Overview

• Nikhat Zareen won 5-0 over the USA’s Jennifer Lozano in the women’s 51kg round of 32 and now faces Turkey’s Busenaz Cakiroglu in the pre-quarterfinals.
• Top seed Lovlina Borgohain was eliminated 0-5 by Turkey’s Busra Isildar in the women’s 75kg round of 16.
• Debutant Hitesh Gulia lost 1-4 to the Netherlands’ Finn Robert Bos in the men’s 70kg preliminaries after a third-round standing count proved decisive.
• Asian Games bronze medallist Narender Berwal beat Ireland’s Martin Christopher McDonagh 4-1 in the men’s +90kg opener to reach the last 16, where he meets Italy’s Diego Lenzi.
• Jaismine Lamboria cruised 5-0 past Ukraine’s Daria-Olha Hutarina at 57kg, while Sumit Kundu (75kg) and Neeraj Phogat (65kg) also advanced with 5-0 and 3-2 wins respectively.