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Manas is again playing in qualifying of M25 at Santa Margherita di Pula, Italy. Today, he won Q1 against Matteo Mesaglio (ITA,NR) 75 61.

Manas has a tough against top seed in qualies, Luigi Sorrentino (ITA,860) in final qualifying round.

This also means if Manu or Esha are sent for both pistol events and we repurpose the quota spot, we could have 2 mixed skeet teams. I also thought of the same ( exchange womens pistol for mens skeet) but found that quota exchange is allowed only within same gender. So, we cannot have second shooter...

She was unranked before this World Cup. At least not in top 100. So not sure what will her ranking be. I guess she only has one shot at qualifying that is in the comming qualifier tournament. Does she need to finish in top 4? Team ranking was 8th before this and they lost in pqf. So don't expect it...

Damn, for the first time in his career, RamK gets a 4-5 weeks break and than gets injured in the first week after that just when his singles game is looking up.

Hope his ankle gets better in the subsequent weeks on this tour.

Maheshwari Chauhan made it to the final with 121.

Final coming up shortly. I think 2 of the 6 shooters are quota ineligible ( China and Chile).. So, Maheshwari has to finish ahead of 2 out of other 4.

Deepika did beat 2 of the 3 Koreans who will be at Paris olympics and lost to a third Korean who was Asian Games champion. This is very good considering how we have fared against Koreans in the past. Still from one tournament we cannot say she has a medal chance at Paris. First she has to qualify wh...

@Sinhombre, if you are updating Olympics projections, need to upgrade mens archery team as they beat powerhouse Korea in Shanghai world cup and are almost sure to qualify now for Paris.

Yes, we easily beat Singapore 4-1 to make it to the QF.

20 year Ishrani Baruah also looks a talented youngster apart from Anmol, Tanvi Sharma and Unnati Hooda.

Our mens recurve team stun Korean team which consisted of those who were part of Olympic gold medal winning team 5-1 to win gold at Shanghai world Cup. Apart from gold, it also raises our ranking points and we are now 12 points ahead of the other teams who have not qualified yet for Paris Olympics. ...

Just saw that W100 Gufu, Japan qualifying starts only on Monday. So, Rutuja should be able to make it there safely.

Btw, in live rankings, Rutuja moves ahead of Ankita as India #2 in doubles - Rutuja at #225 and Ankita at #235. Prarthana is India #1 at #150.

A nice interview by Nikhil Naz that just came up a few hours ago. I loved it. It seems to be from this week, after he decided to skip the next couple of weeks. He did not say he was going to Germany, but he was still waiting for the passport to come from the UK embassy/HC but said "maybe Rome;...

Our men too start with an easy 4-1 win against Thailand only loss being Prannoy losing to Kunlavut in the first match. Both SatChi and Lakshya were stretched to 3 games though. Women play Singapore tomorrow in a key match which will decide if we can go thru to at least QF which will be a good achiev...

Yes, we have seen once it gets included in olympics, others will start doing much better than us.

Our womems team beat Canada 4-1 in first match with excellent sin by Ashmita Chaliha over Michelle Lee in first singles.

4 golds and a silver for us in compound archery for us in Shanghai world Cup. Can we somehow get compound archery in Olympics?

Recurve men and Deepika Kumari have their matches tomorrow.