Veteran Indian wrestler Sarita Mor superior to the semi-finals by defeating defending champion Linda Morris right here on Wednesday, whereas Anshu Malik additionally superior to the last-four stage of the World Championships maintaining the nation’s medal hopes alive.
Reigning Asian champion Sarita had a tricky opening match towards the 2019 world champions from Canada however Trump was eradicated with an 8-2 win within the 59kg pre-quarterfinals.
Quick take-down strikes, adopted by some good protection with an publicity put Sarita 7-0 on the finish of the primary interval.
The solely scoring level he conceded was a take-down transfer within the second interval. He did not let Linda play her sport maintaining her in a locked place.
Later, the quarterfinals towards Germany’s Sandra Paruszewski turned out to be a tricky contest, with the 2 wrestlers largely confined to a everlasting struggle that took numerous them.
There was just one point-scoring transfer, a take down effected by Sarita late within the match and that sealed the outcome.
She will now face defending European champion Bilyana Zhivkova Duodova of Bulgaria for a spot within the historic closing.
In 57kg, younger Anshu Malik lived as much as the expectations with a assured victory. She was barely upset by Kazakhstan’s Nilufar Raimova, whom she defeated by technical superiority and later defeated Mongolia’s Davchimeg Erkhembayar 5-1 within the quarterfinals.
In 72kg, Divya Kakran shocked Ksenia Burakova with a ‘fall win’ however misplaced to Under-23 world champion Masako Furuich of Japan by technical superiority.
Divya, the 2020 Asian champion, fought for her coronary heart in each the bouts and got here out of adverse positions at instances, however hasty strikes and over-aggression led her to face the quarterfinals towards the Japanese.
Meanwhile, Kiran (76kg) received her repechage spherical towards Turkey’s Aysegul Ozbege to succeed in the bronze play-offs, however Pooja Jat (53kg) misplaced her repechage to Ecuador’s Luisa Elizabeth Melendres.
Ritu Malik (68kg) was defeated by Ukraine’s Anastasia Lavrenchuk in a qualification bout that lasted solely 15 seconds. It appeared that Ritu’s knee acquired damage. PTI AT
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
