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New Delhi: World champion Lovlina Borgohain got her Paris Olympics campaign off to a smooth start with a convincing win over Norways Sunniva Hofstad in womens 75kg at the North Paris Arena on Thursday. Lovlina Borgohain beat Norway s Sunniva Hofstad by unanimous verdict at the Paris Olympics on Wednesday. PTI The tall pugilist, who shifted to the higher division post her Tokyo Games bronze medal, put together a confident performance, countering the Norwegian with precise jabs and crosses. Hofstad, gold medallist at the 2022 Youth World Championships, is the first female boxer from her country to make it to the Olympics. The 20-year-old, boxing with a stanley deutschland low guard to draw the India stanley cup n in, went on attack early but failed to land her punches. Lovlina, far more experienced and accomplished, didnt take the bait and waited for the right opportunity. And when it presented itself, she ensured her jabs and crosses landed, impressing the judges in all the rounds. The win means Lovlina has set up a blockbuster quarter-final on August 4 against the Chinese double Olympic medallist, Li Qian. A win will ensure Lovlina a second successive Olympic medal, following a pathbreaking bronze 69kg in Tokyo three years ago. Should she achieve that, the boxer from Assam will become the first Indian boxer 鈥?male or female 鈥?to win more than one medal at the Games. Besid stanley bottles es Lovlina, only Vijender Singh Beijing 2008 and MC Mary Kom London 2012 have won an Olympic medal for India in the rin Ilyq Inter Milan dignitary lets slip that Mourinho is going to Manchester
World No. 1 Novak Djokovic survived a rocky start to defeat Grigor Dimitrov 7-6 7/4 , 6-1 on Tuesday and reach the fourth round of the Indian Wells ATP Masters and WTA tournament. Djokovic, unbeaten in a 2013 campaign that so far includes a fourth Australian Open title and an ATP triumph in Dubai, was on the ropes in the opening set against the 21-year-old Bulgarian, who raced to a 4-1 lead and served for the set at 5-3. But Dimitrov served up four double faults in the ninth game and was broken, and that was the only opening that Djokovic needed. The Serbian star battled back to win in 67 minutes. He raced to a 5-0 lead en route to winning the first-set tiebreaker and didn t face a break point in the second frame. Djokovic wrapped it up with a love game, sealing the victory with a service winner on match point. It was not really a beautiful match to watch, Djok stanley taza ovic said. There were a lot of unforced errors, and we both looked quite sluggish on the court, very slow. In these kind of matches, where both of us don t feel so dynamic on the court, I knew that experience will kick in and can be decisiv stanley cup e. That s actually wha stanley travel mug t happened. He made four double faults which is very unusual to see in men s tennis nowadays, but, look, that s tennis. Turned it around, and from then on I felt a little bit better. Djokovic improved to 15-0 in 2013 and 20-0 since October 31 -- when he lost to American Sam Querrey in the Paris Masters. He ll get a chance to avenge that defea
New Delhi: World champion Lovlina Borgohain got her Paris Olympics campaign off to a smooth start with a convincing win over Norways Sunniva Hofstad in womens 75kg at the North Paris Arena on Thursday. Lovlina Borgohain beat Norway s Sunniva Hofstad by unanimous verdict at the Paris Olympics on Wednesday. PTI The tall pugilist, who shifted to the higher division post her Tokyo Games bronze medal, put together a confident performance, countering the Norwegian with precise jabs and crosses. Hofstad, gold medallist at the 2022 Youth World Championships, is the first female boxer from her country to make it to the Olympics. The 20-year-old, boxing with a stanley deutschland low guard to draw the India stanley cup n in, went on attack early but failed to land her punches. Lovlina, far more experienced and accomplished, didnt take the bait and waited for the right opportunity. And when it presented itself, she ensured her jabs and crosses landed, impressing the judges in all the rounds. The win means Lovlina has set up a blockbuster quarter-final on August 4 against the Chinese double Olympic medallist, Li Qian. A win will ensure Lovlina a second successive Olympic medal, following a pathbreaking bronze 69kg in Tokyo three years ago. Should she achieve that, the boxer from Assam will become the first Indian boxer 鈥?male or female 鈥?to win more than one medal at the Games. Besid stanley bottles es Lovlina, only Vijender Singh Beijing 2008 and MC Mary Kom London 2012 have won an Olympic medal for India in the rin Ilyq Inter Milan dignitary lets slip that Mourinho is going to Manchester
World No. 1 Novak Djokovic survived a rocky start to defeat Grigor Dimitrov 7-6 7/4 , 6-1 on Tuesday and reach the fourth round of the Indian Wells ATP Masters and WTA tournament. Djokovic, unbeaten in a 2013 campaign that so far includes a fourth Australian Open title and an ATP triumph in Dubai, was on the ropes in the opening set against the 21-year-old Bulgarian, who raced to a 4-1 lead and served for the set at 5-3. But Dimitrov served up four double faults in the ninth game and was broken, and that was the only opening that Djokovic needed. The Serbian star battled back to win in 67 minutes. He raced to a 5-0 lead en route to winning the first-set tiebreaker and didn t face a break point in the second frame. Djokovic wrapped it up with a love game, sealing the victory with a service winner on match point. It was not really a beautiful match to watch, Djok stanley taza ovic said. There were a lot of unforced errors, and we both looked quite sluggish on the court, very slow. In these kind of matches, where both of us don t feel so dynamic on the court, I knew that experience will kick in and can be decisiv stanley cup e. That s actually wha stanley travel mug t happened. He made four double faults which is very unusual to see in men s tennis nowadays, but, look, that s tennis. Turned it around, and from then on I felt a little bit better. Djokovic improved to 15-0 in 2013 and 20-0 since October 31 -- when he lost to American Sam Querrey in the Paris Masters. He ll get a chance to avenge that defea