A “fatigued” Nikhat Zareen continued her successful run to enter the quarterfinals together with three different pugilists, together with Commonwealth Games bronze medallist Jaismine Lamboria, on the Women’s World Championships in New Delhi on Tuesday. Competing in her first worldwide match in 50kg weight class, Nikhat noticed off Mexico’s Patricia Alvarez Herrera 5-0 to notch up her third win of the match. Commonwealth Games champion Nitu Ghanghas (48kg) gained her bout with a primary spherical RSC in opposition to Sumaiya Qosimova of Tajikistan, whereas final 12 months’s bronze medallist Manisha Moun (57kg) obtained the higher of Nur Elif Turhan of Turkey when the referee dominated in her favour within the third spherical.

Jaismine (60kg) got here from a spherical right down to overpower Mijgona Samadova of Tajikistan.

Shashi Chopra (63kg) and Manju Bamboriya (66kg), nevertheless, bowed out of the match.

While Shashi misplaced 0-4 to Mai Kito of Japan, Manju was actually out-punched by Navbakhor Khamidova of Uzbekistan.

Nikhat took a couple of seconds to decipher her opponent’s recreation plan earlier than attacking. She used her nimble ft to duck away from Herrera’s counter assaults.

Both the boxers have moved down from the 52kg weight division. Well conscious of the Mexican’s aggressive type of play, Nikhat used her pace to land correct jabs and hooks.

Herrera, whom she had overwhelmed within the final version, tried her finest to shift the momentum in her favour however Nikhat’s relentless assaults proved too robust.

Nikhat, who has already performed three bouts, together with one in opposition to the highest seed, and remains to be three bouts away from the gold, mentioned she is feeling fatigued.

“I am happy that I have defeated the person that has got seeding number one,” the unseeded Nikhat, who had a number of cuts on her lip, mentioned after her bout.

“I still have some fatigue from my last round as it was against the top seed. It was tough and her punches landed pretty well so my neck was a little tight and my body a little slow compared to my last bout. But I am happy that I won unanimous this time.

“In my boxing profession, that is the primary competitors that I’ll play six bouts as a result of I did not get a seeding, however I’m not focussing on that.” Eight Indian pugilists — Nitu, Nikhat, Sakshi Choudhary (52kg), Manisha, Jaismine, Lovlina Borgohain (75kg), Saweety Boora (81kg) and Nupur Sheoran (+81kg) will compete in the quarterfinals on Wednesday.

Earlier in the opening session of the day, Nitu registered her second RSC win in as many bouts in the tournament.

Both Nitu and Qosimova tried to figure out each other’s game, but then the Indian connected four straight jabs which forced the referee to give the opponent her first standing count.

Nitu continued her onslaught as she cornered the Tajikistan pugilist and pummelled her with straight jabs.

The referee gave Qosimova her second standing count before calling the contest in the Indian’s favour much to the disappointment of her opponent, who kept showing the thumbs down gesture when the result was called.

The experienced Manisha used a straight jab followed by a combination of punches to assert her authority.

Considerably taller than the Turkish boxer, Manisha used that to her advantage as she unleashed a right and left hook followed by a straight jab.

Turhan looked to attack in the second round after receiving two standing counts in the first three minutes but Manisha continued landing hooks and jabs quite seamlessly.

She kept moving around to dodge her opponent’s punches. A flurry of jabs and hooks by Manisha led the referee to stop the contest in favour of the home boxer with only few seconds left for the final bell.