Tennis News -
At $200K DFS Classic, Birmingham, Great Britain (Grass)

Another excellent comeback victory over local girl for Sunitha to move into 3rd round ... And with this win she is keeping Indian flag flying in singles ... After losing first set Sunitha controlled the match and didn't give much chance to Naomi breaking her serve early in each set ... So with this win Sunitha accumulate 24 WTA points which help her to push her ranking around 150 in WTA singles.

Sunitha is playing against top-30 rank Alona Bondarenko in round 3, who defeated doubles specialist Spanish Virginia Ruano Pascual in tight match.

[R2] (Q) Sunitha Rao (IND,160) bt (WC) Naomi Cavaday (GBR,196) 46 63 61
[R3] (Q) Sunitha Rao (IND,160) vs (5) Alona Bondarenko (UKR,29)

[R2] (6) Sania Mirza (IND,33) l Marina Erakovic (NZL,64) 36 06

Doubles -
[R1] (4) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Bethanie Mattek (USA) l Natalie Grandin (RUS)/ Raquel Kops-Jones (USA) 46 63 (4)10

In Sania's match Marina didn't give any chance to Sania ... Marina didn't face a single break point on her serve, other hand Sania faced 9 and Marina converted 4 ... Marina won 58 points against Sania's 34 ... Thats tell us all story of the match.

With doubles loss early end of week for Sania in her comeback tournament after wrist surgery.
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Football News -
At SAFF Championship 2008, Male, Maldives - 3rd June to 14th June 2008

India bt Bhutan 2-1 (1-1) ET
Goal Scored - Sunil Chetri (IND) 31', Gouramangi Singh (IND) 120+' and Kinley Dorji (BHU) 20'

Very scrappy performance by our players ... We struggled in the match ... Our defense was shaky ... Bhutia had terrible day though he was marked by Bhutanese he missed numerous easy chances.

But Bhutanese also played well to take deserving lead and fought until end ... We were lucky to finish match in extra time and Bhutanese were unlucky to lose in such fashion.
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Badminton News -
At AVIVA SINGAPORE SUPER SERIES 2008

[R1] Saina NEHWAL (IND,30) bt Jie YAO (NED,17) 21-19 19-21 21-13
[R1] Anup SRIDHAR (IND,32) bt Yu Hsin HSIEH (TPE,51) 22-20 19-21 21-11
[R1] Arvind BHAT (IND,44) bt (5) Przemyslaw WACHA (POL,11) 13-21 21-13 21-14

[R2] Saina NEHWAL (IND,30) vs (Q) Juan GU (SIN,147)
[R2] Anup SRIDHAR (IND,32) vs Sairul Amar AYOB (MAS,28)
[R2] Arvind BHAT (IND,44) vs Joachim PERSSON (DEN,16)

Doubles -
[R1] Saina NEHWAL (IND)/ Anna RICE (CAN) l (8) Lena FRIER KRISTIANSEN (DEN)/ Kamilla RYTTER JUHL (DEN) 18-21 13-21

After long time we r seeing good performance by Indian players in Super Series, that's also our 2 players scored quality victories over top-20 players.

Tomorrow Saina will face local 100+ rank player in second round ... Arvind will face another top-20 European player but this time Danish ... Anup facing similar rank player but in the past he struggled against Malaysian players, so interesting to see tomorrow how he perform against them after his new coaching stint.