Lovlina Borgohain, Sakshi Chaudhary punch their way to quarters

Tokyo Olympic bronze medallist Lovlina Borgohain made a winning start to her campaign as she and Sakshi Chaudhary moved to the quarter-finals of the Women*s World Championships with dominant victories here on Monday.

Both Sakshi (54kg) and Lovlina (75kg) notched identical 5-0 unanimous decision wins respectively. While Lovlina out-punched Mexico*s Vanessa Ortiz, Sakshi got the better of Zhazira Urakbayeva of Kazakhstan to progress to the last eight stage.

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But the most electrifying Indian performance was by Preeti (54kg), who eventually lost her bout to Thailand*s Jitpong Jutamas by a 4-3 verdict. The bout was so close that a review had to be taken.

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