Indian hopes of a first boxing medal at the Olympics were battered as boxer Jitender Kumar lost to Russian Georgy Balakshin in the men’s 51 kg flyweight quarter-finals in Beijing.
Balakshin defeated Jitender 15-11 in a one-sided contest as the Indian didn’t pose much threat against his mighty opponent.
Earlier on Saturday, Jitender swamped his Uzbek counterpart […]
21 year-old Jitender Kumar entered the quarter-finals of the boxing competition at the Olympics in Beijing on Saturday by out-playing Uzbek Tulashboy Doniyorov to set up a tough quarter-final with three-time European champion Georgy Balakshin of Russia in 51kg category .
The Haryana boxer, who is on his maiden Olympic trip, scored a 13-6 victory to […]
The third round women’s doubles round turned good for the Indian-American pair of Sania Mirza and Bethanie Mattek as they beat the Uzbek-Belarussian pair of Akgul Amanmuradova and Darya Kustova. The 13th seeded Indo-American pair was leading 4-6, 6-4, 2-0 when their opponents forfeit the match.
Sania Mirza and Bethanie Mattek will now play American sisters […]