Indian archers Rahul, Deepika enter recurve Q-F

New Delhi, October 5, 2010: Indian top seeds Rahul Banerjee and Deepika Kumari led most of the favourites into the quarterfinals of their respective recurve sections of the Commonwealth Games archery competition at the Yamuna Sports Complex here.

But the news from the compound section was not encouraging as all the Indian archers lost except teenager Chittibomma Jignas who made it to the pre-quarterfinals. He will meet S.H. Cilliers next.

Banerjee, in red hot form, will be challenged by Mat Masonwells of Canada for a place in the semifinals while Jayanta Talukdar will clash with veteran Simon Terry of England. Tarundeep Rai, seeded 13th, fell to Cheng Chu Sian of Malaysia 4-0.

Deepika will meet Alexandra Feeney of Australia in the quarterfinals while Dola, the second seed will play 10th ranked Alan MacDougall of Canada. Laishram Bombayla Devi fell to Alexandra in the earlier round 2-4.

On the second day of the archery competition, only individual elimination rounds were gone through.

Press release from Indian Archery Association