KOLKATA: The males’s recurve archers ensured India’s first medal on the season-opening World Cup Stage 1 at Antalya by making it to the gold-medal match on Thursday.
The Olympian duo Atanu Das and Tarundeep Rai, together with Dhirah Bommadevara, gained three straight matches to arrange a Sunday summit conflict with China, who’re making a comeback to worldwide competitors after a spot of just about 4 years.
India acquired previous Japan 5-4 within the second spherical after each side gained two units every to be tied 4-4. In the tie-break, India prevailed by a mere one level successful 29-28. However, within the quarters, India had it straightforward in opposition to twelfth seed Chinese Taipei successful 6-2.
The trio maintained the momentum in opposition to ninth seed the Netherlands within the semifinal too successful 6-2 after being down within the first set.
“It’s my first outdoor tournament for the country after the Tokyo Games, but it felt just like yesterday,” Das mentioned. “The wind was tricky but I enjoyed the challenge,”
he added.

However, their girls counterpart of Bhajan Kaur, Simranjeet Kaur and Ankita Bhakat had been eradicated within the second spherical happening to Spain 2-6 after beating Brazil by way of tie-break 5-4 within the opening spherical.
Jyothi Surekha Vennam remained in rivalry for a person medal turning into the one Indian girls compound archer to make the semifinals.
However, it was heartbreak within the males’s compound occasion as all of the three Indians — Ojas Deotale, Rajat Chauhan and Prathamesh Jawkar — had been eradicated within the quarterfinals.