Tennis News -
At $170K WTA Sunfeast Open Kolkata - September 18 to 24, 2006

Maindraw -
[R1] (5) Sania Mirza (IND,70) bt (Q) Rushmi Chakravarthi (IND,454) 60 64
[R1] (7) Nicole Pratt (AUS,79) bt (WC) Sunitha Rao (USA,219) 26 63 63

[R2] (5) Sania Mirza (IND,70) vs Sandra Kloesel (GER,109)

Doubles -
[R1] Ankita Bhambri (IND)/ Sanaa Bhambri (IND) l Akgul Amanmuradova (UZB)/ Iroda Tulyaganova (UZB) 16 26
[R1] Melinda Czink (HUN)/ Shikha Uberoi (IND) bt Sandra Klösel (GER)/ Galina Voskoboeva (RUS) 63 76(4)
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At the $50K Lubbock challenger, US

Singles main draw -
[R1] Harsh Mankad (IND,324) l (4) Michael Russell (USA,154) 36 26
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Badminton News -
At IBF WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS - MADRID, SPAIN 2006

Mens Singles -
[R1] Anup SRIDHAR (IND,36) l Sheng-Shiun LIAO (TPE,112) 21-19 16-21 13-21

Mens Doubles -
[R2] Rupesh KUMAR (IND)/ Thomas SANAVE (IND) bt (9/16) Albertus Susanto Njoto (HKG)/ Yohan Hadikusumo Wiratama (HKG) 21-17 19-21 21-19

Womens Singles -
[R2] Trupti MURGUNDE (IND,79) l (9/16) Eriko HIROSE (JPN,16) 21-6 16-21 12-21

Womens Doubles -
[R2] B R MEENAKSHI (IND)/ Trupti MURGUNDE (IND) l (9/16) Yawen ZHANG (CHN)/ Yili WEI (CHN) 2-21 7-21

[R3] Shruti S KURIAN (IND)/ Jwala P GUTTA (IND) vs (9/16) Kumiko OGURA (JPN)/ Reiko SHIOTA (JPN)