Rio 2016 | Srikanth, Sindhu enter badminton quarters while boxer Vikas Krishan loses on Day 10

After Saina Nehwal’s loss, Kidambi Srikanth took the responsibility on his shoulders and stormed into the quarters of the men’s singles event at Rio by defeating Denmark’s Jan O Jorgensen 21-19, 21-19. Srikanth will face World No. 3 Lin Dan of China in the quarter-final match on August 17.

Jorgensen, who is world No.5, led the head-to-head record 2-1 going into the match, and started the match on a positive note taking a 3-1 lead in the first set. However, Srikanth bounced back quickly and with some good attacking play took the lead at 4-3. Srikanth, who was playing an attacking game at the start of his career, has changed his game in this Olympic year as he waited for his opportunities and attacked when the opportunity presented itself. He went into the break with an 11-9 lead and kept the lead from there on with some good body smashes against the Dane. Srikanth finally took the set 21-19 with a lovely smash that left Jorgensen stranded at mid-court.

Srikanth will now face World No.3 and 2008 and 2012 Olympics gold medallist Lin Dan in the quarters on Wednesday (August 17).

The Hyderabad lass started well in the second set as well, but Tai fought back to make it 6-6. Sindhu, needing to reassert herself, came up with some brilliant smashes to subdue Tai's challenge and go to 11-6 in one go. It was all downhill from there for the Taipei lady as she went on an error-making spree to let the Indian get away to 15-7. Tai fought back a bit, but Sindhu was not letting this set get away and finally won it 21-15 to enter the quarterfinal of the women's event.

Renjith Maheswary failed to qualify for the men’s triple jump final after managing a best jump of 16.13. His other two attempts were 15.80 and 15.99.

Seema Punia meanwhile failed to qualify for the finals of Women's discus. He throw could only garner a distance of 57.58m, leaving her ranked 20th amongst the competition.

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