India at Tokyo 2020: PV Sindhu, Manika Batra, Mary Kom steal the headlines

Manu Bhaker and Yashaswini Deswal failed to qualify for the women's 10m air pistol finals at the Tokyo Olympics. (PTI)

Arjun Lal Jat and Arvind Singh created history when they became first Indian rowers to make it to the semi-final stage in the Olympics. (Twitter/India Rowing)

PV Sindhu, the 2016 Rio silver medalist, won her opening badminton women's singles match against Israel's Ksenia Polikarpova at the Tokyo Olympics. (AP)

Sania Mirza and Ankita Raina lost their tennis women's doubles first round match against Ukraine's Lyudmyla Kichenok and Nadiia Kichenok. (Reuters)

Pranati Nayak failed to qualify for the All Round finals of Artistic Gymnastics competition at the Tokyo Olympics. (Reuters)

Divyansh Singh Panwar and Deepak Kumar finished way down in men’s 10m air rifle qualification round at the Tokyo Olympics. (AP)

Mairaj Ahmad Khan during skeet men's qualification round at the Tokyo Olympics. His and Angad Vir Singh Bajwa's placings will be decided later. (PTI)

Nethra Kumanan was on 27th overall after two races (out of 10) in women's individual laser radial sailing at the Tokyo Olympics. (Twitter/Team India)

G Sathiyan, ranked 38 in the world, was shown the exit door by Lam Siu Hang of Hong Kong in the table tennis men's singles second round. (Reuters)

Manika Batra won her table tennis women's singles second round against Margaryta Pesotska of Ukraine at the Tokyo Olympics. (Reuters)

Mary Kom (51kg category) advanced to the last-16 stage with a win over Miguelina Hernandez Garcia of the Dominican Republic at the Tokyo Olympics. (AP)