World No. 1 archer Deepika Kumari beat former World champion Ksenia Perova of the Russian Olympic Committee in a thrilling shoot-off to advance to the women’s individual quarter-finals of the Tokyo Olympics on Friday.
Locked 5-5 after the regulation five-setter, the 27-year-old Indian held her nerves in the shoot-off to deliver a perfect 10, hitting the bull’s eye, to topple the Russian, a team silver medallist at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Starting off the one-arrow shoot-off, the Russian crumbled under pressure as she misfired a seven while a composed Deepika sealed the issue 6-5 (10-7) without any fuss.
This was the first win from three matches for the three-time Olympian against the 2017 World champion as she became the first Indian to make the last-eight stage in an individual event of the archery competition in the Olympics.
- TOKYO OLYMPICS
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