Tennis News -
At Australian Open 2008,

MXD Final -
Sania Mirza (IND)/ Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) l (5) Tiantian Sun (CHN)/ Nenad Zimonjic (SRB) 67(4) 46

In the final Mahesh was struggling with his serve and that was major difference between these 2 teams ... But successful Australian Open for Mahesh, who reached semis in men’s doubles & final in MXD ... Sania must be happy with her performance, as she reached 3rd round of singles & women’s doubles and also final of MXD ... Rohan also had satisfied tournament, who reached singles qualifying final round and also reached third round of men’s doubles, this was his first-ever chance of playing maindraw of any grand slam tournament.
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At $50K China TCL Challenger, Guangzhou

[Q1] RASTOGI Karan (IND,469) l ELESKOVIC Ervin (SWE,560) 36 26
[Q1] SHOKEEN Vivek (IND,699) bt THOMPSON Nathan (USA,638) 36 64 62

[Q2] SHOKEEN Vivek (IND,699) vs NAM Hyun-Woo (KOR,539)

Maindraw -
[R1] BOPANNA Rohan (IND,292) vs (5) UDOMCHOKE Danai (THA,153)
[R1] AMRITRAJ Prakash (IND,278) vs (2) LU Yen-Hsun (TPE,112)

Doubles -
[R1] AMRITRAJ Prakash (IND)/ GHOUSE Mustafa (IND) vs FISCHER Martin (AUT)/ OSWALD Philipp (AUT)
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At $10K Great Britain F3, Tipton

[Q1] Harsh Mankad (IND,UNR) bt Ben Dunbar (GBR,UNR) 61 63
[Q1] (3) Navdeep Singh (IND,743) Bye
[Q1] (5) Purav Raja (IND,864) Bye

[Q2] Harsh Mankad (IND,UNR) bt (14) Edward Allinson (GBR,1058) 62 64
[Q2] (3) Navdeep Singh (IND,743) bt Rogan Egerton (GBR, UNR) 62 62
[Q2] (5) Purav Raja (IND,864) bt Frederik Sletting-Johnsen (NOR, 1303) 75 57 62

Excellent work by Harsh wining 2 matches in a day ... So now in the final qualifying round he will mostly play against top seed British Chris Eaton (#657) ... Good start for Navdeep and Purav also.
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Golf News -
At Qatar Masters, Doha, Qatar - Final Standing (EPGA Tour)

T7 RANDHAWA Jyoti 70 70 72 66 -10 € 37915.11
T47 KAPUR Shiv 73 68 74 69 - 4 € 8210.19
T56 SINGH Jeev Milkha 74 71 73 68 - 2 € 5259.65
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At Panama Championship - Third Round (Nationwide Tour)

1 Arjun Atwal 70 66 68 -6
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Hockey News -
At 8 Nations U21 Invitational Tournament, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Final -
India l Australia 2-3

Goal Scored - Diwakar Ram (IND) (PC) 16', Mandeep Antil (IND) 62' and Aaron Kleinschmidt (AUS) 44' & 52', Mathew Buttunni (AUS) 66'

For 3rd position -
Germany bt Holland 3-1

For 5th position -
Pakistan bt New Zealand 8-3

For 7th position -
Malaysia bt South Korea 2-1

The Australians upped their game yesterday and attacked from the word go ... And three goals in the second half did the trick against an Indian side who lacked the aggression to match the Australians ... The Indians were kept pegged in defence and goalkeeper P.R. Sreejesh was the player to beat ... He saved no fewer than four clear attempts at goal and also warded off two penalty corner attempts by the Australians in the first half.

Diwakar Ram scored 12 goals in the tournament.
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Football News -
At I-League 2007-2008, India

Air India dw Mohun Bagan 0-0

MoM - Alvito D’Cunah (MB)
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East Bengal bt Dempo Sports Club 1-0

Goal Scored - Mahesh Gawli (DSC) 68' (own goal)