Friday, April 06, 2007

Tennis News -
2007 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group I (1st Round Play-Off)

India vs Kazakhstan 1-1

Indian Team - Leander Paes (Capt) (D -8), Rohan Bopanna (S - 263, D - 161), Karan Rastogi (S - 349, D- 690) and Divij Sharan (S - 487, D - 459)

Kazakhstan Team - Ivan Tsymbalov (Non playing Capt), Alexei Kedryuk (S - 292, D - 153), Dmitriy Makeyev (S - 1245, D - 1616), Anton Ignatchenko (UNR) and Sergey Birkin (UNR)

Day 1 -
[M1] Rohan Bopanna (IND) bt Dmitriy Makeyev (KAZ) 62 61 62
[M2] Karan Rastogi (IND) l Alexei Kedryuk (KAZ) 46 46 63 67(2)
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Golf News -
At 2007 Augusta Masters - First Round

T1 Justin Rose 69 -3
T1 Brett Wetterich 69 -3

T10 Jeev Milkha Singh 72 E
T15 Tiger Woods 73 +1
T15 Vijay Singh 73 +1
T20 Adam Scott 74 +2
T28 Jim Furyk 75 +3
T43 Phil Mickelson 76 +4
T43 Retief Goosen 76 +4
T59 Padraig Harrington 77 +5
T72 Ernie Els 78 +6
T75 Paul Casey 79 +7
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Shooting News -

Sanjeev Rajput became the seventh Indian shooter to win a berth for next year's Beijing Olympic Games in the men's 50m rifle 3 position event at the ISSF World Cup at Fort Benning, USA ... Rajput put up his best effort (also National record) by firing 1170 pts out of 1200 pts (Prone 395 pts, Standing 384 pts, Kneeling 391 pts) but finished on 11th position ... He was awarded the quota place because top ten finishers had already qualified for Olympics.

So Sanjeev Rajput joined Gagan Narang, Abhinav Bindra, Anjali Bhagwat and Avneet Kaur Sidhu in rifle events and Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore and Manavjeet Singh in the double trap and trap shotgun events, who r already qualified for Olympics.

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