India’s Day 11 schedule: Men's hockey team set eyes on gold, Vinesh in action

Monday was a day of near misses as Lakshya Sens steely resolve finally wilted in the highpressure bronze playoff an unexpected skeet medal in shooting slipped away after a promising start while a podium hope in wrestling was left in tears adding to Indias mounting heartbreaks in the Paris Olympics 2024Sen hoping to become Indias first male shuttler to win an Olympic medal was expected to come out trumps against Malyasias world no7 Lee Zii Jia But it was not meant to be as he squandered a games advantage to lose 2113 1621 1121 in a 71minute clashAround the time the 22yearold crumbled under pressure in Paris some 300km away in Chateaurouxs shooting range Maheshwari Chauhan and Anant Jeet Singh Naruka lost by a solitary point to China in the skeet mixed team event settling for the fourth spotMaheshwari and Naruka shot 43 to finish fourth behind Chinas Yiting Jiang and Jianlin Lyu 44 in a thrilling match for the bronze medalIt all started with a firedup Sen who looked like an unstoppable force in the opening game But then Lee became an immovable force in the second game going on a ninepoint streak that completely changed the complexion of the matchThere was more agony in store for India when grappler Nisha Dahiya was left sobbing in acute pain after she lost her quarterfinal bout to North Koreas Pak Sol Gum 810 in the womens 68 kg freestyle categoryLeading 81 at one stage with just over 90 seconds left Nisha sustained a serious injury on her right hand which left her in agonising pain as she wept inconsolablyFollowing a medical break she didnt have any strength left in her right hand and it became a cakewalk for the North Korean who showed her ruthless streak to get a leghold and nine straight pointsWith 10 seconds left the scoreline was 88 but the writing was on the wall as the Haryana woman surrendered in the dying momentsIt wasnt all doom and gloom though with the womens table tennis team of Manika Batra Sreeja Akula and Archana Kamath beating higherranked Romania to enter the quarterfinalsLeading 20 India saw Romania fight back to draw level at 22 but in the decider Manika delivered for her sideSreeja and Archana started the proceedings with a 119 1210 117 win over Adina Diaconu and Elizabeta Samara in a doubles matchAlso ReadOrganisation stripped of Olympic boxing claims genderrow fighters are maleManika made short work of higherranked Bernadette Szocs in a 115 117 117 victory as India took a comfortable 20 lead in the tie against their fourthseeded opponents India are seeded 11th in the competitionIn the second singles match however things did not go in Indias favour as Sreeja went down 23 118 411 117 611 811 to European champion Samara after winning the first gameSreejas defeat paved the way for a faceoff between Archana and Bernadette in which the latter prevailedManika then blanked Adina 30 115 119 119 to seal the tie in Indias favourFollowing is Indias Day 11 schedule at the Paris Olympics 2024 on TuesdayTable Tennis130 PM Harmeet Desai Sharath Kamal and Manav Thakkar vs China in Mens Team PrequarterfinalAthletics150 PM Kishore Jena in Mens Javelin Throw Qualification Group A250 PM Kiran Pahal in Womens 400m Repechage RoundWrestling3 PM Vinesh Phogat in Womens Freestyle 50kg Round of 16Athletics320 PM Neeraj Chopra in Mens Javelin Throw Qualification Group BWrestling420 PM Vinesh Phogat in Womens Freestyle 50kg Quarterfinal If qualifiedSailing613 PM Nethra Kumanan Womens Dinghy Medal Race If qualified717 PM Vishnu Saravanan Mens Dinghy Medal Race If qualifiedWrestling1025 PM Vinesh Phogat in Womens Freestyle 50kg Semifinal If qualifiedHockey1030 PM India vs Germany in Mens semifinal