Thursday, December 20, 2007

Tennis News -
At $15K(+H) Nigeria F4 Mens Futures 2007, Lagos

[R2] (3) SIPAEYA Sunil-Kumar (IND,435) bt (Q) NORTEY Michael (GHA,UNR) 61 61

[QF] (3) SIPAEYA Sunil-Kumar (IND,435) vs (5) LEONTE Bogdan-Victor (ROU,509)

Doubles -
[QF] ROY Rupesh (IND)/ MCGAHON John (IRL) bt (4) LEONTE Bogdan-Victor (ROU)/ SLABINSKY Alexander (GBR) 36 63 10(8)

[SF] ROY Rupesh (IND)/ MCGAHON John (IRL) vs BABALOLA Abdul-Mumin (NGR)/ IGBINOVIA Jonathan (NGR)
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At $25K Womens Lagos Challenger II, Nigeria

[R2] (7) LAKHANI Isha (IND,362) l DU PLESSIS Lizaan (RSA,605) 63 06 46
[R2] APPINENI Prerana-Mythri (IND,796) l (4) SZATMARI Agnes (ROU,312) 16 26

Doubles -
[QF] APPINENI Prerana-Mythri (IND)/ DAY Tamara (RSA) bt ABINU Fatimah (NGR)/ IBRAHIM Sabath (NGR) 36 75 10(7)

[SF] APPINENI Prerana-Mythri (IND)/ DAY Tamara (RSA) vs (1) KURYANOVICH Iryna (BLR)/ SZATMARI Agnes (ROU)
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Motor Sports -
GP2 Series season 2008 -

Really big opportunity for Karun as race driver for iSport International team, who is current Constructor Champion in GP2 Series and also their driver Timo Glock won Driver Championship ( in 2008 he is joining Formula1 Toyota team as a race driver.).

Year 2007 becoming break-through year for Indian Motor Sports as Karun winning Sprint Race at Spa in GP2 Series, Narain winning Feature Race in A1 GP at China, Mr. Mallya becoming owner of Force India (old Spyker) team and serious chance of F1 race going to happen in 2 yrs time in India (also talk is going on for A1 GP road race in near future on border of Rajasthan and Haryana.).
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Chess News -

So atlast its confirmed, the World Chess Championship will be held from October 11 to 30, 2008 in Bonn, Germany between Current World Champion India's Viswanathan Anand and his challenger from Russia's Vladimir Kramnik (who will be WR No. 1 in January ELO points list).

The match will consist of twelve games, played under classical time controls, in the period from Oct. 11 to Oct. 28, 2008 ... If there is a tie at the end of these games a tiebreak will be played on Oct. 30, 2008.

The prize money will be distributed equally between the players, is 1.5 million Euro (approximately 2.1 million US Dollars) including taxes and FIDE licensee fees.
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Football News -
At I-League 2007-2008, India

Salgaocar dw Mahindra United 0-0

MoM - Sukhwinder Singh (MU)
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Viva Kerala dw Sporting Clube de Goa 0-0

MoM - Tutu George (VK)
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2007-08 ONGC I-League Team Standings (after 6 rounds)

Pos Team P W D L GF GA PTS GD
1 Dempo Sports Club 6 4 2 0 10 2 14 +8
2 JCT Phagwara 6 3 3 0 8 2 12 +6
3 Churchill Brothers 6 3 1 2 13 10 10 +3
4 Viva Kerala 6 2 3 1 7 5 9 +2
5 Kingfisher East Bengal 6 2 1 3 10 11 7 -1
6 Mahindra United 6 1 4 1 5 6 7 -1
7 Air India 6 1 3 2 4 5 6 -1
8 McDowell Mohun Bagan 6 1 2 3 7 10 5 -3
9 Salgaocar Sports Club 6 0 3 3 5 11 3 -6
10 Sporting Clube De goa 6 0 3 3 2 9 3 -7

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