Wednesday, April 08, 2009

Tennis News
At €450K Grand Prix Hassan II, Casablanca, Morocco (Red Clay)

[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Lovro Zovko (CRO) l Thomaz Bellucci (BRA)/ Eric Butorac (USA) 67(4) 36

Was hoping better performance by this Indo-German pair.

Next week Rohan is playing with Aisam at $100K+H Johannesburg Challenger in South Africa ... Hopefully they will continue with their good run at challengers level.

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At $50K Lousiana Challenger, Baton Rouge, USA

[R1] (8) Somdev DevVarman (IND,150) bt Kyu Tae Im (KOR,255) 67(4) 62 62
[R1] (WC) Rajeev Ram (USA,191) bt Nick Lindahl (AUS,297) 63 64

[R2] (8) Somdev DevVarman (IND,150) vs (WC) Lester Cook (USA,335)
[R2] (WC) Rajeev Ram (USA,191) vs Jose De Armas (VEN,269)

Good comeback win by Som against similar style tricky Korean opponent ... In second round he is facing American wild card player Lester Cook, against him Som lost in their previous meeting at qualifier of Champaign Challenger in 2008.

Rajeev also started well with straight sets victory.

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Football News
At the AFC Cup 2009, (7th April 2009)

Group D

Mohun Bagan l Kuwait SC, Kuwait 0-1

Goal Scored - Samer J.A.S. Almartah (KSC) 61'

Mohun Bagan's disastrous performance in AFC Cup 2009 continued ... Yesterday they lost against Kuwaiti clup by single goal and after 3 matches they r still bottom of the group D.
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Group E
Al Muharraq, Bahrain dw Dempo SC 1-1

Goal Scored - Abdulla Adnan Saleh Salman Aldakeel (AlM) 90+' and Ranty Martins Soleye (DSC) 77'

Dempo were unlucky to draw their match ... They were leading by a Ranty Martins's strike until last minute of the match ... But last few minutes rough game costed victory .. Still creditable performance to draw away match.

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