PV Sindhu And Satish Are India’s Big Medal Hopes On Sunday

New Delhi : The first Sunday of August is a very important day For India in the Tokyo Olympics Games 2020. Boxing and Badminton athletes can bring medals for the country. Today, PV Sindhu and Satish Kumar will be star attractions as Both of them can assure a Bronze medal for the country.

 In the morning at 9.30 am Boxer Satish Kumar will be in action in the Quarter Finals of the men's super Heavyweight (+91kg) category. Satish will have to put his all efforts to beat world champion Bakhodir Jalolov. This will be a really tough fight, but if Satish wins then he will assure at least a Bronze medal by reaching the Semi Finals, after that he will still enjoy the chance to change the color of the medal.

At 5pm, PV Sindhu will be up against He Bing Jiao of China, in the Bronze medal match of  Badminton Women’s singles. Both are losing Semi Finalists and will go for kill to win this match.

At 5.30 pm, Indian men’s Hockey team will play Great Britain in the Quarter Final. Indian team did not progress beyond the Quarter final for almost four decades. A Semi Final berth has eluded Indian Men's Hockey team since the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games where the team led by V Baskaran won the eighth Gold Medal for India. 

The Indian Men's Hockey Chief Coach expressed confidence in his team's ability to get the better of their opponent on Sunday. He said, “To be honest, facing any of the four European teams who have come directly from the Euro Championships was always going to be a difficult Quarter Final game, but I think it really matters on which one you get. But probably Great Britain are the ones we are comfortable with and very confident with. I think if we play the way we know that we can, then definitely victory is possible.” 

Great Britain have two wins, two draws and a loss from their Pool B encounters. Barring the disappointment against Australia (1-7) in their second game in the Pool A matches, India did well to finish second in their pool with substantial wins against New Zealand (3-2), Spain (3-0), Argentina (3-1) and Japan (5-3).

Now, Reid believes, India will need to carry forward the momentum from these wins into the Quarter Finals. “When you look at our performances in the last four-five games, apart from the Australian one which was a really disappointing result, the rest have been about building performance levels.”

Let’s hope for the best.

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