Badminton News
At $50K New Zealand Open Grand Prix 2009, North Shore, Auckland

[SF] (1) Rupesh K. T. Kumar (IND)/ Sanave Thomas (IND) bt (3) Teik Chai Gan (MAS)/ Bin Shen Tan (MAS) 21-15 21-14
[SF] Aparna Balan (IND)/ Shruti Kurian (IND) l (1) Tsz Ka Chan (HKG)/ Ying Suet Tse (HKG) 19-21 15-21

[F] (1) Rupesh K. T. Kumar (IND)/ Sanave Thomas (IND) vs (4) Hirokatsu Hashimoto (JPN)/ Noriyasu Hirata (JPN)

Rupesh Kumar and Sanave Thomas take revenge of last week's loss against Malayasian team with easy straight games victory to moved in to final ... But our ladies team lost against top-seed Hong Kong pair.
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Swimming News
At 13th FINA World Championship, Rome, Italy

Day 6
Men's 50m Freestyle
44 Virdhawal Khade IND 22.79 secs +01.42 secs
111 Arjun Jayaprakash IND 24.37 secs +03.00 secs

Men's 100m Butterfly
85 Virdhawal Khade IND 55.28 secs +04.72 secs
86 Rehan Poncha IND 55.29 secs +04.73 secs

Women's 50m Butterfly
74 Chittaranjan Shubha IND 29.48 secs +04.04 secs
96 Vandita Dhariyal IND 30.65 secs +05.21 secs

Men's 4x 200m Freestyle
22 India 8:07.84
Mandar Divase 2:00.23
Virdhawal Khade 2:01.54
Rehan Poncha 2:04.98
Ashwin Menon 2:01.09

Today Vir needed to participate in 3 events and that reflected in his performance.