Shanghai 2024: Finals for both Indian compound teams at season opener

“We maintained our shooting process and it worked well,” said an elated Aditi Swami, the reigning under-18 and senior World Archery Champion. “I hope we can repeat the success of the World Cup in Paris last year where both the Indian men and women won the team gold medals.”

India’s line-up: still Swami, Asian Games Champion Jyothi Surekha Vennam and Parneet Kaur.

But the squad is without the coach that architected so many of their successes last season, Italian import Sergio Pagni. He is currently at a camp in India.

In the final, the Indian women will face Italy, who overcame Kazakhstan in a semifinal shoot-off after the scores were tied at 227 points in regulation.

“We made some errors but it was a good match,” said Marcella Tonioli.

The 10th seeded Dutch men also won a tiebreak – against France – to book their ticket to the final. Mike Schloesser, Sil Pater and Stef Willems shot three perfect X-ring 10s, compared to their opponents’ standard 10s, to survive the match.

“We have stepped up our game compared to yesterday and we’re super happy,“ said world number one Schloesser, calling the result a surprise after entering the bracket as underdogs.

Kazakhstan’s women and the Korean men’s team secured bronze medals at the end of the session.

Competition continues this afternoon in Shanghai with recurve qualifying.