Deepika Kumari, Pravin Jadhav mixed team bow out of Tokyo Olympics archery

The Indian archery mixed team of Deepika Kumari and Pravin Jadhav was knocked out in the quarter-final at the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday.

The Indian duo lost 6-2 to the Korean pair of An San and Kim Je Deok at the Yumenoshima Park Archery Field.

The top-seeded Koreans dominated from the beginning, winning the first set 35-32 as the Indians shot two 8s and a low 7.

In the second set, Pravin Jadhav shot two perfect 10s in his two attempts but an 8 from Deepika meant the Koreans took the set by one point 38-37 and extended their lead to 4-0.

The Indian archers, however, mounted a comeback in the third set after An San and Kim Je Deok failed to score 19 off their last two shots.

Korea’s lead was cut down to 4-2.

However, Deepika and Pravin failed to sustain the momentum and went down in the fourth. They could not recover from the 6 by Pravin in his first shot and lost the set 36-33, thus putting an end to their mixed team campaign in Tokyo.

Earlier in the day, the Indians had come back from a set down to defeat the Chinese Taipei pair of Lin Chia-En and Tang Chin-Chun 5-3 in the first round.

The Koreans, on the other hand, had knocked out Bangladesh 6-0 in the opening round. They will now face Mexico in the semi-final.

Indian archers are still in contention in the men’s individual and team events and the women’s individual