Indian Archer Atanu Das Moves To Next Round After Defeating Chinese Yu-Cheng Dang By 6-4

Tokyo: Indian archer Atanu Das progressed to the next round of the men’s individual archery event after defeating Chinese Taipei’s Yu-Cheng Dang in the ongoing Tokyo 2020 Olympics here at Yumenoshima Ranking Field on Thursday. Das defeated Yu-Cheng Dang 6-4 in the 1/64 eliminations round. Atanu Das took the lead in the match, helped by a 10 in his first arrow. Deng replied with an 8-9-9.

A similar story unfolded in Set 2 but for Taipei’s archer who leveled the match) against Das. The next set went to Indian who regained the lead by shooting 9-10-9 to which Dang replied with a very poor 7 in the last arrow.

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The fourth set went back and forth but it was Yu-Cheng who forced the match into the decider. In the final set, Chinese Taipei’s Yu-Cheng Dang shot a 7 on his last arrow again which comfortably handed the match to Indian. Atanu will now play in the 1/32 eliminations round.

On Wednesday, Indian archer Deepika Kumari defeated USA’s Jennifer Mucino

Fernandez in the ongoing Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The India archer defeated her opponent from the US 6-4 in the 1/16 eliminations round Earlier in the day, Tarundeep Rai and Pravin Jadhav crashed out of men’s individual

archery after losing in the 1/16 eliminations round India’s mixed team of Deepika Kumari and Pravin Jadhav on Saturday had lost their quarter-final clash of the Archery Mixed Team event: South Korea’s An San and Kim Je Deok defeated the Indian pair 6-2 in the quarterfinals