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At SCG Thomas & Uber Cup 2010 Preliminary Asia Zone, Thailand

Thomas Cup - Quarter Finals

India bt Vietnam 3-0

Parupalli Kashyap (IND,30) bt Hoang Nam Nguyen (VIE,139) 20-22 21-10 21-18 (45 mins)
Arvind Bhatt (IND,33) bt Cao Hieu Pham (VIE,128) 16-21 21-7 21-10 (39 mins)
Anup Sridhar (IND,39) bt Vinh Huynh (VIE,UNR) 21-13 21-6 (21 mins)
Sanave Thomas (IND)/ Rupesh Kumar (IND) vs Cao Hieu Pham (VIE)/ Duc Duong Bao (VIE)
V Diju (IND)/ Chetan Anand (IND) vs Hoang Nam Nguyen (VIE)/ Vinh Huynh (VIE)

Uber Cup - Group Y

India bt Philippines 5-0

Saina Nehwal (IND,7) bt Malvinne Ann Venice Alcala (PHI,167) 21-9 21-13 (26 mins)
Sayali Gokhale (IND,59) bt Gelita Castilo (PHI,292) 21-9 21-16 (26 mins)
Trupti Murgunde (IND,61) bt Dia Nicole Magno (PHI,UNR) 21-4 21-8 (17 mins)
Jwala Gutta (IND)/Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) bt Malvinne Ann Venice Alcala (PHI)/ Gelita Castilo (PHI) 21-15 21-11 (22 mins)
Saina Nehwal (IND)/ Aparna Balan (IND) bt Dia Nicole Magno (PHI)/ Jamila Fatima Cruz (PHI) 21-9 21-13 (19 mins)

Indian men team is in semis of Thomas Cup 2010 Preliminary Asia Zone tournament ... Today they defeated Vietnamese 3-0 ... Chetan Anand was rested in singles for this match but Parupalli Kashyap and Arvind Bhatt stretched to 3 games by their opponents, who r almost more than 100 places below in ranking of their Indian opponents.

So today our women team scored very comfortable win over Philippines ... Their tomorrow's last match against Chinese Taipei will decide second team from Group Y, who will qualify for semi-final with group winner Japan ... Both team need win to qualify for the semis, so high stake match for both team.