Tokyo Olympics: Archer Atanu Das makes it to pre-quarterfinals in a thriller

Das and Oh had a neck-to-neck contest with three tied sets in the game. First set went to Oh decisively with 26-25 in his favour. The next two sets were identical in final scores and in the archers' points. Atanu Das scored 9s in both the sets of three arrows each and Jinhyek Oh scored an 8,9 and 10 in both the sets, thereby tieing both sets with 27-27. The set points at that juncture still favoured the Korean as he had a 4-2 advantage over Atanu Das.

Jinhyek flunked in the fourth set losing the most important two points shooting a chaffy 7 and 6 to lose the set to Atanu 22-27. Atanu finding his 10 back in the fourth set looked better in the fifth to score a 10,9 and a 9, with Oh once again shooting similar numbers to that of the Indian, the match witnessed a third tie resulting in a shoot-off finish.

Jinhyek Oh shot a 9 and Atanu Das responded with a perfect-10 to win the contest and progress to the 1/8 elimination round.

Atanu defeated Chinese Taipei's Yu Cheng Deng quite masterfully with 6-4 set points in the 1/32 elimination round match held early in the day.

With Pravin Jadhav and Tarundeep Rai eliminated, it is up to the real-life couple Atanu Das and Deepika Kumari to keep India's archery medal hopes alive in their respective individual matches.

Deepika will have her pre-quarterfinals match on Friday against Russia's Perova and Atanu will face-off against Japan's Furukawa on Saturday.

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