India’s top-ranked archer Deepika Kumari will start with her individual rounds against Kristine Esebua of Georgia at the Rio Olympics 2016. The 22-year-old Indian finished 20th in the ranking rounds, earning the chance to face her counterpart, who finished 45th.
The round-of-64 match will decide who moves to the next round, and face the winner of the match between Guendalina Sartori of Italy and Carolina Aguirre of Colombia, who will play just before the Indian and Georgia walk out for their match.
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Date and Time: Thursday, 11 August 2016 – 01:27am IST
Venue: Sambodromo Stadium, Rio de Janeiro.
A lot of expectations were pinned on Deepika before the start of the Games, however, the Jharkhand-born archer has so far failed to impress. While she finished a lowly 20th in the ranking round, she failed to keep her composure when the Women’s team were facing Russia in the quarter-finals of the team event.
Needing to score a perfect 10 in the last shot of the shoot-out, Deepika managed an 8, which meant the Indians bowed out of the event. However, one should not blame her completely for the loss as the conditions on that night were very windy and it was very hard for her and her teammates to shoot properly.
“We tried our best, and all of us gave 100 per cent but it’s really disappointing to lose this way, once again. It was very windy was kind of blowing away us. We tried our level best and were shooting confidently but somehow we missed the crucial points. The wind was blowing our equipment away and was difficult to target the centre”, Deepika said after the event.
The winner of this match will play the round-of-32 within half an hour of the conclusion of this match, at 1:57am IST.
