Tennis News -
At $475K China Open, Beijing

[Q1] (2) BOPANNA Rohan (IND,261) bt MARTIN David (USA,683) 67(5) 63 64
[Q2] (2) BOPANNA Rohan (IND,261) bt RATIWATANA Sonchat (THA,NR) 64 63

[Q3] (2) BOPANNA Rohan (IND,261) vs KING Phillip(USA,403)

Doubles -
[R1] (1) BHUPATHI Mahesh (IND)/ BOPANNA Rohan (IND) vs HAGGARD Chris (RSA)/ LU Yen-Hsun (TPE)
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At the $225K Commonwealth Bank Tennis Classic WTA, Bali, Indonesia (Tier-III)

[Q1] Sunitha Rao (IND,220) l (3) Sorana Cirstea (ROU,138) 26 46
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Golf News -
At Omega European Masters, Crans Montana, Switzerland - Third Round

T47 SINGH Jeev Milkha 74 68 72 +1
72 KAPUR Shiv 72 72 76 +7
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At Omega European Masters, Crans Montana, Switzerland - Final Standing

T31 SINGH Jeev Milkha 74 68 72 68 -2 € 15800.00
T66 KAPUR Shiv 72 72 76 70 +6 € 4400.00
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Hockey News -
At the 6th Asia Cup Women's Hockey Championship, Hong Kong

Final -
Japan bt Korea 7-6 (in Sudden death)

Bronze Medal Match -
India l China 2-4

Goal Scorers - Ma Yi Bo 2, Song Qing Ling, Li Hong Xia (China), Suman Bala, Jasjeet Kaur (India)
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At 2007 Asia Cup Mens Hockey, Chennai, India

Final -
India bt Korea 7-2

3rd Place match -
Malaysia bt Japan 5-3

5th Place match -
China bt Pakistan 3-2

I was avoiding writing anything about India's mens hockey because of poor state of it and horrible administration last few years ... But today's final match changed my mind and make sure I write something positive about it.

Agree it’s too early to predict anything from this team against top European and Australian teams, BUT TODAY WE OUTPLAYED KOREA, who were here with their full strength team, THATS REALITY.

Frankly I don't remember when last time I saw such fluent performance by our team ... We were superb in passing, interception, releasing ball early, speed, follow up to support other players, also defense was good ... I was awe seeing our team's this performance ... Our forwardline was looking opportunistic, goals from Sunil Kumar and Rajpal were some of examples .. Also co-ordination between players were superb, one should watch goal from Prabodh Tirkey to see co-ordination between him and Prabhojot ... Our forwardline played unselfish game and passing balls to our partner who was in better position to score.

Yeah our coach need to work on some issues like PC conversion, defense, tackling, temper on the field, players get relaxed in end of every half ... But today our team and coach, Joaquim Carvalho, deserve all the praises they r receiving ... I m also saluting to our team.