Tokyo Olympics Day 4, July 26: Indian athletes to watch out for

While men's doubles pair Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty will play their second match on Monday, paddler Manika Batra will look to confirm her place in quarterfinal.

Hyderabad: On the third day of the Tokyo Olympics, India failed to win a medal. Noted athletes like Manu Bhaker, Divyansh Singh Panwar, Yashaswini Deswal and Deepak Kumar failed to progress to the next round. That pain worsened further when the Indian men's hockey team suffered a 7-1 defeat to Australia later on the day. So far, weightlifter Mirabai Chanu's silver is the only medal India has won.

However, Mary Kom and Manika Batra's respective wins and rowers Arjun Lal Jat and Arvind Singh's qualification to the semifinal were rare good news for India on Sunday.

Here are the athletes and team on whom we should keep an eye on Day 4, July 26, of 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, Chirag Shetty - Badminton

After a thrilling victory against World No. 3 Chinese Taipei duo Li Yang and Wang Chi-lin, Satwik and Chirag will be up for another tough challenge on Monday as they take on World No. 1 men's doubles pair Marcus Fernaldi Gideon & Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo.

It will be interesting to watch how the World No. 10 Indian duo negotiates the Indonesian challenge after their terrific win of Saturday.

In their first outing, Satwik and Chirag bagged their first match in the sixth match point in the third game. Their last five attempts were nullified by the Chinese Taipei pair.

Sutirtha Mukherjee - Table tennis

The Olympic debutante has already created a ripple winning her first match against World No. 80 Linda Bergström of Sweden in a thrilling seven-game contest.

World No. 98 Sutirtha will be up for another challenge in the second round against Portugal's China-born paddler Fu Yu, who is currently ranked 55.

After her magnificent performance on her Olympic debut, she will be closely watched on Monday.

Manika Batra - Table tennis

The darling of Indian table tennis Manika Batra has been in good form. She has defeated World No. 32 Margaryta Pesotska of Ukrain 4-3 and in the next game, she blew away Great Britain's Tin-Tin Ho 4-0.

The Indian paddler, who is ranked 63, will now face arguably the toughest challenge when she takes on World No. 16 Sofia Polcanova in round three.

It has to be seen whether Manika Batra can overcome this hurdle or not.

Angad Vir Singh Bajwa - Shooting

On Sunday, India's Angad Vir Singh Bajwa missed two targets out of 75 to be placed 11th on count back at the end of the third round in men's skeet qualifications at the Tokyo Olympics.

It needs to be seen how he performs on Monday.

Shooting, which has been touted as one of the strongest medal hopes for India, is yet to deliver the result.

Men's archery team

The Indian men's team comprising Atanu Das, Pravin Jadhav, Tarundeep Rai will look to confirm their place in the quarterfinal on Monday.

Currently ranked 9th in the world, the Indian team has been placed in the bottom half of the group of 64 due to their poor performance in the ranking event.

It will be interesting to see whether they can break into the round of 32.