Tokyo Olympics 2020 H/L Day 4: Boxer Lovlina makes quarters, shines on another disappointing day; shooters crash out

That's all we have for you today from the Indian contingent. Yet another disappointing day as we witnessed more exits. Boxer Lovlina Borgohain was the lone star on the day, as she made the quarterfinals. Thank you so much for joining us. We will be back tomorrow with all the action from Day 5. Until then, it's goodbye! CIAO

India's Vishnu Saravanan finishes 12th in Race 6 of Men's One Person Dinghy, Laser event. This proves to be his best result so far and in the overall standings, he jumps to the 22nd position

Greece's Stefanos Tsitsipas advanced to the third round of the men's singles tennis at the Olympic Games. Men's world number four Tsitsipas avenged his straight-sets loss to Frances Tiafoe at Wimbledon last month, taking out the American 6-3 6-4 to book a place in the third round.

Chinese Taipei win another goal. Kuo Hsing-Chun lifted 103 kg in the snatch, 133 in the clean & jerk, for a total of 236 kg – all three are Olympic records.

Kuo also attempted (and missed) a world record lift in the clean & jerk.

Silver goes to Polina Guryeva of Turkmenistan – that country's first ever Olympic medal.

Andoh Mikiko (JPN) took bronze.

Italo Ferreira (BRA), the current WSL champion, has become the inaugural Olympic champion in men's surfing.

15.14 points, to Igarashi's 6.60.

Gold for Brazil and silver for Japan!

Believe it or not – Ferreira broke his board on his first wave.

Varun Thakkar and K.C. Ganapathy's campaign began today in the Men's two-member Skiff 49-er class. In the first race, the duo finished in the 18th position.

Race 2 and 3, which were slated to take place today, have now been rescheduled.

Nethra is placed 33rd overall in the women's laser radial class. Vishnu Saravanan is currently competing in Race 6 of men's Laser event.

In a match that went to a 15th series, People's Republic of China team YANG Qian / YANG Haoran held off Mary Tucker / Lucas Kozeniesky (USA) for gold in the first mixed team 10m air rifle final.

The teams were locked at 9–9 after 10 series, but the Chinese pulled away y outscoring the Americans in three straight series and four of the last five.

Earlier, ROC's Yulia Karimova / Sergey Kamenskiy won bronze by beating Republic of Korea's KWON Eunji / NAM Taeyun 17–9 in 13 series.

China's CHEN Yuxi / ZHANG Jiaqi win GOLD in the women's synchro 10m platform event.

363.78 points the winning total.

The last event for the Indian contingent on Day is Vishnu Saravanan's Men's One Person Dinghy, Laser Race 6. We are having a delayed start but stay tuned for the result!

The first Olympic medal in surfing is won by Australia's Owen Wright, an incredible story after he suffered traumatic brain injury in 2015.

The Aussie beats Gabriel Medina (BRA) to win men's surfing bronze. Wright outscored Medina by 0.2 points, 11.97 to 11.77.

In the women's 100m backstroke event, Gold goes to Kaylee McKeown in a new Olympic record time 57.47!

Silver for Kylie Masse and bronze for Regan Smith.

Sailing update: India's Vishnu Saravanan finished in the 22nd position in the Men's One Person Dinghy, Laser Race 5

Sailing update: India's Nethra Kumanan finished in the 38th position in the Women's One Person Dinghy, Laser Radial Race 6

Well, we are yet to receive the results of Nethra Kumanan and Vishnu Saravanan's races in the sailing event.

And there is some good news for India on Day 4. Even though the Indian shuttlers Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy emerged victorious against the England pair of Ben Lane and Sean Vendy in their final Group A match, they still missed out on qualifying for the quarterfinals.

But boxer Lovlina defeated her German opponent to advance to the last-8 change a bring a smile on the face of Indians across the world. A narrow, 3-2 win but she'll take it

Nadine goes absolutely pouring in - she needs to win this round to get a win. Lovlina is picking a few scoring punches, and that's what she needs to do. Lovlina keeping distance, scoring punches - and she played it safe and smart in Round 3.

India's Lovlina Borgohain beats Germany's Nadine Apetz in the Women's 69kg Round of 16 match by split decision to reach quarterfinals.

Lovlina getting her own jab going in the round, after a good comeback in the first round that was enough to convince three judges to give her the win in Round 1. Nadine is struggling to close distance, a right hook, and a left-hook from Lovlina. But well defended. This looks like both boxers are cancelling each other out at this point. A left-handed jab on Lovlina face, it has been quite a cagey round.

Round 2 has also been given to Lovlina by 3:2 split verdict.

Strong start for Germany's Nadine Apetz who is moving further and closing the gap with the Indian boxer. Good left-handed jabs from Lovlina after the sensible defense. A feint and a right-hand jolt on Lovlina's face. This round is looking to go in Germany's favour. A slow start from Lovlina. She started to settle down as the round progress. Something to build on Round 2.

First Round goes to Lovlina 10-9 by split decision

India's Lovlina Borgohain will face off against Germany's Nadine Apetz in the Women's 69kg Round of 16 match

India's Lovlina Borgohain will face off against Germany's Nadine Apetz in the Women's 69kg Round of 16 match

Sailing update: India's Vishnu Saravanan finished in the 23rd position in the Men's One Person Dinghy, Laser Race 4

Vondrousova has just edged here in the second set, on which she has serve.

At 5-4, she brings up two match points. Osaka saves the first two to force deuce.

Although the Japanese scores the advantage, a nice forehand from the left-handed Czech sends them back to deuce.

Osaka then produces a drop shot at the net to bring up advantage again but sends a cross-court shot wide. Deuce again.

Vondrousova's turn to get advantage – Osaka sending one long.

And after a long, looping rally on the next point, Osaka sends one wide!

6–1 6–4.

(Tokyo Olympics wesbite)

Sailing update: India's Nethra Kumanan finished in the 32nd position in the Women's One Person Dinghy, Laser Radial Race 5

India's Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty beat Great Britain's Lane and Vendy 21-17, 21-19 in men's doubles pool A match in badminton. But that is not enough to take them forward to the quarterfinals. Chinese Taipei's victory over Indonesia earlier in the day means, the Indian pair is knocked out on game difference. They finish third with a +1 game difference while Chinese Taipei and Indonesia move to quarters from this group with a better game difference.