Bhavani Devi losses, India’s marketing campaign in person occasions leads to Fencing International Cup
Indian fencers, together with Olympian Bhavani Devi, bowed out of the ladies’s person sabre match of the International Cup after shedding their respective contests in Tbilisi, Georgia.
Bhavani Devi, ranked 55th on this planet, had won a bye within the spherical of 128 however she suffered a 8-15 loss to Spain’s Elena Hernandez within the subsequent spherical to go out the contest.
The 28-year-old from Chennai, the primary Indian to take part on the Olympics, secured victories in 4 fits within the staff degree, whilst misplaced one. One fit was once referred to as off.
Amongst different Indians in fray, Anitha Karunakaran and Josna Christy Jose couldn’t go the spherical of 128.
Whilst Karunakaran misplaced 3-15 to Russia’s Dariya Drozd, Jose misplaced to Spain’s Araceli Navarro by way of a equivalent scoreline.
The lads’s and ladies’s Staff International Cup gets underway on the similar venue on Monday.
Bhavani Devi would possibly compete within the subsequent girls’s International Cup in Plovdiv, Bulgaria from January 28 to 29. There are two extra International Cups in Greece (March four to five) and Belgium (March 18 to 19).
