Harvinder advances to quarter-finals in quest for second Paralympics medal

Tokyo Games bronze medallist Harvinder Singh secured back-to-back wins to reach quarterfinals in his bid for a successive Paralympics medal in archery competition here on Wednesday.

Harvinder, the only Paralympics medal-winning Indian archer, knocked out Tseng Lung-Hui of Chinese Taipei 7-3 before overcoming an opening set deficit to edge out Setiawan Setiawan of Indonesia 6-2 in the last-16 round.

Harvinder lost the first set by just one point (27-28) after a poor 8-point start. But he was quick to regain composure and nailed three 28s in a row to put pressure on his Indonesian opponent.

Setiawan managed 25 and 27 and in the fourth set he misfired his arrow to score 15 to concede the match.

Earlier in his opening round, Harvinder drew the first set 25-25, before he shot one 10 and 9 to win the second 27-26 and take 3-1 lead.

Lung-Hui dished out a near perfect third set when he dropped just one point to win it 29-26 and bring the scores level at 3-3.

But Lung-Hui faltered in the