Olympic Games Paris 2024 Day 2: Manu Bhaker Clinches Shooting Bronze, Rafael Nadal Sets Up Clash vs Novak Djokovic

Paris Olympics 2024: Thank you

With that we come to the end of this day for Indians. Manu Bhaker’s bronze medal was the highlight of the day for India. Nikhat Zareen (boxing) and PV Sindhu (badminton) won their matches too. However, Indian women’s archery team lost in the quarter-finals.

Paris Olympics 2024 Live: Harmeet Desai loses

India’s Harmeet Desai suffered a 0-4 loss against world no. 5 Felix Lebrun of France in the second round of the men’s singles table tennis competition, ending his maiden Olympic campaign here on Sunday.

Paris Olympics 2024 Live: Table tennis action coming up next

Meanwhile, Rohan Bopanna/N Sriram Balaji’s match has been cancelled due to rain. The only Indian left today to compete is table tennis star Harmeet Desai who will face France’s Felix LeBrun.

Paris Olympics 2024 Live: Nadal Terms Djokovic Favourite

“Situations are completely different for him, for me. He’s being very competitive. I was not being very competitive for the last two years, so in that case, I think probably he is the clear favourite,” said Nadal, who holds an 8-2 head-to-head advantage over the Serb at Roland Garros.

“I’m going to try my best to bring the best to the court and then let’s see how far I can go and how many problems I can create for him.”

Paris Olympics 2024 Live: Nadal vs Djokovic

Rafael Nadal insists Novak Djokovic will be the favourite when they clash at the Paris Olympics, after the Spaniard battled to victory over Marton Fucsovics in the first round on Sunday. Nadal had left his participation in the singles in doubt until the last minute because of a thigh injury, and was made to work hard for his 6-1, 4-6, 6-4 victory.

Paris Olympics 2024 Live: Nadal To Face Djokovic

Rafael Nadal set up an Olympic Games blockbuster against old rival Novak Djokovic on Sunday, justifying his last-minute decision to play despite injury concerns. Nadal, who has won 14 of his 22 Grand Slam titles at Roland Garros, defeated Marton Fucsovics 6-1, 4-6, 6-4 in the first round despite sporting strapping on his injured right thigh.

Paris Olympics 2024 Live: Prannoy wins

HS Prannoy win the second game 21-12 and hence the match in straight games. Both Indian shuttlers – PV Sindhu, HS Prannoy – have won today.

Paris Olympics 2024 Live: Nadal Loses Second set

On the tennis court. Nadal has lost the second set against Fucsovics 4-6. The match will now be decided in the third set.

Olympics 2024: Prannoy in lead

Prannoy has made a brilliant comeback and has taken the first game 21-18. In the second game, Prannoy has taken a 7-3 lead.

Paris Olympics 2024 Live: Prannoy under pressure

13th seed HS Prannoy is facing a good challenge from his German rival. He is trailing 15-12. He has the ability to comeback.

Paris Olympics 2024 Live: Nadal also in action

Meanwhile, Rafael Nadal is having an interesting encounter against Hungary’s Marton Fucsovics. After the Spanish great won the first set 6-1,  he trailed 5-2 at one point. But, now Nadal have broken him and is serving to level the set.

Paris Olympics 2024 Live: Prannoy’s match starts

Prannoy’s match ahs started and the Indian shuttler is level at 5-5 with his German opponent. He is looking in good touch.

Paris Olympics 2024 Live: Prannoy in action

HS Prannoy’s match against Germany’s Fabian Roth will start anytime soon. Along with Lakshya Sen, Prannoy is one of the big medal hope for India

Paris Olympics 2024 Live: Remaining action

After this the events that remain for India are:

TABLE-TENNIS

Harmeet Desai vs Lebrun Felix (FRA)

Paris Olympics 2024 Live, Tennis: Nagal loses

Meanwhile, in tennis, Sumit Nagal lost to France’s Corentin Moutet 2-6, 6-2, 5-7. Later in the day, Rohan Bopanna/N Sriram Balaji will take to France’s Gael Monfils/Edouard Roger-Vasselin

Paris Olympics 2024 Live, Archery: Third set

The third sets starts. India shoots 4-10-8 in the first half. Netherlands shoots 10-10-9

The second half: India shoots 8-8-10; Netherlands shoots 9-9-7

It means India are out of women’s archery team event from the quarter-finals

Paris Olympics 2024 Live, Archery: India In Trouble

The second set starts – India shoots 10-10-8. Netherlands shoots 8*-9-8.

In the second half – India shoots 6-9-6. Netherlands shoots 9-9-9

Paris Olympics 2024 Live, Archery: India Trail

Netherlands win the first set 52-51. The start was poor by India with two sevens out of the first three. That ultimately proved to be the differentiator as Netherlands took a lead.

Paris Olympics 2024 Live, Archery: The quarter-final starts!

The India vs Netherlands archery Quarter-final is underway. India are being represented Deepika Kumari, Ankita Bhakat and Bhajan Kaur.

Paris Olympics 2024 Live, Swimming: Swimmers exit

Bad news from  the pool. India’s swimming campaign at the Paris Olympics came to an end with both Srihari Nataraj and Dhinidhi Desinghu failing to progress to the semifinals of their respective events.

Nataraj finished joint-second in the slower heat with a timing of 55.01s but the 23-year-old was 33rd in the overall standing for the 100m men’s backstroke event. The 16 fastest swimmers from the heats qualify to the semifinals.

The performance was far from Nataraj’s personal best of 53.77s and was considerably slower than his season best time of 54.68s.

Paris Olympics 2024 Live, Table Tennis: Manika advances!

Manika Batra advances to the R32 of women’s singles after beating Anna Hursey 4-1. Here’s the winning moment:

Paris Olympics 2024 Live, Tennis: Nagal levels it up!

Sumit Nagal wins the second set 6-2 and levels the match against France’s Corentin Moutet. We are off to the deciding set.

Paris Olympics 2024 Live, Tennis: Can Sumit Nagal turn it around?

Sumit Nagal, down by a set against Corentin Moutet, has broken the Frenchman’s serve. He now leads 4-2 in the second set.

Paris Olympics 2024 Live, Table Tennis: Manika leads 2-0!

Paris Olympics 2024 Live, Table Tennis: Manika wins first game!

India’s Manika Batra has won the opening game 11-8 to get off to a good start against Anna Hursey in their women’s singles R64 clash.

Paris Olympics 2024 Live, Table Tennis: Manika Batra in action!

Paddler Manika Batra is action in women’s singles table tennis. She takes on Great Britain’s Anna Hursey.

Paris Olympics 2024 Live, Boxing: Here’s what Manu said!

“It was a long due medal for India. I was merely a mode to do it. India deserves even more medals. We are looking forward to (winning) as many medals as posssible this time. Personally for me the feeling is surreal. I put in a lot of effort. Even till the last shot I was fighting with all energy that I had. This is a bronze. Maybe better next time,” Manu Bhaker said after the win.

Paris Olympics 2024 Live, Boxing: Nikhat Zareen wins her opening bout!

Two-time world champion Nikhat Zareen powered into the women’s 50kg Olympics’ pre-quarterfinals with a hard-fought victory over Germany’s Maxi Karina Kloetzer. The 28-year-old, who is unseeded, prevailed by a 5-0 unanimous decision win against her German opponent.

Paris Olympics 2024 Live: Job not done, feels Manu Bhaker!

After winning the medal, Manu Bhaker expressed her delight. However, she insisted that the job is not done as she wants to do better in the other disciplines. She will be in action tomorrown in the Mixed 10m Air Pistol, as well as the Women’s 25m Pistol on August 2.

Paris Olympics 2024 Live: Manu Bhaker creates history!

Manu shot 221.7 in the final to become the first Indian women’s athlete to win a medal in shooting. Meanwhile, South Korea’s Oh Ye Jin wins the gold with an Olympic record score of 243.2 points. Another Korean Ki Yejin takes the silver with 241.3 points.

Paris Olympics 2024 Live: Sharath Kamal goes down!

Heartbreaking loss for Achanta Sharath Kamal as he crashes out in Round of 64. He goes down to Slovenia’s Deni Kozul in a seven-game thriller

Paris Olympics 2024 Live: Redemption story!

Paris Olympics 2024 Live: More medal hope for India as Arjun Babuta reaches final!

Paris Olympics 2024 Live: Medal alert!

Shooter Manu Bhaker clinches India’s first medal in Paris Olympics, strikes bronze in Women’s 10m Air Pistol final

Paris Olympics 2024 Live: Manu Bhaker in 2nd position ahead of final round!

Paris Olympics 2024 Live: Manu one step closer to a medal!

Manu Bhaker is in top 4. She is currently 0.4 points behind Korea Yeji Kim, who is in the second spot.

Paris Olympics 2024 Live: Tokyo bronze medallist crashes out!

Ranxin Jiang, who won the bronze medal in Tokyo, is out of contention. She finishes sixth. Manu Bhaker has managed to held on to that 3rd spot

Paris Olympics 2024 Live: Manu staying alive!

Paris Olympics 2024 Live: Manu lies 3rd with 15 shots left!

Manu Bhaker currently lies 3rd after Round 1.

Paris Olympics 2024 Live: Manu Bhaker off to a bright start!

Manu Bhaker is currently in the medal contention with an aggregate of 70.8.