Sharath now has a tough match ahead as he takes on the legendary Long, who is also the reigning world champion
CA Bhavani Devi will now face world No. 3 Manon Brunet of France in the Round of 32.
Poland's Jerzy Kowalski and Artur Mikolajczewski finished at the top with a timing of 6:43.44, followed by Spain's Caetano Horta Pombo and Manel Balastegui, who clocked 6:45.71 in the repechage 2.
Mary Kom tightened her defence and attacked with intent to win the next three rounds and clinch the bout.
Manika will now face 10th seed Sofia Polcanova of Austria.
Deepak and Panwar were forced to play catch-up after shooting low scores in the first two series.
The Prime Minister also appealed to people to use Khadi and handloom products in his monthly radio programme.
With Sania and Ankita's premature exit, Sumit Nagal is the lone tennis hope for India now at the Tokyo Olympics.
Nayak finished at the bottom half in all the events.
Both were appearing in the maiden Olympics and the pressure got the better of them in the crunch moments.
Sindhu sealed the first game in her favour when Polikarpova missed a shot.
Tokyo Games silver winner Mirabai Chanu's coach Vijay Sharma will get Rs 10 lakh after his ward's historic feat as the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) on Saturday announced cash rewards for coaches of Olympic medal winners.
Deepika and Jadhav looked scrappy in their first match together against Chinese Taipei and trailed 1-3 but the duo seized the momentum with six 10s in the final two sets to storm into the last-eight.
India's hope in men's singles, B Sai Praneeth suffered a shock loss against Misha Zilberman of Israel in his first Groupd D match.
Mirabai Chanu lifted a total of 202kg (87kg+115kg) to better Karnam Malleswari's bronze in the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
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