Paris Olympics 2024 Day 10 Highlights: Nisha Dahiya loses in quarters in wrestling; Lakshya Sen misses bronze

CHENNAI: The Day 10 of the Paris Olympics didn’t go as some of the Indian contingents would’ve hoped as two bronze medals got away in badminton and mixed skeet shooting event.

In the women’s table tennis group event, India defeated Romania in the round of 16 match and qualified to the quarter-finals . India’s Archana and Sreeja defeated the Romanian pair of Diaconu and Samara in the first match (11-9, 12-10, 11-7). The match went down the wire and at the end the experienced Manika Batra won the must-win game 5.

Indian athlete Kiran Pahal came in seventh at the women’s 400m event. But she has another chance in the repechage round on Tuesday to qualify into the semi-finals.

Wrestler Nisha Dahiya won against Ukraine’s Tetiana Rizhko in the Women's Freestyle 68 kg category, but unfortunately she lost to Pak Sol Gum of North Korea in quarters. 

Indian shooters Maheshwari Chauhan and Anant Jeet Naruka Singh narrowly missed out on a bronze medal, losing to China's Yiting Jiang and Jianlin Ku in the bronze medal match. The Indian duo had earlier finished fourth in the qualification round to secure their spot in the bronze medal match. Despite a strong effort, they ultimately fell short against their Chinese opponents.

But the biggest disappointment came in badminton for India today as Lakshya Sen, who was all set to make history by becoming the only male shuttler to win an Olympic medal went down against Malaysia’s Lee Zii Jia. He won the first set (21- 13) against the Malaysian, but couldn’t fight in the next two (16- 21, 11- 21).

 Today is a pivotal day for Lakshya Sen as he aims to create history in the men’s singles badminton bronze medal match. If he wins, he will be the first male Indian shuttler to win a medal in the Olympic Games.

Coming to other events, Day 10 of the Paris Olympics will start off with the skeet mixed team qualification featuring Indian shooters Maheshwari and Anant.

Next, in table tennis, India's AG Kamath, Manika Batra, and Sreeja Akula will face Romania in the round of 16 of the team event.

In the men's dingy, India's Vishnu Saravanan will be in action for Race 9 of the sailing event. Saravanan, who was the first Indian sailor to qualify for the Paris Olympics was in 18th place after Race 8 on Sunday.

The Indian athletics contingents is yet to make a major mark in the Paris Olympics and Avinash Sable, who is competing in the men's 3000m steeplechase event will be raring to qualify to the finals after narrowly missing out in the Tokyo Games last time around.

Finally, Indian boxer Nisha Dahiya will go up against Ukraine’s Tetiana Rizhko in the Women's Freestyle 68 kg category.

Indian shooters Maheshwari Chauhan and Anant Naruka Jeet Singh in action

The top four teams at the end will qualify into medal matches.

Total of 15 teams, 3 rounds and top 2 from qualification will play for gold and 3 and 4 placed teams will play for bronze in final

AG Kamath, Manika Batra and Sreeja Akula will face Romania in the round of 16 of the team event.

Sreeja Akula/Archana Girish Kamath vs Romania's Elizabeta Samara/Adina Diaconu

Maheshwari and Naruka at Round 1 

After leading for the majority of the game, Romania's Elizabeta Samara/Adina Diaconu played some good strokes and scored back-to-back points, but the Indian duo got ahead and won the first set

Sreeja Akula and Archana Girish Kamath got two back-to-back games against Romania's Elizabeta Samara and Adina Diaconu

The young Indian duo of Sreeja Akula and Archana Girish Kamath won in a dominant fashion by winning three straight sets against Romania's Elizabeta Samara and Adina Diaconu. 

Maheshwari and Naruka secures fourth spot in Skeet Shooting Round 1.

Round 2 Begins

Manika is up against Bernadette Szocs

After trailing 1-4 Manika gives a strong comeback to lead 7-5 

At first, it was not looking good for the Indian as her opponent Bernadette Szocs was leading 4-1. But Manika staged a strong comeback and won the fist game

The 29-year-old Manika Batra got the better off her opponent Bernadette Szocs and won two straight games. 

India's Sreeja Akula is up against Romania's Elizabeta Samara

The game is intensely contested, with neither Sreeja or Elizabeta able to gain a clear advantage.

Sreeja 8 - 7 Elizabeta

With a final surge of determination, Sreeja claims the win, Capping off an electrifying contest against Romania's Elizabeta

Sreeja 11 - 8 Elizabeta

Elizabeta is putting up a formidable fight, refusing to hand Sreeja an easy win and pushing her to her limits !!

Sreeja 4 - 11 Elizabeta

After a tough fight, Sreeja equals against Eliabeta at the centre

Sreeja 6 - 6 Elizabeta

Sreeja Akula recovers from a loss in Set 2 to win Set 3 and stay in contention against Elizabeta

Sreeja 11 - 7 Elizabeta

Elizabeta seizes control in Set 4, dominating the game and taking the set in convincing way against Sreeja

Sreeja 6  - 11 Elizabeta

After a long rally, Elizabeta takes the game in her way and not letting Indians to enter semi-final that easy.

After the win, Romania enters into the fourth match.

Sreeja 11 - 8 Elizabeta

Archana Girish Kamath takes on Bernadette Szőcs 

Bernadette Szőcs was quick and Archana didn't have any answers in the first set

Archana looking good at the moment. 

Bernadette Szőcs dominated the third set and won against Archana Girish Kamath

Bernadette Szőcs won the fourth game against Archana Girish Kamath. This means India have lost two consecutive games after leading 2-0. 

The round of 16 contest goes to fifth and final match. Winner takes all. 

It's Manika Batra vs Adina Diaconu in the decider 

Manika cruises past Adina in game 1 

She'll be in repechage rounds tomorrow and has another shot to qualify for semi-final

Manika Batra just 1 win away from helping India defeat Romania 

She'll be in repechage rounds tomorrow and has another shot to qualify for semi-final

India women's table tennis team qualified to the quarter-finals by defeating Romania (3 - 2)

Indian shooters Maheshwari Chauhan and Anant Jeet Naruka Singh stands at 10th spot

After defeating Romania in round of 16, Indian Women's team will play against USA or Germany in the Quarter-final tomorrow.

Indian Shooters Maheshwari Chauhan and Anant Naruka Singh are into bronze medal match. These finishes at 4th place in skeet mixed team qualification . 

Indian shooters Maheshwari Chauhan and Anant Naruka Singh is up against China's Yiting Jiang and Jianlin Lyu  in the bronze medal match.

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Lakshya Sen kept his calm and won the first set against Malaysia's Lee Zii Jia. From the start Sen was under control. 

After a total of 8 shots, Jiang and Lyu from China have a edge over India's Ananth and Maheshwari

After the end of second stage, India and China share equal points.

India 13 

China 13

Maheshwari and Naruka are crawling close to the Chinese duo 

China duo leads after the fourth stage against Indian shooters

India - 27

China - 28

Zii led for the majority of the set and despite Sen showing some promise in the middle stint, Zii took the set and it goes to a decider. 

After total of 40 shots, India is trailing China by one points

India - 37

China - 38

Lakshya Sen is struggling at the moment trailing by 5 points 

Chinese shooters Yiting Jiang and Jianlin Lyu wins the bronze medal against the Indian Shooters Maheshwari Chauhan and Naruka Singh 

Malaysia's Zii won bronze medal by defeating India's Lakshya Sen in men's singles badminton 

India's Nisha Dahiya outwrestles Tetiana Sova Rizhko of Ukraine to secure a quarterfinals berth in the women's freestyle 68kg 1/8 round.

Indian wrestler Nisha Dahiya is up against Sol Gum Pak of Democratic People's Republic Of Korea

Indian Nisha Dhiya takes a early lead 6 -1 against Sol Gum of Democratic People's Republic Of Korea