Monday, June 02, 2008

Tennis News -
At French Open 2008,

[R3] (9) Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) l Pablo Cuevas (URU)/ Luis Horna (PER) 46 46

MXD -
[R1] Jie Zheng (CHN)/ Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) bt Nadia Petrova (RUS)/ Leander Paes (IND) 75 64

[R2] Jie Zheng (CHN)/ Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) vs (6) Cara Black (ZIM)/ Paul Hanley (AUS)

Junior Singles -
[R1] (4) Yuki Bhambri (IND,5) l Guillaume Rufin (FRA,25) 16 26
[R1] Poojashree Venkatesh (IND,55) l Anna Orlik (BLR,26) 06 16

Junior Doubles -
[R1] (7) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Ilija Vucic (SRB) vs Giacomo Miccini (ITA)/ Borut Puc (SLO)
[R1] Aleksandra Kolesnichenko (UZB)/ Poojashree Venkatesh (IND) vs Chloe Babet (FRA)/ Charlotte Rodier (FRA)

Off-colour Lee and Lukas couldn't produced good performance against clay court specialist Cuevas and Horna ... In MXD also Lee and Petrova couldn't managed to win important points so lost match against Hesh and Zheng.

In juniors expected results as Yuki and Poojashree skipped FO preparation tournaments so it was difficult to them to adjust European clay.

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Badminton News -
At $15K Open Volant d'Or de Toulouse, France

[QF] Ajay Jayaram (IND,184) l Christian Lind Thomsen (DEN,102) 22-24 21-23
[QF] (5) Chetan Anand (IND,41) l (3) Andre Kurniawan Tedjono (INA,38) 12-21 21-10 12-21
[QF] (8) Aditi Mutatkar (IND,63) bt Elisa Chanteur (FRA,110) 15-21 10-21

[SF] (8) Aditi Mutatkar (IND,63) l (5) Olga Konon (BLR,48) 14-21 5-21

Chetan couldn't repeat last week's performance against Indonasian Tedjono ... Ajay also lost in closely fought match ... Other hand Aditi continued with her good performance and reached semis.
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Golf News -
At The Celtic Manor Wales Open - Final Standing

T10 Jeev Milkha Singh 65 68 69 71 -11 € 39324.45

Jeev missed opportunity of finishing inside top 5 and earning big pay cheque.
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At Bank of America Open - Final Standing (Nationwide Tour)

T22 Arjun Atwal 67 72 69 71 -9 $ 6,500.00

After third round Arjun was in position to finished top 10 finish but -1 last round didn't helped him to finish top instead he ended out of top 20 ... And thats also brought him down to 16th place from 13th in 2008 Nationwide Tour Money Leaders list.

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