Asian Games 2023: Indian archers make quarters in all six team events

Indian archers showed persistence in equal measure to storm into the quarterfinals in all the sixteam events of the Asian Games 2023The Indians played five team elimination rounds and dropped just one set on the way to their respective quarterfinal matchesIndia have got a bye into the quarters by virtue of topping the qualifications in the womens compound team eventFirst it was the topseeded compound mixed team of Ojas Deotale and Jyothi Surekha Vennam who showed the way as they dropped just one point from 16 arrows to eliminate UAEs Amna Alawadhi and Mohammed Binamro 159151The duo will take on formidable Malaysia No 8 seed in the quarters and thereafter they should have an easy draw till the finalAlso ReadA Dhawanless ODI World CupThen the Indian recurve mixed pair duo of Atanu Das and Ankita Bhakat were at their resilient best and overcome a firstset deficit to defeat Malayasia in a threesetterThe fifth seeded Indian duo of Das and Ankita rallied to beat Malaysian team of Syaqiera Binti Mashayikh and Muhamad Zarif Syahir Bin Zolkepeli 62 3938 3736 3933The Malaysia pair enjoyed a 20 lead with three 10s including one X in the first set But the experienced Indian duo bounced back with two 10s and went on to draw level as the Malaysians crumbled under pressureThe Malaysians hit the redring 8 once and went on to lose the second by a slender onepoint marginThere was more misery in store for the Malaysians who shot into the red ring thrice 888 while DasAnkita drilled in three perfect 10s en route to a sixpoint win in the third setThe Indian pair sealed the issue with three more 10s in the fourth set and set up a lasteight clash against the fourthseeded IndonesiansShould they overcome the Indonesian challenge the Indians may run into the topseeded Koreans in a potential semifinal clash in the Olympicqualifying eventThere are six quota spots available from the Asian Games the recurve mixed team winners and two archers ranked high in the individual eventsIn compound mens team event the secondseeded Indians trio of Ojas Abhishek Verma and Prathamesh Jawkar thrashed 15th seed Singapore Woon Teng NG Lee Chung Hee Alan Jun Hui Goh 235219The Indian triumvirate had a cautious start and had four 10s to take a 5855 leadBut the Indians came on their own from second end onwards and dropped just three points to rout their rivals by a 16point marginThe compound mens team is pitted against lowerranked Bhutan in the quarters and will likely face the third seeded Chinese Taipei in the semifinalsThe topseeded Indian womens compound team of Jyothi Aditi Swami and Parneet Kaur who got a bye into the quarters will open its campaign against ninthseeded Hong Kong who ousted Bangladesh 225218The Indian mens recurve team of Das Dhiraj and Tushar Shelke beat Hong Kongs Kwok Yin Chai Law Kwun Pok Lucien and Wn Chun Kit 60 5847 5749 5755 in a lopsided contestThe thirdseeded Indians who face lowerranked Mongolia No 11 in the lasteight have an easy draw till the final with Korea and Japan in the top halfThe unfancied womens recurve team of Ankita Bhakat Bhajan Kaur and Simranjeet Kaur also shone through ousting 12th seeded ThailandThe fifthseeded Indians won 51 4947 5454 5554 and are pitted against fourthseeded Japan in a tough quarterfinal matchupWith Agency Inputs