Asian Games: No boxing seedings means Nikhat Zareen & Co face robust assessments early on

Nikhat Zareen, the reigning 51kg ladies’s world champion, will face the Vietnamese boxer she defeated within the finals of the 2023 Women’s World Championships in New Delhi in her first spherical itself

No seeding for the boxing programme on the Hangzhou Asian Games signifies that lots of the Worlds finest boxers won’t want to attend until the ultimate to satisfy one another. A subject that isn’t balanced by seedings has meant that in sure eventualities, high boxers face one another early within the event whereas in different eventualities, unheralded prospects get a simple pathway to the highest. No situation exemplifies this higher than Nikhat Zareen, the reigning 51kg ladies’s boxing world champion, who will face the Vietnamese boxer she defeated within the finals of the 2023 Women’s World Championships in New Delhi in her first spherical itself.

Nikhat Zareen vs Thi Tam Nguyen, 50 kg (W)

Luck merely doesn’t appear to favour Nikhat Zareen. At the 2023 Worlds, her entry into the 50kg weight class meant that she was unseeded and ended up having to face six boxers to win her gold medal. The final of these boxers was Thi Tam Nguyen, a Vietnamese boxer who gained the bronze medal on the 2018 Asian Games and gave Zareen a tricky struggle in New Delhi earlier than judges scored the competition 5-0 in favour of the Indian. But that rating doesn’t showcase simply how robust the Vietnamese boxer was and the way the dearth of seedings has meant that what ought to have ideally been the finals of the sunshine flyweight occasion, will now be its first spherical. It doesn’t assist that Zareen might additionally face Thai boxer Chuthamat Raksat within the semi-finals. She had confronted Raksat on the World Championships in New Delhi and narrowly gained 5-2 then.

Hasanboy Dusmatov vs Saken Bibossinov, 50kg (M)

A present world champion and the 2021 world champion each meet within the Round of 16 after a bout every. Welcome to the Hangzhou Asian Games the place solely one in every of Hasanboy Dusmatov or Saken Bibossinov earns the correct to qualify for the Paris Olympics. Luckily for each, qualification tournaments within the leadup to the Paris Games signifies that shedding on the Asian Games gained’t be the tip of their Olympic desires. The lack of seeding additionally impacts India’s Deepak Bhoria on this class, as he goes up in opposition to Japan’s Tomoya Tsuboi, who gained gold within the 54kg class of the 2021 World Championships.

Shiva Thapa to the ultimate

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While most Indians have suffered from this draw, Shiva Thapa could have a simple pathway to the ultimate after he finds himself on the better half of the bracket. The 2015 World Championships bronze medallist’s solely doubtless problem might come from whoever emerges from the battle between Chinese Taipei’s Lai Chu-en and China’s Wang Xiangyang.

Nishant Dev’s robust run

After lately profitable a bronze medal on the Worlds, Nishant Dev will doubtless face Aslanbek Shymbergenov, the present 71kg world champion within the semi-finals. Dev had misplaced to Shymbergenov earlier within the yr on the World Championships however with a view to even get on the win column in opposition to the Kazakhstan boxer, Dev could should beat Japanese boxer Sewonrets Okazawa, who he’s set to satisfy within the quarter-finals ought to each boxers overcome their matches previous to then.

Arundhati, Parveen handed robust begins

It isn’t simply Zareen who has been handed a tricky begin amongst Indian ladies. Take the case of Arundhati Chaudhary who will likely be collaborating in her first-ever Asian Games and must face Liu Yang the present 66kg World Champion straight off the bat. In the 57 kg class, Parveen Hooda, who’s a medal hope for India will go up in opposition to one other Chinese boxer in Xu Zichun.