Friday, April 25, 2008

Tennis News -
At € 2.270M Monte Carlo Masters, Monaco

[QF] (4) BHUPATHI Mahesh (IND)/ KNOWLES Mark (BAH) bt (5) ASPELIN Simon (SWE)/ KNOWLE Julian (AUT) 62 63

[SF] (4) BHUPATHI Mahesh (IND)/ KNOWLES Mark (BAH) vs COETZEE Jeff (RSA)/ MOODIE Wesley (RSA)

Very dominating performance by Hesh and Mark against 5th seed Aspelin and Knowle ... In complete match they won 56/90 points (62%) against 34/90 (38%) points ... Hesh and Mark didn't face single break point on their serves and other hand they converted 4 of 5 break points on Aspelin and Knowle serves.

Unseeded pair of Moodie/ Coetzee scored upset comeback win over top seed and defending champion Bryans in super-tiebreak ... After last week's Estoril title Moodie/ Coetzee r on seven-match winning streak on clay ... So tricky match for Hesh and Mark against this hot pair.

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At $50K Baton Rouge Challenger, LA, USA

[QF] (4) GHOUSE Mustafa (IND)/ WARBURG Sam (USA) l (WC) SIMMONDS Phillip (USA)/ SMYCZEK Tim (USA) 57 26

Mustafa and Sam lost in straight sets against wild card pair ... This was winnable match for these experienced players.
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At $15K China F4 Futures, Taizhou

[QF] RASTOGI Karan (IND,480) l MATSUI Toshihide (JPN,477) 64 26 46

Another needless loss ... Karan should win these matches.
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Golf News -
At BMW Asian Open, Shanghai, China - Second Round

T16 Jeev Milkha Singh 68 76 PAR
T29 CHOWRASIA S S P 72 73 + 1
T39 KAPUR Shiv 71 75 + 2
T39 SINGH Digvijay 74 72 + 2
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T67 GANGJEE Rahil 73 75 + 4
T67 GHEI Gaurav 74 74 + 4
T67 RANDHAWA Jyoti 75 73 + 4
T118 JOHL Amandeep 78 74 +8

Today only around 20 players managed to score below PAR round ... But not a single Indian managed to do that.

Jyoti, Gaurav and Rahil missed cut by a single stroke ... For Amandeep, it was impossible to make cut after poor first round ... From Indian golfer best round, PAR, scored by Digvijay.

Jeev had bad day, he scored 4 bogeys on front 9 and 2 bogeys on back 9 but he also managed birdies on 9th and 18th holes to end day on +4 ... So after 2 rounds he is inside top 20 with PAR score.

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