Indian fencers, together with Olympian Bhavani Devi, crashed out of the ladies’s particular person saber occasion of the World Cup after shedding their respective matches in Tbilisi, Georgia.
World ranked fifty fifth Bhavani Devi had a bye within the spherical of 128, however misplaced 8-15 to Spain’s Elena Hernandez within the subsequent spherical and was out of the competitors.
The 28-year-old from Chennai, the primary Indian to compete within the Olympics, received 4 matches within the group stage, whereas shedding one. One match was cancelled.
Among different Indians, Anita Karunakaran and Josanna Christie Jose couldn’t cross the spherical of 128.
Karunakaran misplaced to Russia’s Darya Drozd 3-15 and Jose misplaced to Spain’s Arseli Navarro by the identical rating.
The males’s and girls’s staff World Cup will start on the similar venue on Monday.
Bhavani Devi is more likely to compete within the subsequent Women’s World Cup from January 28 to 29 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. There are two extra World Cups in Greece (March 4 to five) and Belgium (March 18 to 19).
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
