Six-time world champion booked her place in the Round of 16 after defeating Dominican Republic’s Miguelina Hernandez Garcia in the opening round. Garcia is 15 years younger than the 38-year-old Mary Kom who beat her 4-1 in the women’s flyweight (51kg) category. Mary Kom who won a bronze medal at the 2012 Olympics is set to face I. Valencia of Colombia on 29th of July.

Manika Batra who is ranked 62 in the world and won the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award upset the world by defeating world ranked 32 Margaryta Pesotska 4-3 in order to reach third round of the women’s single table tennis discipline where she is scheduled to face S. Polcanova of Austria.

P.V. Sindhu who won a silver medal in the 2016 Olympics in the women’s single badminton tournament & who is currently the reigning world champion registered a comfortable win over Israel’s Ksendia Polikarpova in the opening match of group J.