Of the entrants, eight were former Olympians: India's Dola Banerjee and Bombayla Devi Laishram, England's Naomi Folkard and Alison Williamson, Australia's Deonne Bridger and Alexandra Feeney, Canada's Marie-Pier Beaudet, and Veronique Marrier of Mauritius.

[4] India's Deepika Kumari, the reigning women's recurve individual youth champion, entered as the highest ranked athlete at world number 5.

[5][6] Seven months before the competition began a four-day international test event was held at the Yamuna Sports Complex in March 2010 to evaluate the venue's preparedness ahead of the Games.

[7] Two days after the opening ceremony in Delhi it was announced that all archery events were to be removed from the schedule of the succeeding 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow due to time constraints.

[citation needed] The event was the seventh of the eight competitions on the archery schedule to conclude, the final rounds of the men's individual recurve following on the afternoon of 10 October.

[13] These plans were however abandoned in June 2010 after spiralling construction costs and the failure to obtain security clearance for the India Gate site due to its proximity with the centrepiece Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium.

Banerjee blamed the blustery conditions on her semi-final defeat to sixth seed Alison Williamson, in which she surrendered a one-set lead with three successive set losses, losing 6-2.

[17][18] Williamson was joined by top seed Deepika Kumari in the final, who had failed to win just one set in the previous three matches, thereby guaranteeing a maiden women's individual recurve medal for both nations.

Kumari had won both of their previous match-ups, in the women's team recurve event two days prior and in the second stage of the Archery World Cup in Antalya, Turkey four months earlier.

After her defeat Williamson praised Kumari's shooting and the behaviour of the home crowd, whose conduct in the women's team final had come under criticism by fellow English archer Amy Oliver for excessive volume and poor sportsmanship.