanan, Men’s Laser, 8:45 am IST. KC Ganpati and Varun Thakkar, Men’s Skiff 49 ER, at 11:20 am IST.
