Tokyo: Indian Archer Veteran Tarundeep Rai lost to Itay Shanny from Israel in a tight shooting finishing to get out of the second round door which breaking the heart in his last Olympic appearance in the Tokyo match here on Wednesday.
Under the windy condition in Yumenoshima Park here, the two players locked 5-5 but Shanny, who were 15 years old to Rai, sealed the match 10-9 with the perfect score in the shooting.
The world number 92 Israel, who has removed the Japanese team’s bronze medalist Muto Hiroki in the first round, was superior to Indians during death when he shot three 10 of the last four arrows to sail to the pre-quarter-finals.
This is the exit of the second round in a row for three times the Olympian Rai who has made his game debut in Athens 2004.
In 2012 the London Olympics, Rai has also lost in the second round.
The 37-year-old Army man, who has a 6-4 thrilling victory over Olexia Hunbin from Ukraine in the first round, once opposed to show extraordinary satisfaction when he rose back to 0-3 from 0-3 of 0-3 2 deficits , Needing a tie in the fifth set to move to the age of 16 years, Rai faltered to match Shanny who won a set with two points, drilling in two 10 and nine, due to the sequence of RAI 9-8-9.
10 which was perfectly stored in Eluding Rai as the world number 54 India began the trial in shooting with 9, while Shanny sealed the problem with 10.
RAI was highly released by the gusts of the lost wind which was first regulated by four points before flattening the match 2-2 by winning the second set with a slender one point margin.
A series of six 9 by Shanny means that Rai grabs 5-3 instructions but fails to bind the fifth set.
Previously on that day, Rai trailed 2-4 against the world of Ukraine no 66 Hunbin but won the last two sets with three 10 per 10 to move to the second round.