Badminton News
At US$200K AVIVA Open Singapore Super Series 2009,

[R2] (6) Saina Nehwal (IND,7) bt Adrianti Firdasari (INA,19) 21-18 17-21 21-17
[R2] (Q) Anup Sridhar (IND,39) bt (2) Peter Hoeg Gade (DEN,2) 21-19 16-21 21-13

[QF] (6) Saina Nehwal (IND,7) vs (3) Lin Wang (CHN,4)
[QF] (Q) Anup Sridhar (IND,39) vs Boonsak Ponsana (THA,19)

Huge win for Anup against WR #2 Peter Gade, who was WR # 1 in 1999 to 2001 and also All England Champion in 2001 ... In my memory this was biggest win by Indian shuttler against current top-2 player in singles.

Anup started match positively and was up 6-0, but Gade equalled it at 10-all ... Then Anup take crucial lead winning 4 points on a row from 16-17 to won first game .. In second game Gade take control of the game from 9-all and kept lead to won this second game ... Third game was close until 13-all but from their Anup didn't gave any chance to Gade and won next 8 points to finished this match in 59 minutes ... In quarter he is facing Thai #1 Boonsak Ponsana.

Saina managed victory in closely fought 3 games ... Saina needed 49 minutes to overcome challenge of her Indonasian opponentclose match ... In quarters she will face WR #4 Chinese opponent Lin Wang.
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Hockey News
At FIH Men's Junior World Cup 2009, Singapore & Malaysia
Group D
10 June
Poland bt Singapore 2-1

11 June
India l Netherlands 2-3

Goal scored - Mandeep Antil (IND) 5', Innocent Kullu (IND) 54' PC and Weerden (NED) 10' PC, 14' PC & 52' PC

Indian boys r in position to miss semi-final birth in this on going Junior World Cup ... Today we played poor hockey, we had ample chances and numerous penalty corners ... We had 9 penalty corners and converted 1, other hand Dutch side had 5 and converted 3 ... We were making silly mistakes inside 25-yard line ... Tomorrow New Zeland boys need only draw to making semis with Dutch boys.