Manu Bhaker was the highlight of the day among India shooters by winning bronze in the women’s 10m air pistol finals, becoming the first Indian woman to win an Olympic medal in shooting
Also progressing into the finals in shooting were Ramita Jindal and Arjun Babuta in the women’s and men’s 10m air rifle events respectively
Both PV Sindhu and HS Prannoy registered straight-game wins in their opening singles clashes in badminton
Both Manika Batra and Sreeja Akula won their opening Round of 16 encounters in the table tennis women’s singles competition
Nikhat Zareen advanced to the Round of 16 after defeating Germany’s Maxi Cloetzer in the women’s 50kg event
France’s Leon Marchand smashed the men’s 400m individual medley world record previously held by Michael Phelps with a timing of 4.02.95
Korea continued their dominance of the women’s team archery event by defeating China and winning gold for the 10th straight time since the team events were introduced in the 1988 Games
Also, Rafael Nadal set up a dream second-round clash against Novak Djokovic after defeating Hungary’s Marton Fucsovics 6-1, 4-6, 6-4 in his opening singles match