After a disappointing Sunday (highlighted here), India would be looking to get back on track with some decent performances on Monday. There's a lot of action around, which we'll cover wall-to-wall in the blog below:
Swimming - Sajan Prakash became the second Indian to swim in the Category A heat as he finished fourth in the men's 200 butterfly heat 2 with a time of 1:57.22. He finished 24th overall. His next match will be on July 29 in the 100m butterfly.
The first was Srihari Nataraja, who swam the 100m backstroke Heat 3 on Sunday.
Fencing - Bhavani Devi easily beat Tunisia's Nadia Ben Azizi in the table of 64, but against fourth-seeded Manon Brunet of France in the table of 32, the Indian lost 15-7, seeded 29, to her Tokyo The Olympic campaign ended.
Read: Away from Tokyo glamor, Bhavani Devi's fenced world
Archery - Indian men's team of Atanu Das, Praveen Jadhav and Tarundeep Rai crashed out after losing 0-6 to top seed South Korea in the quarter-finals.
Table Tennis - Achanta Sharath d. Portugal's Tiago Apollonia 2-11, 11-8, 11-5, 9-11, 11-6, 11-9 to enter the third round, while Manika Batra 8-11, 2-11, 5-11 , lost by 7-. 11. Sutirtha Mukherjee lost to Yu Fu of Portugal 3-11, 3-11, 5-11, 5-11 in the third round to Sofia Polkanova of Austria.
Tennis - Sumit Nagal lost to Daniil Medvedev of ROC 2-6, 1-6.
Badminton - Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy suffered a 13-21, 12-21 loss to the world No. 1 team of Indonesia's Marcus Fernaldi Gideon and Kevin Sanjay Sukamuljo, which extended their winning record to 0-9 against Indonesia. extended to Since it is the group stage and the Indians have won their first match, they still have a chance to reach the knockouts.
Sailing - Vishnu Saravanan finished 20th in Race 3 (out of 10 races) and 24th in Men's One Person Dinghy - Laser Category. He is currently ranked 25th overall.
In the Women's One Man Dinghy - Laser Radial category, Nethra Kumanan finished 15th in Race 3 and 40th in Race 4 (out of 10 races). He is currently ranked 28th overall.
Skeet Shooting - Angad Vir Singh Bajwa and Mairaj Ahmed Khan finished 18th and 25th respectively on the second day of qualification, failing to make it to the finals.
Boxing - Ashish Kumar made a first round exit in the men's middle weight category. He lost 5-0 to Erbicke Tuheta of China.