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Here is the schedule of the sixth day of Rio 2016.
Updated : Sep 30, 2017, 08:23 AM IST
As Rio 2016 enters its sixth day, India's hopes are high as Saina Nehwal kickstarts the badminton campaign.
Thrilling matches await as badminton is scheduled to get kickstarted on Thursday, along with Sania Mirza - Rohan Bapanna playing their first match, which got cancelled on Wednesday due to rains. Best Indian golfer Aniban Lahiri is also set to show his skills in the men's round one. Other than these players, J Gutta, A Ponnappa, PV Sindhu, SSP Chawrasia, Deepika Kumari, Bombayla Devi, hockey teams (both men and women), Kidambi Srikanth, Shiva Thapa are other Indian players who will be eyeing to take a step further in their Olympic journey.
All eyes will be set on Saina Nehwal, who is the country's biggest medal tally.
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1. Golf: Men's Round 1
Participants: Anirban Lahiri and SSP Chawrasia
Time: 4.00 pm IST
Result: Anirban finished at the 50th position and Chawrasia at 27th position.
2. Badminton: Women's Doubles Group A
Participants: J Gutta/ A Ponnappa
Time: 4.30 pm IST
Result: Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa lost 15-21 10-21 to the World No.1 Japanese pair of Ayaka Takahashi and Misaki Matsumoto.
3. Archery: Women's Individual Round of 16
Participants: Deepika Kumari v/s Tan Ya-ting
Time: 5.30 pm IST
Result: End of the road for Deepika who was blanked 0-6 by World No. 2 Tan Ya-Ting
Participants: Bombayla Devi v/s Alejandra Valencia
Time: 5.56 pm IST
Result: Bombayla lost 2-6 to World No.18 Alejandra Valencia of Mexico.
4. Badminton: Men's Doubles Group Stage
Participants: S Reddy and M Attri
Time: 5.30 pm IST
Result: Manu Attri and B Sumeeth Reddy lost their opening matches.
Participants: Kidambi Srikanth v/s Lino Munoz
Time: 5.30 am (Friday) IST
Result: Srikanth Kidambi (India) beat Lino Munoz (Mexico) 21-11 21-17
5. Hockey: Men's Pool B
Participants: India vs The Netherlands
Time: 6.30 pm IST
Result: The Indian men's hockey team went down 1-2 against Netherlands.
6. Badminton: Women's Singles Group Stage
Participant: PV Sindhu
Time: 6.40 pm IST
Result: Sindhu spanked World No. 64 Laura Sarosi of Hungary 21-8 21-9 in 27 minutes.
Participant: Saina Nehwal
Time: 7.50 pm IST
Result: Saina staved off a spirited challenge from World No. 73 Brazilian girl Vicente Lohaynny 21-17 21-17.
7. Tennis: Mixed doubles
Participants: Sania Mirza v/s Rohan Bopanna
Time: 7.30 pm IST
Result: The Indian duo of Sania and Bopanna entered the quarterfinals of the mixed doubles event of tennis competition with a straight-set win over Australian pair of Samantha Stosur and John Peers.
8. Boxing: Men's Bantam (56kg) Preliminaries
Participant: Shiva Thapa
Time: 8.00 pm ISP
Result: Shiva Thapa lost 0-3 in a one-sided contest in which he also ended up sustaining a cut above his left eye.
9. Hockey: Women's Pool B
Participants: India vs USA
Time: 4.00 am (Friday) IST
Result: Indian women's hockey team slumped to a 0-3 defeat against USA.