Tennis News -
At $25K BallenIsles Womens Challenger, Palm Beach Gardens, FL, USA

[Q1] Shikha Uberoi (IND,953) bt (3) Asia Muhammed (USA,423) 61 36 76(2)
[Q2] Shikha Uberoi (IND,953) bt Anastasia Kharchenko (UKR,749) 61 61

[Q3] Shikha Uberoi (IND,953) vs (15) Svetlana Krivencheva (BUL,603)

Maindraw -
[R1] (1) Sunitha Rao (IND,164) vs Qualifier
[R1] Neha Uberoi (USA,348) vs Qualifier

Doubles -
[R1] (1) Sunitha Rao (IND)/ Raquel Kops-Jones (USA) vs (WC) Sesil Karatantcheva (BUL)/ Shareen-Rena Lai (MAS)
[R1] Neha Uberoi (USA)/ Shikha Uberoi (IND) vs Asia Muhammed (USA)/ Ashley Weinhold (USA)

Shikha is truly back ... She scored good fighting win over top-450 player in Q1 and then crushed top-750 player in Q2 ... Now she is one win away from qualifying for maindraw of Palm Beach Gardens Challenger.

So after 2 months (injury) break Neha is back on court in Palm Beach Gardens Challenger ... In doubles she is partnering sister Shikha and in singles Neha will face qualifier (can be Shikha ... ;-)) ... Neha can meet top seed Sunitha in second round if both players win their first round matches.
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Shooting News -
At 2008 ISSF WORLD CUP, Beijing, China

10-metre Air Rifle
Gold - Qinan Zhu (CHN) - 700.8 (597+103.8)
Silver - Matthew Emmons (USA) - 700.7 (599+101.7)
Bronze - Gagan Narang (IND) - 700.3 (597+103.3)

18 - Abhinav Bindra (IND) 595
20 - PT Raghunath (IND) 594

Gagan Narang won the bronze medal in the 10-metre Air Rifle event at the ISSF World Cup in Beijing on Monday ... Gold medal won by Athens Olympics gold medalist China's Qinan Zhu.
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Billiards News -
At 7th Asian Billiards Championship 2008, Yangon, Myanmar

[Final] Pankaj Advani (India) bt Rupesh Shah (India) 5-4

Pankaj won Asian billiards title in closely fought final match against Rupesh Shah ... Pankaj also become first Indian player to won the title twice.

Other Asian title winners -
1997 - Geet Sethi
2002 - Ashok Shandilya
2004 - Devendra Joshi
2005 - Pankaj Advani