Archery Ranking Round - Results

As the Archery Ranking Round took off at Lords Cricket Ground in London, spectators around the area started pouring, but much to their dismay they were not allowed inside. There was no television coverage. 

In the Men category, India finished 12th and has to play Japan in the knock out stage to clash with USA in the quarterfinals. India's Tarundeep Rai, Rahul Banerjee and Jayanta Talukdar finished 31st, 46th and 53rd respectively. Korea's Hyun Im Dong scored a mamoth 699 points taking their team total to a World Record 2087 points. 

In the Women section, however, there was some pride restored with Deepika Kumari finishing 8th in the individual section and taking the team to the 9th rank. Bombayla Devi Lashram finished 22nd in the individual and Chekrovolu Swuro finishing a disappointing 50th rank. Deepika started on a low rank but quickly made amends as the rounds progressed.

Will India get a taste of the ever elusive yellow metal?

Join me as I bring in more news...

:-Rakesh S Ranbir

Archery Schedule - Men and Women

Indian Men and Women archers start their campaign tomorrow at the Lords Cricket Ground. Pitted against the best archers of the world, Indian men will have to fight tooth and nail to get into the quarter finals. India's best bet in Men, Jayanta Talukdar and Tarundeep Rai are ranked 19th and 18th respectively. World No.1, India's Deepika Kumari should find it easy getting into the quarter final round. For a podium finish, she will have a tough competition from the Korean, Bae Bo Ki and Chinese, Yuting Fang, currently ranked no.2 and 3 respectively.

In the team competition, however, Indian will face stiff competition from the likes of USA, France and Korea.

WOMEN

MEN

All the best Team India!!!!!

Rakesh S Ranbir

Badminton Schedule - Group Stage

Indians start their campaign with the mixed doubles pair of Jwala Gutta and V.Diju taking on the World No.3 and All England Champion pair of Indonesia, Liliyana Natsir and Tantowi Ahamd. It would be a tough one for the Indians as the Indonesian pair have won two super series premier title earlier this year and on an upbeat to reign their supremacy with a podium finish. Kashyap should have it easy against his Belgian opponent while Saina will have to wait for one more day to demonstrate her prowess. 

Go India Go!!!!

:-Rakesh S Ranbir

Badminton Grouping and Schedule in XXX Olympics

With less than a week remaining, Live Draw was conducted at the Main Press Center of the Olympic Park in London this morning at 10. Saina Nehwal, India's biggest medal prospect is in Group E along with Sabrina Jaquet of Switzerland and 55th rank Lianne Tan of Belgium. India's Kashyap Parupalli is placed in Group D along with world No.10 Nguyen Tien Minh of Vietnam and Tan Yuhan of Belgium. Kashyap has a 2-3 win-loss record against Minh.

London 2012 Olympic Games Draw: Men's Singles

(Groups A to H are the draw's top half, Groups I to P are the draw's bottom half)

Group A Lee Chong Wei (1) Ville Lang	Group B Simon Santoso (9) Michael Lachnsteiner Raul Must	Group C Kenichi Tago (8) Niluka Karunaratne	Group D Nguyen Tien Minh (10) Kashyap Parupalli Tan Yuhan
Group E Chen Long (3) Boonsak Ponsana	Group F Wong Wing Ki (16) Edwin Ekiring Brice Leverdez	Group G Peter Gade (5) Pedro Martins	Group H Son Wan Ho (13) Vladimir Ivanov Hsu Jen Hao
Group I Jan O Jorgensen (12) Misha Zilberman Derek Wong	Group J Lee Hyun Il (7) Rodrigo Pacheco Carrillo	Group K Marc Zwiebler (14) Mohamed Ajfan Rasheed Dymtro Zavadsky	Group L Chen Jin (4) Wacha Przemyslaw
Group M Rajiv Ouseph (15) Henri Hurskainen Kevin Cordon	Group N Sho Sasaki (6) Virgil Soeroredjo	Group O Taufik Hidayat (11) Pablo Abian Petr Koukal	Group P Lin Dan (2) Scott Evans

Women's Singles

(Groups A to H are the draw's top half, Groups I to P are the draw's bottom half)

Group A Wang Yihan (1) Michelle Li	Group B Bae Yeon Ju (11) Tee Jing Yi Agnese Allegrini	Group C Cheng Shao Chieh (7) Neslihan Yigit Simone Prutsch	Group D Gu Juan (13) Victoria Na Monika Fasungova
Group E Saina Nehwal (4) Sabrina Jaquet Lianne Tan	Group F Yao Jie (14) Ragna Ingolfdottir Akvil Stapusaityte	Group G Tine Baun (5) Anastasia Prokopenko Kamila Augustyn	Group H Sayaka Sato (12) Susan Egelstaff Maja Tvrdy
Group I Pi Hongyan (16) Hadia Hosny Chloe Magee	Group J Sung Ji Hyun (8) Yip Pui Yin Sara B Kvaerno	Group K Tai Tzu Ying (10) Anu Nieminen Victoria Montero	Group L Li Xuerui (3) Carolina Marin Claudia Rivero
Group M Ratchanok Intanon (9) Thilini Jayasinghe Telma Santos	Group N Juliane Schenk (6) Larisa Griga Kristina Gavnholt	Group O Petya Nedelcheva (15) Adrianti Firdasari Alesia Zaitsava	Group P Wang Xin (2) Rena Wang

 Men's Doubles

Group A Cai Yun / Fu Haifeng (1) Fang Chieh Min / Lee Sheng Mu Ross Smith / Glenn Warfe Ingo Kindervater / Johannes Schoettler	Group B Ko Sung Hyun / Yoo Yeong Seong (4) Bodin Issara / Maneepong Jongjit Adam Cwalina / Michal Logosz Mohammad Ahsan / Bona Septano
Group C Mathias Boe / Carsten Mogensen (3) Chai Biao / Guo Zhendong Dorian Lance James / Willem Viljoen Vladimir Ivanov / Ivan Sozonov	Group D Chung Jae Sung/Lee Yong Dae (2) Howard Bach / Tony Gunawan Naoki Kawamae / Shoji Sato Koo Kien Keat / Tan Boon Heong

 

Women's Doubles

Group A Wang Xiaoli / Yu Yang (1) Jung Kyung Eun / Kim Ha Na Valeri Sorokina / Nina Vislova Alex Bruce / Michelle Li	Group B Mizuki Fujii / Reika Kakiiwa (4) Jwala Gutta / Ashwini Ponnappa Cheng Wen Hsing / Chien Yu Chin Shinta Sari Mulia / Yao Lei
Group C Ha Jung Eun / Kim Min Jung (3) Leanne Choo / Renuga Veeran Michelle Edwards / Annari Viljoen Meiliana Juahari / Greysia Polii	Group D Tian Qing / Zhao Yunlei (2) Miyuki Maeda / Satoko Suetsuna  Christinna Pedersen / Kamila Rytter Juhl Poon Lok Yan / Tse Suet Ying

London 2012 Olympic Games Draw: Mixed Doubles

Group A Zhang Nan / Zhao Yunlei (1) Alexandr Nikolaenko / Valeri Sorokina Michael Fuchs / Birgit Michels Chris Adcock / Imogen Bankier	Group B Joachim Fischer / Christinna Pedersen (4) Shintaro Ikeda / Shiota Reiko Toby Ng / Grace Gao Robort Mateusiak / Nadiezda Zieba
Group C Tontowi Ahmad / Liliyana Natsir (3)  Thomas Laybourn / Kamilla Rytter Juhl Lee Yong Dae / Ha Jung Eun Viju D / Jwala Gutta	Group D Xu Chen / Ma Jin (2) S Prapakamol / S Thoungthongkam Chan Peng Soon / Goh Liu Ying Chen Hung Ling / Cheng Wan Hsing

In the singles, only the winner of each group will qualify for the Round of 16: [A vs B, C vs D] [E vs F, G vs H] [I vs J, K vs L] [M vs N, O vs P]. The two winners of the two ties in each [ ] will then face-off in the quarter-finals.

In the doubles, the top two of each group will qualify for the quarter-finals. And in the doubles quarter-finals, the top half of the draw will have A1 vs C2 and B1 vs D2, while bottom half of the draw will have A2 vs C1 and B2 vs D1.

The seedings are given within brackets () next to the player’s name.

Enjoy as I bring in the schedule of play by 26th of July!!

:-Rakesh S Ranbir

30th Olympiad, London: Men Hockey Schedule

Here is the complete Schedule of Men Field Hockey in the XXX Olympiad, London.

Games of the XXX Olympiad

Men, London (GBR) : 30 July – 11 August 2012

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Participating Teams Pool A Pool B Australia Germany Great Britain Netherlands Spain Korea Pakistan New Zealand Argentina India South Africa Belgium
Date Match # Pool Time Match Monday 30 July M1 B 8:30 Korea v New Zealand M2 A 10:45 Australia v South Africa M3 A 13:45 Spain v Pakistan M4 B 16:00 Netherlands v India M5 A 19:00 Great Britain v Argentina M6 B 21:15 Germany v Belgium Wednesday 1 August M7 A 8:30 Spain v Australia M8 B 10:45 Belgium v Netherlands M9 B 13:45 New Zealand v India M10 A 16:00 South Africa v Great Britain M11 A 19:00 Pakistan v Argentina M12 B 21:15 Korea v Germany Friday 3 August M13 A 8:30 Australia v Argentina M14 B 10:45 Netherlands v New Zealand M15 B 13:45 Germany v India M16 A 16:00 Great Britain v Pakistan M17 A 19:00 South Africa v Spain M18 B 21:15 Belgium v Korea Sunday 5 August M19 B 8:30 New Zealand v Belgium M20 A 10:45 Pakistan v South Africa M21 B 13:45 India v Korea M22 B 16:00 Netherlands v Germany M23 A 19:00 Great Britain v Australia M24 A 21:15 Argentina v Spain Tuesday 7 August M25 A 8:30 Australia v Pakistan M26 B 10:45 Korea v Netherlands M27 A 13:45 Argentina v South Africa M28 B 16:00 India v Belgium M29 A 19:00 Spain v Great Britain M30 B 21:15 Germany v New Zealand
Sit back and enjoy!!! :- Rakesh S Ranbir