Tennis News -
At $1.401M Dubai Tennis Championships, UAE

[F] (4) BHUPATHI Mahesh (IND)/ KNOWLES Mark (BAH) bt (3) Martin DAMM (CZE)/ Pavel VIZNER (CZE) 75 76(7)

Excellent quality match between these 2 teams ... Both teams fought until end without giving much to other team ... Frankly it was difficult to mentioned who had bad day, both teams were deserve to win ... Mark and Hesh increased their game level few notches when required that was difference between these teams.

Damm and Vizner saved 2 match points in tie-break but Mark and Hesh managed to convert 3rd ... Simply high quality doubles match.
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Badminton News -
At $5K Croatian International 2008, Zagreb

[QF] Anand PAWAR (IND,111) l Ville LANG (FIN,88) 21-15 18-21 13-21
[QF] Aditi MUTATKAR (IND,89) bt (Q) Patty STOLZENBACH (NED,113) 21-19 21-13

[R2] Akshay DEWALKAR (IND)/ Diju V (IND) bt Konstantin DOBREV (BUL)/ Stiliyan MAKARSKI (BUL) 21-16 21-12
[R2] (1) Rupesh KUMAR (IND)/ Sanave THOMAS (IND) bt Rene NICHTERWITZ (AUT)/ David OBERNOSTERER (AUT) 21-6 21-12

[QF] (1) Rupesh KUMAR (IND)/ Sanave THOMAS (IND) bt Dave KHODABUX (NED)/ Lester OEY (NED) 21-12 21-16
[QF] Akshay DEWALKAR (IND)/ Diju V (IND) bt Martin BEYER (DEN)/ Maxime RENAULT (FRA) 21-11 21-16

[SF] Aditi MUTATKAR (IND,89) vs (Q) Kaori IMABEPPU (JPN,139)

[SF] (1) Rupesh KUMAR (IND)/ Sanave THOMAS (IND) vs Vladimir METODIEV (BUL)/ Krasimir YANKOV (BUL)
[SF] Akshay DEWALKAR (IND)/ Diju V (IND) vs Jakub BITMAN CZE)/ Zvonimir ÐURKINJAK (CRO)

Anand couldn't convert good start in to the win ... But Aditi taking full advantage of weak draw, now in the semis she is playing another qualifier, who defeated 2nd seed top-45 European player in first round.

In doubles both teams r on course of meeting in the final, now need another one win to meet in the final.