HANGZHOU: Six wins in a row on Tuesday at the Asian Games saw Bhavani Devi scorching the fencing piste (playing area) at the Hangzhou Dianzi University Gymnasium. But the story didn't have a fairytale ending. She was angry, agitated and unimpressed at the end of her next match, where a win would have seen her create history.
No Indian fencer has ever been in the semifinals of the Asian Games, and China's top women's individual sabre athlete and world No. 12 Shao Yaqi stood in the way of Bhavani and a quarterfinal victory. But the scenes at the end of her 7-15 defeat is not what Bhavani would want to remember.
