Indians on Wednesday

8226; The fourth-seeded pair of Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi streamrolled Wayne Black and Kevin Ullyett of Zimbabwe 6-4, 6-4 to enter t...

8226; The fourth-seeded pair of Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi streamrolled Wayne Black and Kevin Ullyett of Zimbabwe 6-4, 6-4 to enter the semifinals.

8226; India8217;s athletic campaign began on a dismal note with Bahadur Singh fouling all his attempts to end up without logging a distance to his name in shot put qualifiers.

8226; Shikha Tandon found herself out of depth and bowed out in Heat 2 of the 100m freestyle event. She finished seventh clocking 59.70s.

8226; Archer Reena Kumari8217;s campaign came to an end in the quarter-finals of the 72-arrow, six-series individual event. The 20-year-old went down 148-166 to Chi Shu Yuan Chinese Taipei.

8226; Sydney Games bronze medallist Karnam Malleswari did not complete a single lift in the snatch section of the 63kg women8217;s weightlifting event, while compatriot Pratima Kumari did not figure in the starting list

8226; Sailors Malav Shroff and Sumeet Patel fared better than their Day 1 performance in the 49er class. In Race 3 they finished 18th and in Race 4 they managed a 15th place. Overall they are placed 15th, after four teams called it a day.

Indians in action today

Hockey Gr-A: India v Australia
Time: 11.00 p.m. approx

Leander Paes/ Mahesh Bhupathi TennisMen8217;s Doubles, Semifinals
Time: 8.30 p.m. approx

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Satyadev Prasad Archery Men8217;s Indl. Elimination, QF: v IM Dong Hyun Korea
Time: 2.00 p.m approx

Malav Shroff/Sumeet Patel Sailing 49er Class, Race 5 and 6
Time: Noon onwards

THE MAIN EVENT
August 19, Thursday

Women8217;s individual final
If things fall in place, we might have a super show on our hands when the women8217;s individual all-round finals take place in the Olympic Indoor Gymnastics Hall today. Svetlana Khorkina participates only in the vault final with the Romanian and Chinese challenges big against her, but there8217;s major competition on in the asymetric bars, floor and beam events. The best six in the world in each of these categories will be present, leaping, vaulting, swinging, somersaulting8230;

TIME: 1.30pm approximately