{"id":245368,"date":"2024-07-31T00:13:06","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T18:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=245368"},"modified":"2024-07-31T00:13:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T18:43:06","slug":"bhajan-kaur-moves-to-pre-quarters-ankita-makes-early-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/07\/31\/bhajan-kaur-moves-to-pre-quarters-ankita-makes-early-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"Bhajan Kaur moves to pre-quarters; Ankita makes early exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-profession\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Paris, Jul 30 (PTI) Continuing her fine form, teenage Indian archer Bhajan Kaur notched back-to-back victories in the women&#8217;s individual event to advance to the pre-quarterfinals at the Paris Olympics here on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 18-year-old from Haryana, who had shot exceptionally well in the team event albeit in a losing cause, defeated Indonesia&#8217;s Syifa Nurafifah Kamal and Wioleta Myszor of Poland in her opening two rounds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Her compatriot, Ankita Bhakat, however, stumbled in the opening round, going down to Myszor 4-6 (26-27 29-26 28-27 27-29 27-28).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kaur took her opening round against the Indonesian 7-3 (27-27 27-29 29-27 27-25 28-25).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While the first set was a tie with both archers sharing a point each, Kaur shot three 9s as compared to Kamal&#8217;s one 9 and two 10s to lose the second set.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, the youngster held her nerve and went on to win the next three sets on the back of her consistent shooting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Having found her rhythm, she avenged Bhakat&#8217;s defeat, inflicting a 6-0 (28-23 29-26 28-22) defeat on Myszor in the next round.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Her round of 16 match is scheduled for Saturday, for which her opponent is yet to be decided.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris, Jul 30 (PTI) Continuing her fine form, teenage Indian archer Bhajan Kaur notched back-to-back victories in the women&#8217;s individual event to advance to the pre-quarterfinals at the Paris Olympics here on Tuesday. The 18-year-old from Haryana, who had shot exceptionally well in the team event albeit in a losing cause, defeated Indonesia&#8217;s Syifa Nurafifah [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-245368","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}