Saturday, June 17, 2006

Golf News -
US Open Golf Championship.

Jeev Milkha Singh and Vijay Singh manages to play on the weekend at the US Open Golf Championship while Jyoti Randhawa joined golfers like Tiger Woods, defending champion Michael Campbell, Retief Goosen and Sergio Garcia who will head home after missing the cut.

Tiger played consecutive 6 over round to finished 2 days score to 12 over and tied for 82nd place ... Michael Campbell also ended round on 12 over after 7 over 2nd round ... Jyoti had 5 over round to joined company of Tiger wood to finished on 12 over ... Retief Goosen had terrible round of 8 over to ended on tied 121 position with score 15 over ... And Sergio Garcia did much wost with 8 over round to finished on 16 over to tied for 128th position.

Otherhand Jeev had 6 over round to finised 2 round on 9 over to tied for 53rd position to make 2nd time cut in hit 2 particiaption in this prestigeous tournament ... Vijay SIngh also scored 4 over round to tied for 14th place with +5 score.

The 2006 U.S. Open Championship - After 2nd Round

1 STRICKER, Steve 70 69 -1
2 MONTGOMERIE, Colin 69 71 Even
T3 OGILVY, Geoff 71 70 +1
T3 FERRIE, Kenneth 71 70 +1

T14 SINGH, Vijay 71 74 +5
T53 SINGH, Jeev Milkha 73 76 +9
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Badminton News -Malaysia Open 2006

[QF] [R2] SANAVE Thomas/KUMAR Rupesh (IND/IND) l LIN Woon Fui/MOHD TAZARI Mohd Fairuzizuan (MAS/MAS) 10-21 21-13 16-21
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Squash News -
ICL Chennai Open Squash 2006

Majid Khan (Pak) bt (1) Khayal Mohammed (Pak) 11/10(2-0) 8/11 11/3 5/11 11/5
(3) Dylan Bennett (Ned) bt Wai Hang Wong (Hkg) 11/4 11/8 10/11(0-2) 11/7
(4) Saurav Ghosal (Ind) bt (7) Tom Richards (Eng) 6/11 11/7 11/10(7-5) 11/5
(2) Ritwik Bhattacharya (Ind) bt (5) Yasir Butt (Pak) 9/11 11/3 11/7 11/3
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Tennis News -At the $15K Rocklin futures in california,

[QF] (5) Harsh Mankad (IND,366) bt (Q) Alberto Francis (USA,579) 64 46 64

Very nice to see Harsh making the SF in his first tournament back after a very long injury layoff (8 weeks exactly).
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At the Grade 1 ITF Offenbench , Germany ( Clay)

[QF] (2) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,36) bt. (12) Fernando Romboli (BRA,85) 76(4) 63
[SF] (2) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,36) vs (11) Jose-Roberto Velasco (BOL,75) 60 26 62

A first time grade-1 claycourt final for an Indian in Europe. Very good performance considering Vivek reached semi-finals here last year & Karan did likewise in 2003.
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$10K Les Franqueses del Valles, Spain

[R1] (1)Sandhya Nagaraj (IND) bt (wc)Elena Kazakova (RUS) 61 61
[R2] (1)Sandhya Nagaraj (IND) bt (Q)Daria Petrovic (SCG) 61 75
[QF] (1)Sandhya Nagaraj (IND) bt (Q)Cynthia Prieto-Garcia (ESP) 64 46 62

[SF] (1)Sandhya Nagaraj (IND,607) vs Nuria Sanchez-Garcia (ESP,733)
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$10K ITF Women Delhi (June 12 )

Final (1)Ankita Bhambri bt (2)Isha Lakhani 63 62
Doubles -Rushmi Chakravarthi (IND)/ Megha Vakaria (IND) bt Isha Lakhani (IND)/ Pichittra Thongdach (THA) 63 64

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