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Badminton Saina Nehwal entered the quarter finals of the women’s badminton championship on Monday in the Beijing Olympic games. This news has cheered the Indians. In the pre-quarterfinals she stunned Hong Kong’s player Chen Wang who is ranked fourth in the world. She defeated her 21-19, 11-21, 21-11 in the match. But other Indians could not do well in their respective games as most of them disappointed the nation with their poor performance. Shuttler Anup Sridhar’s Olympic campaign ended in the second round as he was defeated by Shoji Sato of Japan in straight sets. It was a disappointing show by the Indian as his campaign ended only in 37 minuted.

Archers Both the Indians Dola Banerjee and L Bombayla Devi could not perform well in the deciding moments of women’s individual archery events. They crashed out of the event as they lost their respective opening matches played on Tuesday. Both gave a tough resistance to their opponents. Dola was defeated by Canada’s Marie-Pier Beaudet and Bombayla lost to Poland’s Iwona Marcinkiewicz. Both the players were neck-to-neck with their rivals but lost only in the deciding shots. Earlier, Indian trio of L Bombayla Devi, Dola Banerjee and Pranitha Vardhineni had lost to China in women’s team event at Olympics on Sunday.

Rathore But worst was yet to happen. Indian camp was stunned to hear the news of Rathore’s failure to qualify in the double trap final. He shot 131 targets that placed him at the 15^th position. But he could not qualify for the final as top six shooters had made it to the final. It must be noted that he is the silver medalist of the Athens Olympic games in the same event and was hot favorite to win a medal. He told reporters that “I did not read the targets too well and paid the price.”

Boxers Jitender Kumar stormed into the fly weight pre-quarterfinals boxing by defeating the Turkish Boxer Ulas Furkan Memis in less than three rounds. It was a lopsided match as the Indian was leading in the first round by 5-0 and in the second by 9-2. He remained aggressive throughout the match and easily evaded Memis’ every challenge. Another Indian boxer who has qualified for the pre-quarterfinals is Vijender who has qualified in the middle weight category.

In the Lightweight men’s double sculls heats at the Olympics Indian due of rowers of Devender Kumar Khandwal and Manjeet Singh finished last as they were 21 seconds behind the winners. Meanwhile, 2006’s Melbourne Commonwealth Games’ ‘Gold finger’ Samaresh Jung failed to qualify for the final of 50m pistol event on Tuesday.