Tokyo: World number one bowman Deepika Kumari’s mission for an Olympic decoration finished in grievousness for the third time as she lost to Korean favorite A San in straight sets in the quarter-finals on Friday.
Deepika failed four 7s as An, who had broken a 25-year-old Olympic record on the way to garnish the positioning round, wrapped up the ladies’ individual match 6-0 in under six minutes.
For the three-time Olympian Deepika, this was one more disastrous trip at the Games.
In the 2016 Rio Olympics, she had lost in the pre-quarterfinals, while at her lady Olympics in London, where she had gone as a main positioned player, she had slammed out in the opening round.
Deepika’s significant other Atanu Das is the lone Indian left in dispute for a decoration as he made the pre-quarterfinals on Thursday with a staggering shoot-off prevail upon double cross Olympic top dog Oh Jin Hyek.
In his keep going 16 match scheduled on Saturday, Das will confront home most loved Takaharu Furukawa, an individual silver medallist at the 2012 Olympics and a group bronze victor here
Prior in her last-16 match, Deepika held her nerves to pip 2017 best on the planet Ksenia Perova of the Russian Olympic Committee in an exciting one-bolt shoot-off to seal a 6-5 (10-7) win.
Locked 5-5 after the guideline five-setter, the 27-year-old Indian conveyed an ideal 10, hitting the dead center, to bring down the group silver medallist at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Getting going the one-bolt shoot-off, the Russian disintegrated under tension as she fizzled a 7 as a created Deepika polished it off in style.