Athletics News -

Krishna Poonia became the 5th Indian athlete to qualify for Bejing Olympics when she finished 4th in discuss throw in a meet in US when she threw 59.04 mts. just above the qualifying mark of 59 mtrs.

Other Indians who have qualified so far are triple jumper Renjith Maheswary, discus thrower Vikas Gowda, long jumper Anju Bobby George and heptathlete Susmita Singha Roy.
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Tennis News -
At € 2.270M Monte Carlo Masters, Monaco

[R2] (4) BHUPATHI Mahesh (IND)/ KNOWLES Mark (BAH) bt MELO Marcelo (BRA)/ SA Andre (BRA) 64 63
[R2] HANLEY Paul (AUS)/ PAES Leander (IND) l (2) ERLICH Jonathan (ISR)/ RAM Andy (ISR) 64 36 (3)10

[QF] (4) BHUPATHI Mahesh (IND)/ KNOWLES Mark (BAH) vs (5) ASPELIN Simon (SWE)/ KNOWLE Julian (AUT)

Very easy victory for Hesh and Mark against Brazilian clay court specialists ... Lee and Paul started well with winning first set but then couldn't managed to convert that good start in to win.
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At $100K XL Bermuda Open, Paget (Green Clay)

[R1] AMRITRAJ Stephen (IND)/ SELA Dudi (ISR) l (WC) JONES Greg (AUS)/ YOUNG Donald (USA) 16 26

Surprisingly one sided loss for Stephen and Dudi.
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At U-16 Asia -Oceania Federation Cup Qualifying Tournament, Shenzen, China

India l China 1-2

Natasha Palha (IND) l Hao Chen Tang (CHN) 06 36
Ratnika Batra (IND) bt Xiao Rong Dong 62 60
Ratnika Batra (IND)/ Prarthna Thombre (IND) l Hao Chen Tang (CHN)/ Fan Wang (CHN)

Oh, so second week in a row we lost against lowly ranked Chinese team in 2 different events ... But now here we r having tough task to qualify for World Group as we r facing (mostly) top seed Japan in quarter-finals.
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At $10K Spain F9, Torrent (clay)

[R1] NAGARAJ Sandhya (IND,559) l (Q) SALAS-LOZANO Ana (ESP,964) 46 16

Not a good result as Sandhya lost in straight sets against local qualifier.
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Squash News -
At $200K Kuwait Open

[Q2] Saurav Ghosal (Ind,51) l Daryl Selby (Eng,35) 8-11 11-5 5-11 6-11 (65m)
[Q2] Ritwik Bhattacharya (Ind,64) l Julian Illingworth (Usa,39) 7-11 4-11 9-11 (42m)

This time also Saurav couldn't turned table on Selby ... Ritwik also couldn't find his first qualifying round touch.