Paris Olympics 2024 Day 5 Highlights: Prannoy to face Lakshya in round of 16; Lovlina, Nishant one win away from medal

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 5 Live Updates: The Indian needs one more set win to go through to the pre-quarterfinals. She shoots 9, 9 and then goes wayward with a seven. However, Roeffen spectacularly misses the target completely and scores a 0 first up. The rarest of rare sights that. She shoots an eight and a nine after that but it doesn't matter.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 5 Live Updates: Deepika can only get three nines. Roeffen responds with 10, 10, 9. Her set and she levels it up.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 5 Live Updates: She shoots 10, 10, 9, Roeffen responds with 9, 9 and 10 and so two points to Deepika now.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 5 Live Updates: The archers are being introduced at the Esplanade. This event goes by in a jiffy but this will be the last one for Deepika today, one way or another. The pre-quarterfinals are all scheduled for August 3. Bhajan Kaur is already there for India in women's individual archery, can Deepika join her junior fellow Indian archer?

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 5 Live Updates: Quinty Roeffen has won her round of 64 match against Elisabeth Straka. Deepika will hence be facing the Dutch in a few minutes.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 5 Live Updates: She wins the shoot off and progresses to the next round. Deepika will now face either Quinty Roeffen (Netherlands) or Elisabeth Straka of Austria. That match is coming soon at 4.35pm so stay tuned.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 5 Live Updates: As dominant as it gets from the bronze medallist and she is now one win away from securing her second Olympic medal. But for doing that, she has to now beat top seed Li Qian, against whom she had lost in the Czechia Grand Prix earlier this year and in the final of the 2023 Asian Games. On the other hand, Lovlina had defeated Qian enroute her gold medal at the 2023 World Championships.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 5 Live Updates: Lovlina dominated the second round as well. Her defence has held her in good stead and Sunniva seems completely out of ideas at the end of it. Lovlina takes the round unanimously as well.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 5 Live Updates: Wow how about this. Deepika had fallen 3-5 behind and then she comes back to make it 5-5 by hitting three consecutive 10s. This match has been as close as it gets.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 5 Live Updates: This has been good from the Indian thus far. She shoots 9, 8 and 10 to draw level with Parnat. Deepika had taken the two set point lead initially but Reena fought back to take two back. The two archers then make identical shots and it is now 3-3.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 5 Live Updates: Lovlina may have just edged round 1 here. The Indian evades the initial advances of her opponent and then she receives a warning from the ref for not keeing her head up. Lovlina then lands a jab on Sunniva's chin, then catches her opponent with a combination of punches befoer the bell is sounded. Sure enough, the judges hand the round to Lovlina.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 5 Live Updates: The bell has been sounded and we are underway at the North Paris Arena. Lovlina in the blue corner, Hofstad in the red.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 5 Live Updates: Over at the beautifule Esplanade des Invalides, Deepika Kumari is set to take on Estonia's Reena Parnat in women's individual 1/32.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 5 Live Updates: We go now to boxing where Lovlina Borgohain is set to face Sunniva Hofstad of Norway in the women's 75kg round of 16. The round of 16 clash between Li Qian of China is putting on a boxing clinic against Hergie Bacyadan of Philippines is drawing to a close and the Indian bronze medallist will take the ring after this one.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 5 Live Updates: There it is! Sreeja joins Manika in that exclusive bracket of Indian table tennis players which has only these two so far. She has won this ridiculously close game 4-2.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 5 Live Updates: Two consecutive points again and Sreeja is now two points away from becoming just the second Indian to go through to the round of 16 in table tennis singles after Manika Batra did it just a couple of days back.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 5 Live Updates: Sreeja leading Zeng 6-5. This is the first time she has managed to get two points in a row and take the lead, having been a point behind Zeng throughout this very tight game.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 5 Live Updates: Zeng stays in it with Sreeja pushing one into the net and. The Indian still leads 3-2.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 5 Live Updates Table Tennis: Sreeja Akula continues her dominant show and claims the fourth game now to make it 3-1. She has been too good for her Singaporean opponent after losing the first game. She wins the fourth game 11-5 to stamp her authority in the match.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 5 Live Updates Table Tennis: Sreeja Akula continues the momentum here to claim the third game also and this time in a very convincing fashion - 10-4. She lost the first game but bounced back well in style to win the last two as the current scoreline reads 9-11, 12-10 and 10-4.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 5 Live Updates Table Tennis: Sreeja Akula bounces back in style to claim the second game 12-10. The young Indian star is in no mood to back down from the challenge and level the match after the second game.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 5 Live Updates Badminton: A magnificent win for Lakshya Sen here as he outclasses Indonesia's Jonatan Christie 21-18, 21-12 to move to the last 16 here. He entered the match as an underdog and was trailing behind in the initial minutes but he didn't back down from the challenge and took the fight to Christie and dominated him with a straight games win.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 5 Live Updates Badminton: Lakshya Sen continues to extend his domination in the second game with a five-point lead at the moment. He will look to finish the match in this game only. However, the job is not done yet as Jonatan Christie eyeing a fightback here.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 5 Live Updates Table Tennis: Sreeja Akula is in action now against Singapore's Jian Zeng in the Women's singles Round of 32

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 5 Live Updates Badminton Update: Lakshya Sen takes a four-point lea din the second game now and completely a the match. Jonatan Christie is feeling the pressure now and making some poor errors here.