11 June,2011 07:26 AM IST | | Agencies
The mixed duo of Jayanta Talukdar and Deepika Kumari have brought in some cheer to the Indian team, who were earlier struggling as they stunned heavyweights Korea en route to the final of the World Cup (Stage II) archery competitions in Antalya, Turkey yesterday.
Deepika Kumari
The Indian duo will take on the Chinese pair of Xiaoxiang Dai and Yuting Fang in the summit clash on Sunday as per the news received here. Yesterday, the Talukdar-Deepika pair did not give their fancied Korean opponents of Bo Bae Ki and Woojin Kim any chance with a 151-149 win.
The Indian pair first defeated Germany (Florian Floto and Elen Richter) 146-145 and Italy (Mauro Nespoli and Natali Valeeva) 149-147 in the quarter-finals. Meanwhile, the Indian women's recurve team set up a bronze medal play-off against Ukraine after narrowly losing to the US.
