Tennis News
At $10K Dominican Republic F2, Santo Domingo

[R1] Rupesh Roy (IND,563) vs (Q) Sandro Ehrat (SUI,771)
[R1] (8) Yuki Bhambri (IND,515) bt Phillip Simmonds (USA,588) 76(4) 63

Doubles
[R1] Takanyi Garanganga (ZIM)/ Rupesh Roy (IND) bt Jaroslaw Bienkowski (POL)/ Adam Majchrowicz (POL) 75 61

[QF] Takanyi Garanganga (ZIM)/ Rupesh Roy (IND) vs Piero Luisi (VEN)/ Roman Recarte (VEN)

Good win in straight sets for Yuki in tricky match against experienced journeyman on futures, who was top-225 player few years back ... Rupesh started with win with his Zimbabwean partner in doubles.

Tennis News
At ATP World Tour Doubles Final 2010, London, Great Britain

Doubles Final
(3) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Max Mirnyi (BLR) l (2) Daniel Nestor (CAN)/ Nenad Zimonjic (SRB) 67(6) 46

After giving valiant effort in the first set Mahesh and Max lost in close tie-break ... Nestor and Zimo won second set with a break to lift another ATP World Tour Finals title ... Other hand another time Mahesh failed to win this year-end prestigious tournament, so his search for first title of this tournament continue.
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At $10K Dominican Republic F2, Santo Domingo

[R1] Rupesh Roy (IND,563) vs Qualifier
[R1] (8) Yuki Bhambri (IND,515) vs Phillip Simmonds (USA,588)

Doubles
[R1] Takanyi Garanganga (ZIM)/ Rupesh ROY (IND) vs Jaroslaw Bienkowski (POL)/ Adam Majchrowicz (POL)

After winning first round Rupesh can meet 2nd seed top-330 Dutch opponent Matwe Middelkoop, who was runne-up in last week Dominican Republic F1 ... Yuki having tricky first round match against former top-300 Simmonds ... He is again in same draw with local top-seed and last week's winner Victor Estrella.

Tennis News
At ATP World Tour Doubles Final 2010, London, Great Britain

[SF] (2) Daniel Nestor (CAN)/ Nenad Zimonjic (SRB) bt (1) Bob Bryan (USA)/ Mike Bryan (USA) 63 36 12-10
[SF] (3) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Max Mirnyi (BLR) bt (6) Mariusz Fyrstenberg (POL)/ Marcin Matkowski (POL) 64 64

[F] (3) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Max Mirnyi (BLR) vs (2) Daniel Nestor (CAN)/ Nenad Zimonjic (SRB)

Mahesh and Max scored straight sets victory over Polish pair to moved final of ATP World Tour Doubles Final ... In this match they faced 4 break points but saved all, other hand they created 11 break point opportunities to broke opponents twice ... In the final they r facing WR #2 pair of Nestor and Zimo, with whom they lost in group match.
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At $35K+H Toyota Challenger, Japan

Doubles Final
(1) Treat Conrad Huey (PHI)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt Tasuku Iwami (JPN)/ Hiroki Kondo (JPN) 61 62

Purav and Treat scored dominating victory over their Japanese opponents only losing 3 games to win Toyota Challenger doubles title ... Frankly in this challenger they never face any challenge ... In first round against Vishnu and Divij they lost 7 games in a match and those were highest number of games in a match.

Asian Games News
At 2010 Asian Games, Guangzhou, China

Today India won 4 Gold, 3 Silver and 5 Bronze medals that lifted India to 6th position in Medal Standing ... India is having 14 Gold, 17 Silver and 33 Bronze medals ... We r having total 64 medals so we improved past record of winning total Gold and total medals ... In 1982 Delhi Asian games we won 13 Gold medals in total 57 medals ... So with that we r finishing our highest place in standing, i.e. on 6th position with highest Gold medals and total medals ... Congratulation to Indian contingent for creditable performance after playing big tournament, Commonwealth Games, just before a month.

In athletics our Women's 4 x 400m Relay team - Manjeet Kaur, Sini Jose, Ashwini Akkunji and Mandeep Kaur - managed to repeat their Commonwealth Gold medal run ... Today they won taking lead of a second over 2nd place Kazakhstan ... Again Ashwini ran excellent 3rd leg and that helped Mandeep to kept lead over Kazak ... This was Ashwini's 2nd Gold medal after her 400m Hurdles victory ... In Women's 5000m Final our both runners gave personal best timing to finished on 2nd and 3rd position ... Preeja Sreedharan was just 0.40 sec behind Gold medalist clocking 15:15.89 and Kavita Raut finished on third with 15:16.54 timing ... Excellent result for Preeja and Kavita.

Otherwise disappointing performance in athletics ... In Mens 4X100 we missed Bronze by 0.01 sec ... We finished race in 39.10 behind Bronze medalist Thai, whoc clocked 39.09 ... Our Men's 4 x 400m Relay team ended on 4th position with 3:06.49 ... In Men's Triple Jump Renjith Maheshwari jumped 16.76m to finished on 4th ... In Men's Shot Put Om Prakas managed to throw 19.17m to finished on 4th position ... In 10,000M Suresh Kumar ran a PB timing of 28.59.98 but that placed him 8th in final standing ... In Womens 4 x 100 M Relay we finished on 5th position.

In boxing in Men's 75kg Vijender Singh played control bout against Uzbek's Abbos Atoev ... Vijender sticked to basic in this bout and won all rounds with 2-0, 3-0 and 2-0 margin to won bout 7-0 to gave India their 2nd Gold medal in boxing ... In 64kg category our young boxer Santosh Kumar toued by Kazakhstan boxer Daniyar Yeleussinov ... Daniyar scored very impressive one-sided victory over Sanotsh Kumar, who wasn't inthe match from the start and lost 1-16 ... In Super Heavyweight Men's 91kg Manpreet Singh also lost easily against Syrian boxer Mohammad Ghossoun ... Mohammad didn't give Manpreet any chance in 8-1 win.

So in Boxing we finished with 2 Gold, 3 Silver and 4 Bronze medals ... I was expecting 3 Gold medals but overall satisfying performance by our bpxers.

In Kabaddi we won both men's and women's events ... This was expectation from the start but as expected both Iranian team gave us tough fight ... In Women's final we defeated Thailand 28-14 and Men's final we defeated Iran 37-20, where Iranians tried spirited comeback in second-half.

In Roller skating we recieved surprising 2 medals from Anup Kumar Yama, who finished 3rd in Men's Single Free Skating Long Program with 244.2 pts ... Then with Avani Bharath Kumar Panchal he won Bronze in Pairs Skating.

In chess our men side defeated Iran 3.5-0.5 to won Bronze but otherhand our women recieved another shocking defeat on hands of Vietnamese girls in tie-break after 2-2 draw.

In Men's volleyball we finished on respectable sixth position ... China defeated us in 5th position match 3-0, 18-25 17-25 18-25.

In wrestling only Suman Kundu managed to qualify for medal round but she lost easily in her bronze medal bout to a Chinese, 0-5.

Boxing - Men's 75kg
Gold - Vijender Singh (IND)
Silver - Abbos Atoev (UZB)
Bronze - Mohammad Sattarpour (IRI) and Danabek Suzhanov (KAZ)

Athletics - Women's 4 x 400m Relay Final
Gold - India 3:29.02
Silver - Kazakhstan 3:30.03
Bronze - China 3:30.89

Kabaddi - Women
Gold - India
Silver - Thailand
Bronze - Bangladesh and Iran

Kabaddi - Men
Gold - India
Silver - Iran
Bronze - Pakistan and Japan

Athletics - Women's 5000m Final
Gold - Mimi Belete Gebregeiorges (BRN) 15:15.59 PB
Silver - Preeja Sreedharan (IND) 15:15.89 PB
Bronze - Kavita Raut (IND) 15:16.54 PB

Boxing - Men's 64kg
Gold - Daniyar Yeleussinov (KAZ)
Silver - Santosh Kumar Virothu (IND)
Bronze - Wuttichai Masuk (THA) and Sanjarbek Rahmanov (UZB)

Boxing - Men's 91kg
Gold - Mohammad Ghossoun (SYR)
Silver - Manpreet Singh (IND)
Bronze - Ali Mazaheri (IRI) and Jakhon Qurbonov (TJK)

Roller Sports - Men's Single Free Skating Long Program
Gold - Shingo Nishiki (JPN) 253.8 pts
Silver - Chia Chen Yeh (TPE) 248.4
Bronze - Anup Kumar Yama (IND) 244.2 pts

Roller Sports - Pairs Skating
Gold - Yawen Lin/ Yunqin Tang (CHN)
Silver - Tzu Hsia Weng/ Li Hsin Chen (TPE)
Bronze - Anup Kumar Yama/ Avani Bharath Kumar Panchal (IND)

Chess - Men's Team
Gold - China
Silver - Philippines
Bronze - India

Boxing - Women's 69-75kg
Gold - Jinzi Li (CHN)
Silver - Undram Erdenesoyol (MGL)
Bronze - Kavita Goyat (IND) and Suyeon Seong (KOR)

Tennis News
Tennis News
At ATP World Tour Doubles Final 2010, London, Great Britain

Group B
Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Max Mirnyi (BLR) bt Wesley Moodie (RSA)/ Dick Norman (SWE) 64 64

[SF] (1) Bob Bryan (USA)/ Mike Bryan (USA) vs (2) Daniel Nestor (CAN)/ Nenad Zimonjic (SRB)
[SF] (3) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Max Mirnyi (BLR) vs (6) Mariusz Fyrstenberg (POL)/ Marcin Matkowski (POL)

Mhesh and Max sticked to their task in last group match ... They scored comfortable straight sets win over Moodie and Norman to moved into ATP World Tour Doubles Final ... In other match Nestor and Zimo lost so our pair qualified topping the Group B.

In semis they r facing 6th seed Polish pair, who qualified at #2 from group A and other semis will be seen between top 2 doubles teams.
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At $35K+H Toyota Challenger, Japan

[SF] (1) Treat Conrad Huey (PHI)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt Yuichi Ito (JPN)/ Daniel Yoo (KOR) 62 62

[F] (1) Treat Conrad Huey (PHI)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Tasuku Iwami (JPN)/ Hiroki Kondo (JPN)

Top-seed pair of Purav and Treat r on roll here ... They scored another convincing easy victory to moved into the final ... In the final they r facing local unseeded pair.
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At $10K Dominican Republic F1, Santo Domingo

[QF] (7) Yuki Bhambri (IND,515) l (1) Victor Estrella (DOM,218) 26 06

Loss was expected but disappointing efforts from Yuki in this match ... Overall he struggled in this futures from start against lower ranked players also.

Asian Games News
At 2010 Asian Games, Guangzhou, China

After winning 3 Gold medals India moved to 8th position with 10 Gold, 14 Silver and 29 Bronze medals.

In athletics in Women's 400m Hurdles Final Ashwini Akkunji produced personal best timing to win Gold medal ... So this is our first Gold medal in 400m Hurdles after 24 yrs when P.T. Usha won it ... Jauna Murmu also clocked personal best timing, 56.88, but she missed bronze medal by 0.06 sec.

In athletics in Men's 400m Hurdles Final Joseph Abraham clocked his season best timing below 50 sec to won Gold medal.

In Women's 800m Final, I was expecting Gold from Tintu but she couldn't produce her personal best timing and finished third behind Kazakhstan and Vietnam runners who clocked personal best timing ... In Women's 200m Final Geetha Satti finished on 5th position with 23.91 timing, this was her season best timing ... Men's 200m Final Sathya Suresh finished on 7th place with 21.07 timing.

In boxing in Men's 60kg category 18 yrs old Vikas Krishan won his first Asian game Gold medal in closely fought match against local favourite Qing Hu ... After first round both boxers were equal with 1-all .. In second round Vikas scored important points to won it 3-2 and in end that turned crucial as in third round both boxers managed to score 1 pt ... So Vikas won this gold medal bout 5-4 ... But in Men's 81kg Dinesh Kumar couldn't manage to produce much fight against Uzbek after first round ... He lost bout easily 4-10 to remained happy with Silver.

Indian men managed to win Bronze medal in field hockey beating South Korea ... This was good result after their poor unexpected loss against Malaysian side ... Tushar Khandekar scored important goal in 40th minte and that was the only goal scored in the match ... Pakistan won gold medal beating Malaysian side 2-0 and grabbed Olympics quota.

In wrestling in Men's Freestyle 96 kg Mausam Khatri won Bronze medal beating South Korean Jaegang Kim 3-1 ... This was India's 3rd bronze medal in wrestling.

In Kabaddi Indian men scored convicing victory over Japanese side 52-17 to moved in the final, they will face Iran in the final who defeated Pakistan in close match ... On women side Indian women managed to avoid defeat and won in very close match against Iranian women, 23-22 ... In the final they r playing against Thai women.

In chess Men's Team event India lost against lower rated Philippines team 1.5-2.5 in semis ... Harikrishna scored win against higher rated Wesley So but Sasikiran anf Gopal lost their matches ... In Women's Team India also lost against lower rated Uzbekistan team in semis ... Harika scored win in her match but Eesha Karavade and Nisha Mohota disappointed in their losses.

In women's volleyball Indian team finished on 9th position beating Maldives comfortably 3-0, 25-4 25-5 25-7.

Athletics - Women's 400m Hurdles Final
Gold - Ashwini Chidananda Akkunji (IND) 56.15 PB
Silver - Xing Wang (CHN) 56.76
Bronze - Satomi Kubokura (JPN) 56.83

Athletics - Men's 400m Hurdles Final
Gold - Joseph Abraham (IND) 49.96 SB
Silver - Bandar Yahya Sharahili (KSA) 50.29
Bronze - Naohiro Kawakita (JPN) 50.37

Boxing - Men's 60kg
Gold - Vikas Krishan (IND)
Silver - Qing Hu (CHN)
Bronze - Soonchul Han (KOR) and Hurshid Tojibaev (UZB)

Boxing - Men's 81kg
Gold - Elshod Rasulov (UZB)
Silver - Dinesh Kumar (IND)
Bronze - Deepak Maharjan (NEP) and Fanlong Meng (CHN)

Hockey - Men
Gold - Pakistan
Silver - Malaysia
Bronze - India

Athletics - Women's 800m Final
Gold - Margarita Matsko (KAZ) 2:00.29
Silver - Thanh Hang Truong (VIE) 2:00.91
Bronze - Tintu Lukka (IND) 2:01.36

Wrestling - Men's Freestyle 96 kg
Gold - Reza Yazdani (IRI)
Silver - Kurban Kurbanov (UZE)
Bronze - Mausam Khatri (IND) and Takao Isokawa (JPN)

Boxing - Women's 48-51kg
Gold - Cancan Ren (CHN)
Silver - Annie Albania (PHI)
Bronze - Mary Kom (IND) and Aya Shinmoto (JPN)

Boxing - Men's 52kg
Gold - Rey Saludar (PHI)
Silver - Yong Chang (CHN)
Bronze - Suranjoy Singh (IND) and Katsuki Susa (JPN)

Boxing - Men's +91kg
Gold - Zhilei Zhang (CHN)
Silver - Ivan Dychko (KAZ)
Bronze - Paramjeet Samota (IND) and Roohollah Hosseini (IRI)

Squash - Men's Team
Gold - Pakistan
Silver - Malaysia
Bronze - India and Hong Kong

Squash - Women's Team
Gold - Malaysia
Silver - Hong Kong
Bronze - India and South Korea

Tennis News
At ATP World Tour Doubles Final 2010, London, Great Britain

Group A
Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) l Bob Bryan (USA)/ Mike Bryan (USA) 36 46

Group B
Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Max Mirnyi (BLR) l Daniel Nestor (CAN)/ Nenad Zimonjic (SRB) 67(5) 67(1)

Mahesh and Max lost in close tie-breaks against Nestor and Zimo ... Now they need to win match against Wesley Moodie and Dick Norman to qualify for semis.

Other hand Lee and Lukas challenge got over with their 3rd loss in group A ... This was their last match as regular partners.
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At $35K+H Toyota Challenger, Japan

[R1] Vishnu Vardhan (IND,382) l Daniel Yoo (KOR,395) 67(4) 64 36

Doubles
[R1] (1) Treat Conrad Huey (PHI)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt Divij Sharan (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) 63 64
[QF] (1) Treat Conrad Huey (PHI)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt Yuki Matsuo (JPN)/ Arata Onozawa (JPN) 62 63

[SF] (1) Treat Conrad Huey (PHI)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Yuichi Ito (JPN)/ Daniel Yoo (KOR)

Vishnu couldn't won his singles match against similar ranked Korean Yoo ... In doubles also he lost with Divij against top-seed pair of Purav and Treat ... Purav and Treat also won quarter final easily and in semis they r facing unseeded pair.
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At $10K Dominican Republic F1, Santo Domingo

[R2] Rupesh Roy (IND,563) l (1) Victor Estrella (DOM,218) 26 06
[R2] (7) Yuki Bhambri (IND,515) bt (LL) Martin Prikryl (CZE,893) 61 76(4)

[QF] (7) Yuki Bhambri (IND,515) vs (1) Victor Estrella (DOM,218)

Yuki moved to quarters but there he is facing top-seed top-200 type local player Estrella, who defeated Rupesh in second round losing only 2 games.

Asian Games News
At 2010 Asian Games, Guangzhou, China

Tarundeep Rai created history as he become the first Indian archer to win silver medal in the singles event at the Asian Games ... He lost final against WR #1 Korean archer Woojin Kim 3-7 ... Before that in semis he upset Chinese Taipei archer Chia Chun Sung 7-3 ... In quarter final he scored big upset win over WR #2 Korean archer Jinhyek Oh 6-4 ... In R16 he defeated Malaysian archer Chu Sian Cheng 6-2, in same round Rahul Banerjee lost his match against Chinese Taipei archer Chia Chun Sung 0-6 ... In first round he defeated Vietnamese archer Trong Kien Dao 5-1.

In boxing in Men's 75kg semi-final Vijener Singh defeated Iranian boxer Mohammad Sattarpour in closely fought bout 10-7 ... After first round Vijener was down 1-2 but he started taking control from second round when he was leading 5-4 and then increased lead in the final round to complete victory ... In the final Vijener will face Uzbek boxer Abbos Atoev ... In Super Heavyweight Men's 91kg Manpreet Singh scored dominating victory 10-2 over Tajikistan Jakhon Qurbonov ... He was too strong for Tajikistan boxer ... In the final he will face Syrian boxer Mohammad Ghossoun ... In Men's 60kg young 19yrs old Vikas Krishan continued with his good run scoring another dominating win over Uzbek's Hurshid Tojibaev 7-0 to moved into the final ... In the final Vikas is facing Chinese Qing Hu ... In Men's 81kg category Dinesh Kumar scored comfortable win over Nepalese boxer Deepak Maharjan 7-1 to moved into the final ... He will face Uzbek boxer Elshod Rasulov in the final ... Our another young boxer Santosh Kumar in 64kg category showed good skill and technique to upset Thai boxer Wuttichai Masuk 5-1 to reached in the final ... In the final he is facing Kazakhstan boxer Daniyar Yeleussinov ... In Men's 52kg category Suranjoy Singh Mayengbam lost close bout against Chinese boxer Yong Change 5-6 ... This was shocking result as Suranjoy Singh was consider as Gold medal hope ... In the men's +91 kg category Paramjeet Samota lost one-sided match against Chinese Zhilei Zhang, he was 3-15 down when referee stopped bout and declared Chinese boxer winner through technical knock-out ... In men's boxing categories our 5 boxers r in the final and we won 2 Bronze medals.

In boxing in Women's 69-75kg Kavita Goyat lost to China's Jinzi Li 1-5 ... In Women's 48-51kg category Mary Kom lost against Chinese opponent Cancan Ren 7-11 ... Mery Kom need to do lot of adjustment before Olympics to participate in this higher weight category ... So our both woman boxers won Bronze.

In squash Indian men lost to Pakistan 0-2 and Indian women lost to Malaysian side 0-2 in semis, so both teams won Bronze medals.

In athletics in women's 400 hurdles Ashwini clocked 56.43 with her PB to win heat 1 and then Jauna Murmu clocked 57.17 her PB to win heat 2, so good chance of Gold medal in this event after 24 yrs when PT Usha won Gold medal at Seoul ... In men's 400m hurdles Abraham Joseph with 50.93 having second best qualifying time for the final ... In 800m heat Tintu (2:04.84) and Sinimol (2:03.83) qualified to the final ... They are 3rd and 4th in the heats timings behind Matsko (2:03.23) and Truong (2:04.24) ... In 200m men Suresh Sathya won his heat with 21.02 and made it to the final ... His timing was 3rd best timing in the heats ... In 200m women Geeta Satti qualified for the final 24.08, but had only a 7th best timing ... In Men's Discus Final Vikas Gowda finished on fourth with a 63.13.

In womens hockey Indian women lost against Japanese women 1-0 in Bronze medal match when Japan scored goal in extra-time on penalty corner.

In chess 7th round Indian men hold 2-all by lowly ranked Iranian team ... Sasikiran Krishnan scored victory but Gopal's loss cost us victory ... Our women scored dominating 4-0 win over Syrian girls as our all players won their matches.

In Kabbadi our women team qualified for semi-final winning their all matches in the group, in last match they defeated South Korean team 47-21 .. And our men also scored victory over South Koreans in close match then expected 37-19.

In Karate in Women's -50 kg Valena Valentina didn't play her Bronze medal match after getting injured in semi-final loss against Chinese opponent.

In volleyball for Men's Placement 5-8 match Indian side scored thumping win over Qatar 3-0, 25-23 25-16 25-17, so now for 5th place match they will play against Chinese team.

In wrestling Men's freestyle our all 3 wrestlers failed to win medal ... Pradeep Kumar and Ram Vir lost their bronze medal matches and Narsingh Yadav lost in quarter-final.

Archery - Men's Individual
Gold - Woojin Kim (KOR)
Silver - Tarundeep Rai (IND)
Bronze - Chia Chun Sung (TPE)

Tennis News
At ATP World TOur Doubles Final 2010, London, Great Britain

Group A
Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) l Jurgen Melzer (AUT)/ Philipp Petzschner (GER) 67(9) 64 8-10

Another disappointing loss for Lee and Lukas ... This was their 5th loss in the row in ATP Doubles Final, last year also they lost all 3 matches.


After losing first set in close tie-break Lee and Lukas won second set ... In super tie-break Lee and Lukas were up 8-4 before Lukas started to make errors and that cost them match ... So with this Lee and Lukas challenge is over in Doubles Final.
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At $10K Dominican Republic F1, Santo Domingo

[R1] Rupesh Roy (IND,563) bt (LL) Gaetan De DeLovinfosse (BEL,1077) 63 62
[R1] (7) Yuki Bhambri (IND,515) bt (Q) Dmitri Sitak (RUS,907) 36 62 64

[R2] Rupesh Roy (IND,563) vs (1) Victor Estrella (DOM,218)
[R2] (7) Yuki Bhambri (IND,515) vs (LL) Martin Prikryl (CZE,893)

Doubles
[R1] Takanyi GARANGANGA (ZIM)/ Rupesh ROY (IND) l (4) Mikelis LIBIETIS (LAT)/ Deniss PAVLOVS (LAT) 67(2) 26

Good recovery by Yuki but overall good to see winning start for our players in singles.

Asian Games News
At 2010 Asian Games, Guangzhou, China

Today India won 1 Gold and 2 Bronze medals ... HIGH of the day was Somdev winning India's first-ever tennis singles Gold medal and LOW of the day Indian hockey side losing to Malaysia in semi-final.

What a player is Somdev Kishore Devvarman ... He again showed whenever he play for the country he is giving more than 100% ... In the final he demolished WR #40 Uzbek Denis Istomin 61 62 ... In both sets Somi lost his serve once but he broke Istomi's serve 7 times in the match, 4 times in first set and 3 times in second ... Only once Istomin managed to hold his serve and that was in second set ... With this win Somdev became first Indian player to won Gold in tennis singles and he also became double gold medalists as yesterday he won doubles Gold with Sanam Singh ... So now Somdev is Asian Games and Commonweath Games tennis singles Gold medalist.

But then we had horrible result in hockey ... After Pakistan defeated South Koreans in tie-break India had good chance to make Indo_pak gold medal match in hockey but that didn't happen ... Indians started slowly against Malaysians ... Malaysia scored first goal but we equalized on hooter through PC conversion from Sandeep Singh ... In second half we were up immediately when Tushar Khandekar scored but Malaysian made it 2-all ... Then Rajpal Singh scored goal to gave Indian side 3-2 lead but again we take goal in dying moment of 70 mins to make it 3-all ... In extra-time Malaysia's Rahim Mohammad Amin scored golden goal in end of extra-time to gave memorable win and now Indian side will play against South Koreans for Bronze medal match.

In archery Women's Individual Deepika Kumari failed to won medal ... In first round she and Rimil Buriuly won their first round matches comfortably ... In R16 Deepika Kumari scored victory over Indonesian Erwina Safitri 7-3 but Rimil Buriuly lost her match against Chinese Taipei archer Ya Ting Tan 2-6 ... In quarter final Deepika Kumari defeated Chinese Taipei archer Ya Ting Tan 6-4 ... But in the semi final she lost against Korean WR #1 Okhee Yun 6-2 but surprisingly Deepika Kumari her Bronze medal match against North Korean archer Un Sil Kwon 2-6.

In Athletics in Women's Discus Throw Final CWG Gold medalist Krishna Poonia won Bronze medal with throw of 61.94m which she throw on first attempt ... Harwant Kaur finished on fourth with throw of 57.55m ... In Women's Heptathlon India's Pramila Ganapathy Gudandda won Bronze medal with 5415 pts ... Our Susmita Singha Roy finished on fourth position with 5051 pts ... In Men's 4 x 400m Relay India qualified for final with 4th best qualifying time, 3:07.00 ... In Men's 4 x 100m Relay also India qualified for the final with 4th best qualifying time, 39.62s ... In Women's 4 x 100m Relay India qualified for the final with 5th best qualifying time, 45.44s.

In Canoe/Kayak Sprint in Men's Kayak Single 1000m Semifinal India's Bhupender Singh Pundir and Jamesboy Singh Oinam qualified for the final ... Jamesboy also qualified for Men's Canoe Single 200m Final.

In chess Men's Team Round 6 Indian side defeated Qatar 3.5-0.5 ... Harikrishna, Sasikiran Krishnan and Surya Shekhar Ganguly won their match ... This win moved Indian team to 3rd position ... In women's section Indian side defeated Bangladesh 3.5-0.5 ... Esha Karavade, S. Meenakshi and Nisha Mohota won their matches ... India is still on 2nd position behind China.

In Kabaddi in Men's Group A match Indian side scored good win against strong team of Iran 40-24.

In squash in Men's Team Pool B match Indian side defeated South Korea 3-0 to moved into semis but lost against Malaysian side 1-2 to finished on second position ... In semifinal we r facing Pakistan ... In Women's Team Pool B match we lost against Hong Kong side 0-3 so we r playing top-seed Malaysia into semis.

In Men's Greco-Roman our bad performance continued ... Dharmender Dalal lost Bronze medal match against Iraqi wrestler in 120 kg category.

Tennis - Men's Singles
Gold - Somdev Devvarman (IND)
Silver - Denis Istomin (UZB)
Bronze - Go Soeda (JPN) and Tatsuma Ito (JPN)

Athletics - Women's Discus Throw Final
Gold - Yanfeng Li (CHN) 66.18m
Silver - Aimin Song (CHN) 64.04m
Bronze - Krishna Poonia (IND) 61.94m

Athletics - Women's Heptathlon
Gold - Yuliya Tarasova (UZB) 5783 pts
Silver - Yuki Nakata (JPN) 5606 pts
Bronze - Pramila Ganapathy Gudandda (IND) 5415 pts

Tennis - Women's Singles
Gold - Shuai Peng (CHN)
Silver - Akgul Amanmuradova (UZB)
Bronze - Sania Mirza (IND) and Kimiko Date-Krumm (JPN)

Tennis News
At ATP World Tour Doubles Final 2010, London, Great Britain

Group B
Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Max Mirnyi (BLR) bt Lukasz Kubot (POL)/ Oliver Marach (AUT) 76(2) 64

Mahesh and Max started with straight sets victory over tricky pair of Kubot and Marach ... Good start for qualifying for semis.
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At $35K+H Toyota Challenger, Japan

[R1] Vishnu Vardhan (IND,382) vs Daniel Yoo (KOR,395)

Doubles
[R1] (1) Treat Conrad Huey (PHI)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Divij Sharan (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND)

Hope Vishnu reaches early in Japan after today's Silver medal at Asiad in MXD ... Facing similar ranked player in singles.
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At $10K Dominican Republic F1, Santo Domingo

[R1] Rupesh ROY (IND,563) vs Qualifier
[R1] (7) Yuki BHAMBRI (IND,515) vs Qualifier

Doubles
[R1] Takanyi GARANGANGA (ZIM)/ Rupesh ROY (IND) vs (4) Mikelis LIBIETIS (LAT)/ Deniss PAVLOVS (LAT)

Yuki and Rupesh is playing at Dominican Republic futures.

Asian Games News
At 2010 Asian Games, Guangzhou, China

Now India having 36 medals ... 6 Gold, 12 Silver and 18 Bronze medals.

Today in tennis India won a Gold and a Silver ... Somdev and Sanam won against local pair of 2nd seed Zhe Li and Maoxin Gong in STB, 63 67(4) 10-8 ... After winning first set easily in second set both pairs traded multiple breaks ... In tie-break Chinese pair was strong for our pair ... In super tie-break our pair take lead wit mini-breaks ... They had 4 match points at 9-5 but Chinese pair managed to save 3 before our pair converted 4th to won this match ... In this match Somdev was erratic but Sanam played exceptional tennis to helped India to won their 5th men's doubles Gold in a row ... In mixed doubles final Sania and Vishnu started well winning first set but from second set their game totally dropped down as Sania was committing too many unforced errors and second seed Chinese Taipei pair of Yung Jan Chan and Tsung Hua Yang take full advantage of it winning next set and STB easily, 64 16 2-10 ... In mens singles semi-final Somdev won first set easily against Tatsuma Ito breaking his serve twice ... But then Somdev lost 7 games in a row and in that his serve got broken 4 times to lose second set 0-6 ... At that time Tatsuma was controlling match and points ... In third set Somdev digged deep to come out of slump to finished match 6-3 ... In the final Somdev is facing top-seed and WR #40 Uzbek Denis Istomin.

In archery men's recurve team won Bronze medal like their women counterparts ... They won Bronze medal match against Chinese Taipei 220-216 ... Before that they lost against WR #1 Korean team in semis 216-222 ... In quarter final Indian team defeated Nepal 221-194 ... And in first round we defeated Bangladeshi team 221-186.

In boxing in Women's 48-51kg category Mary Kom scored dominating victory over Chinese Taipei boxer Meng Chieh Ping 16-2 to moved into semi-final ... In semis she is having tough challenge of local player Cancan Ren ... In Women's 69-75kg category Kavita Goyat won close bout against Kazakhstan Marina Volnova 8-7 to moved into semis ... She is also facing another local player Jinzi Li ... But in Women's 57-60kg category Preeti Beniwal lost her quarter-final against Thai Tassamalee Thongjan, referee stopped bout when Preeti got injured and she was 0-3 down when only 53 secs were remaining in the final round.

In boxing Men's 64kg category young 19 yrs old Santhosh Kumar Virothu scored victory in quarter final on more body punch counts after his match ended in 3-all against Mongolian Tuvshinbat Byamba ... After first round Santosh Kumar was leading 1-0 but Mongolian boxer made it equal after second round 1-all ... In final round both boxers earned 2 pts each but Santosh Kumar was ahead in body punches count to win bout and moved into semis ... Insemis he is facing Thai boxer Wuttichai Masuk ... But in Men's 46-49kg category Amandeep Singh lost his quarter final bout against Philippines boxer Victorio Iii Saludar 1-6.

In Kabaddi Women's Group B match India defeated Bangladesh 34-20 ... In this match Indian coach tried his bench stength in later stage of match.

In squash Men's Team Pool B match India registered their second win a row beating Japan 3-0 and in afternoon session they defeated Saudi Arabia with identical score 3-0 ... In Women's Team Pool B match India scored 3-0 win over China ... Women also scored 3-0 win over Pakistan in afternoon session match.

In chess our men team lost against Philippines team 2.5-1.5 ... Surya Shekhar Ganguly won his match but Harikrishna and Adhiban lost their respective matches ... Our women team scored crushing victory over Mongolia 3.5 ... They r tied for top spot with Chinese team ... Harika Dronavalli, S. Meenakshi and Nisha Mohota won their matches.

In athletics Hardeep Kaur finished on 4th in Women's Hammer Throw Final with 60.54 mtrs throw ... In Women's 400m Final Mandeep Kaur clocked 52.99 to finished on 4th and Manjeet Kaur clocked 53.27 to finished on 5th.

In Women's hockey India lost 1-2 against Chinese team ... So now they will face Japan in Bronze medal match.

Disappointing day in wrestling as in Men's Greco-Roman 84 kg category Manoj Kumar lost bronze medal match against Kyrgyzstan wrestler Janarbekand Kenjeev and Sanjay lost in first round of Men's Greco-Roman 74 kg.

In women volleyball Indian side take another one-sided defeat in hands of Chinese Taipei, 12-25 12-25 12-25.

Tennis - Men's Doubles
Gold - Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND)
Silver - Zhe Li (CHN)/ Maoxin Gong (CHN)
Bronze - Jae Cho-Soong (KOR)/ Hyun Joon Kim (KOR) and Hsin-Han Lee ()TPE)/ Chu-Huan Yi (TPE)

Tennis - Mixed Doubles
Gold - Yung Jan Chan (TPE)/ Tsung Hua Yang (TPE)
Silver - Sania Mirza (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND)
Bronze - Hiroki Kondo (JPN)/ Yurika Sema (JPN) and Tamarine Tanasugarn (THA)/ Sanchai Ratiwatana (THA)

Archery - Men's Team
Gold - South Korea
Silver - China
Bronze - India

Tennis News
At ATP World TOur Doubles Final 2010, London, Great Britain

Group A
Bob Bryan (USA)/ Mike Bryan (USA) bt Jurgen Melzer (AUT)/ Philipp Petzschner (GER) 63 75
Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) l Mariusz Fyrstenberg (POL)/ Marcin Matkowski (POL) 36 67(3)

Disappointing start for Lee and Lukas, who lost in straight sets against lower ranked Polish team ... With this loss their chances of entering semis from Group A r reduced.

Asian Games News
At 2010 Asian Games, Guangzhou, China

What a day for India ... We won 3 Gold, a Silver and 5 Bronze medals ... India moved to 8th position with 5 Gold, 11 Silver and 17 Bronze medals.

On first day of track and field India got a flying start wining 2 Golds and 1 Silver in long distance ... In Women's 3000m Steeplechase Sudha Singh gave unexpected result to won Gold medal ... She managed to hold Chinese challenge in the end to won it ... Before that Preeja Sreedharan showed her dominance in 10,000 mtrs ... She became first Indian athelete run below 32 mins ... Kavita Raut also run amazingly to came a second behind one second ... So Gold and Silver for Indians in Womens's 10,000M.

So at last our shooters managed to win Gold medal ... In Men's Double Trap Ronjan Sodhi won Gold and Indian team managed to win Bronze.

In Archery recurve women team event in dramatic event Indian women declared winner against Chinese Taipei team in Bronze medal match, 218-217 ... This is our first women archery medal in Asian games ... In semis India played very close match against WR #1 South Korean team ... After completion of 24 shots both teams were locked at 221-all ... But in 3 extra shots Korean women scored 28 pts and Indians managed only 26 ... Before this Indian women defeated North Korean 214-202 in quarters and defeated Vietnam team 225-152.

In tennis womens singles semis Sania lost in 3sets against 3rd seed Uzbek Akgul Amanmuradova, 76(7) 36 46 ... So with that Sania guarnteed with Bronze medal ... Somdev moved in to mens singles semis with comfortable win over Chinese player Ze Zhang 64 64 ... Karan gave tough fight to top-seed Denis Istomin before losing 26 64 57 ... In semis Somdev is facing Japanese 4th seed Tatsuma Ito ... In mixed doubles Sania Mirza and Vishnu Vardhan scored another hard fought victory over top seed Thai pair Tamarine Tanasugarn and Sanchai Ratiwatana in STB to moved into the fnal, 63 67(3) 10-5 ... In the final they r facing second seed Chinese Taipei pair of Yung Jan Chan and Tsung Hua Yng ... In mens doubles Sanam and Somdev scored straight sets vitory over Korean pair Cho-Soong and H-Kim 63 75 to moved into the final ... In final they r having tough challenge of local pair of 2nd seed Zhe Li and Maoxin Gong.

In boxing Preeti Beniwal became first Indian woman to won bout in women boxing ... She defeated Mongolian Suvd Erdene Oyungerel 8-2 in Women's 57-60kg ... In Men's 60kg young Vikas Krishan scored another impressive win over experienced Korean Chol Song Kim 4-2 to moved into semis ... In semis he is facing another young boxer from Uzbek's Hurshid Tojibaev ... In Super Heavyweight Men's 91kg Manpreet Singh had tough match against local Chinese boxer Maimaiti Zaifula ... He won this close quarter final 6-4 and in semis he will face Tajikistan Jakhon Qurbonov, who won his one sideded quarter-final against Turkmenistan boxer (referee stopped bout when he was 24-2 leading in first round).

Indian men's hockey team defeated Japan in close match, 3-2, with help from 2 goals from Sandeep Singh ... This win helped them to qualify for semi-final with topping the group B ... India will face Malaysia in first semi-final and Pakistan will face South Korea in other semi-final.

Indian men chess tem lost their fourth round match against Chinese team 1.5-2.5 ... GM Gopal G N lost against GM Ni Hua ... Indian women team won their fourth round match against Vietnamese team 1.5-2.5 ... Tania Sachdev scored important win against Pham Le Thao Nguyen.

In squash team event in pool stage India started with comfortable win over Qatar 3-0.

In disappointing result Indian volleyball men team lost easily against Thailand 0-3, 20-25 23-25 22-25, in quarter-final ... Indian women team again easily lost in group stage aginst Kazakhstan 0-3, 18-25 9-25 10-25.

Athletics - Women's 3000m Steeplechase
Gold - Sudha Singh (IND) 9:55.67s PB
Silver - Yuan Jin (CHN) 9:55.71s
Bronze - Minori Hayakari (JPN) 10:01.25s

Athletics - Women's 10,000m final
Gold - Preeja Sreedharan (IND) 31:50:47 PB (NR)
Silver - Kavita Raut (IND) 31:51.44 PB
Bronze - Shitaya Eshete Habtegebrel (BAH) 31:53:27 PB

Shooting - Men's Double Trap Final
Gold - Ronjan Sodhi (IND) 186
Silver - Shaikh Juma Dalmook Al Maktoum (UAE)
Bronze - Hamad Ali Al Marri (QAT) 182

Shooting - Men's Double Trap Team
Gold - China 414
Silver - Kuwait 407
Bronze - India 403

Wrestling - Men's Greco-Roman 60 kg
Gold - Omid Noroozi (IRI)
Silver - Jihyun Jung (KOR)
Bronze - Ravinder Singh (IND) and Ryutaro Matsumoto (JPN)

Wrestling - Men's Greco-Roman 66 kg
Gold - Saeid Abdvali (IRI)
Silver - Darkhan Bayakhmetov (KAZ)
Bronze - Sunilkumar Rana (IND) and Tsutomu Fujimura (JPN)

Squash - Men's Individual
Gold - Mohamad Azlan Iskandar (MAS)
Silver - Aamir Atlas Khan (PAK)
Bronze - Saurav Ghosal (IND) and Beng Hee Ong (MAS)

Asian Games News
At 2010 Asian Games, Guangzhou, China

In golf on final day our golfers - Rashid Khan, Rahul Bajaj, Abhinav Lohan, Abhijit Singh Chadha - managed PAR score for Team India and that was enough to earned them Silver with 1 stoke ahead of Chinese Taipei ... In individual event Rashid Khan scored final PAR round and remained on -3 ... He remained tied for 4th position and 2 stokes behind Chinese Taipei player Chien Yao Hung.

In sailing Open Match Racing event Indian sailors - Balraj, Trunal Balkrishna Helegaonkar, Atool Sinha, Farokh Tarapore and Shekhar Singh Yadav - won Silver ... They lost final to Japan ... But hats off to Farokh Tarapore for Silver at age of 50 yrs and participating in his 8th Asian games in a row.

In snooker singles Aditya Mehta lost 1-4 against Hong Kong player Ka Chun Marco Fu in semis, 20-62 7-60 68-55 15-59 21-71 ... So another Bronze medal for India in snooker.

In squash Saurav Ghosal lost in semis against top-seed Malaysian Mohamad Azlan Iskandar 1-3, 5-11 11-6 5-11 10-12 ... So another Bronze for us and this time from Squash.

In tennis Sania scored another upset win this time over WR #58 and 2nd seed Thai Tamarine Tanasugarn 62 63 ... Very dominating win to moved into semis ... In semis Sania is facing 3rd seed Uzbek Akgul Amanmuradova ... Somdev scored comfortble win over Uzbek Vaja Uzakov, 61 61, to moved into quarte final ... He will face local 6th seed Ze Zhang ... Karan also moved into semis scoring dominating win over Chinese Taipei's Ti Chen, 60 64 ... In quarter final he is having tough match against top-seed Uzbek Denis Istomin ... In doubles 6th seed Somi and Sanam scored comfortable win over local pair Zhang and Bai 62 64 to moved into semis ... In mixed doubles 6th seed pair of Sania Mirza and Vishnu Vardhan defeated 4th seed Chinese Taipei pair Chia Jung Chuang and Chu-Huan Yi in comeback victory ... They scored 26 64 10-4 win to moved into semis ... In semis they r facing top-seed Thai pair Tamarine Tanasugarn and Sanchai Ratiwatana

In mens volleyball quarter finl group stage India scored very dominting win ove Qatar and almost sure of finished on 2nd position in Group F ... India scored comfortble 3-0 win, 25-15 25-13 25-20.

In hockey group match India scored important win over Pakistan 3-2 ... Match was very fast paced ... Both teams were attacking from the start ... We scored first goal on PC through Sandeep Singh but Pakistan scored immediately in 4th minute through field goal from Rehan Butt ... Then Dharamvir Singh scored good field goal to gave us lead 2-1 at half-time ... In second half Pakistan take advantage of poor defending when they scored goal through Shakeel Abbasi ... But our forwards earned another penalty corner which Sandeep Singh scored ... In end our team well defended to keep advantage.

In boxing Men's 75kg Vijender Singh scored very good win over South Korean boxer Deokjin Cho 13-2 ... Vijender need to learn avoid penalty, in this match also he gave his opponent 2 points after 3 warnings of holding ... In semis Vijener is playing against Iranian boxer Mohammad Sattarpour ... In Men's 52kg category Suranjoy Singh Mayengbam defeated Uzbek Shahriyor Isakov in closely fought bout, 4-2, to moved into semis ... There he will face big challenge from local player Yong Change ... In Mens 46-49kg category Amandeep Singh scored thumping win over Pakistani 11-0 to moved in to quarters ... In quarter final he will face Philipino boxer Victorio Iii Saludar ... But in Men's 69kg Dilbag Singh lost one-sidedly against Turkmenistan boxer Omar Mamedshayev 8-0 in round 16.

In Mens chess team event India defeated Kazakhstan 2.5-1.5 with win from GM Gopal G N against higher ranked GM Vladimirov Yevgeniy ... With this win Indian team remained on top place with 10 pts, now 1.5 pts ahead of Chinese and Iranian teams.

In Womens chess team event India hold China to 2.0-2.0 draw ... They slipped to 4th position with 8 pts, 1.5 pts behind leader Vietnam team.

In womens hockey Indian team defeated Kazakhstan 6-0 with hattrick from Rani.

Indian women volleyball team lost easily against Japanese tem 25-23 25-16 25-17.

Golf - Men's Team
Gold - South Korea -22
Silver - India +10
Bronze - Chinese Taipei +11

Sailing - Open Match Racing
Gold - Japan
Silver - India
Bronze - Korea

Billiards - Men's Snooker Singles
Gold - Ka Chun Marco Fu (HKG)
Silver - Junhui Ding (CHN)
Bronze - Aditya Mehta (IND) and Dechawat Poomjaeng (THA)

Asian Games News
At 2010 Asian Games, Guangzhou, China

Now India having 2 Gold, 8 Silver and 10 Bronze medals ... 20 medals in total and currently we r on 11th position.

Indians rowers gave roaring start for India on 7th day ... Indian rowers won 3 medals ... As expected before Asian games bigins, Bajrang Lal Takhar won Gold medal in Men's Single Sculls ... In Men's eight final our team of Anil Kumar, Girraj Singh, Saji Thomas, Lokesh Kumar, Manjeet Singh, Rajesh Kumar Yadav, Ranjit Singh, Satish Joshi and Jenil Krishnan won Silver behind Chinese team ... Indian women also won Bronze medal in Women's Pair Final in close fight with Indonasian pair.

In shooting Mens Trap team event Manavjit Singh Sandhu scored perfect 25 on last round that helped us to win Bronze beating host China by a point ... But in individual final Manavjit couldn't repeat same performance and managed only 17 hits from 25 ... That put him tied for 3rd place but he missed shot on shoot-off to ended on 5th position.

In boxing Men's 60kg category young Viskas Krishan scored another convincing win over Turkmenistan boxer Amangeldi 8-1 to moved into quarter-final ... In Men's 81kg category Dinesh Kumar scored comfortable win over Korean Jinho Heo to moved into semi-final ... So another medal is assured in boxing ... Dinesh Kumar controlled this match from the start, he was leading 8-4 after second round ... In boxing 64kg category another young boxer 19 yrs old Santosh Kumar showed good technique against Malaysian Azmi Akyazlan to moved into quarter final, he won bout 6-1.

In tennis 2nd seed Somdev and 7th seed Karan scored thumping victories ... Both gave double bagel to their respective opponents ... And Sania produced upset win over local 6th seed Shuai Zhang in one-sided match, 62 62 ... So with this win over #91 player Sania is in quarter-final where she meet 2nd seed and #58 experienced Thai player Tamarine Tanasugarn ... In mens doubles 6th seed pair of Sanam and Somi moved into R16 with 64 62 victory ... But Karan and Vishnu lost in STB against Korean pair 61 36 2-10 ... Nirupama and Tara Iyer lost against seeded Chinese pair 46 57 in womens doubles ... In mixed doubles 6th seed pair of Sania and Vishnu turned around defeat into win in tight STB against local Chinese pair of Yan Bai and Shengnan Sun 63 46 12-10 ... In quarter final they r facing 4th seed Chinese Taipei pair of Chia Jung Chuang and Chu-Huan Yi ... Other hand Sanam and Rushmi lost to 7th seed Japanese pair 46 63 3-10.

Our mens volleyball scored very important win over 7 times Asian champion Japan in quarter-final group stage ... Indians started well and won first 2 sets convincingly ... After losing 3rd set they choked up in 4th set to waste 3 match points before losing 4th set ... In decider Indians kept their nerve at important points and made comeback from 4-8 down to complete important victory which will help them to get higher seedings in quarter-final knockout stage ... We defeated Japan 3-2, 25-20 25-19 21-25 26-28 15-13.

In women archery top 3 archers broke previous Asian games record in qualifying and team event Korea bettered their own game record ... In individual standing in top 5 r Korean archers but on 3rd position is North Korean archer ... Deepika Kumari qualified for 7th position, otherwise disappointing standing for our other archers ... Rimil Buriuly on 18th position ... Bombayla Devi Laishram and Dola Banerjee qualified on 28th and 29th position respectively.

In Golf we had poor outing ... Our all 3 golfers scored +2 score ... So currently India is on 4th position with +10 but 5 strokes behind 3rd place Thailand ... In individual round Rashid Khan is also slipped to 4th position ... He is 3 under and 2 stroke behind Thai player.

In womens hockey we thrashed Thailand team 13-0 to scored one of our biggest victory.

In squash higher ranked Saurav Ghosal defeated Siddharth Suchde in straight sets 11-6 11-6 11-7 to moved into semis ... In the semis he is facing top-seed Malaysian Mohamad Azlan Iskandar ... Dipika lost to Malaysian WR # 1 Nicole David, 8-11 11-7 6-11 4-11 and Joshana lost after winning first 2 sets against Malaysian Wee Wern Low, 11-7 11-9 8-11 9-11 3-11.

In chess team events our men team is on top spot after 2 rounds with 7.5 pts and women team event we r on 3rd place with 6 pts ... Too early to say anything about the medals.

In womens volleyball we comfortably defeated Maldives 3-0, 25-6 25-7 25-6.

In snooker singles Aditya Mehta reached into semis scoring hard fought win over Singapore's Boon Chin Ang 4-3, 70-13 0-79 74-8 58-71 54-77 72-8 85-39 ... In semis he is facing Hong Kong player Ka Chun Marco Fu ... Before this Aditya scored victory over Chinese Taipei's player Yu-Lun Wu 4-2 to moved into quarter-final, 67-39 49-69 74-42 16-69 72-0 69-37 ... But Pankaj Advani lost against top Chinese player Junhui Ding 1-4, 100-11 0-86 84-1 88-0 105-7.

Rowing - Men's Single Sculls Final
Gold - Bajrang Lal Takhar (IND) 7:04.78
Silver - Ming Hui Wang (TPE) 7:07.33
Bronze - Haeider Hamarasheid (IRQ) 7:10.10

Rowing - Men's Eight Final
Gold - China 5:37.44
Silver - India 5:49.50
Bronze - Uzbekistan 5:55.96

Rowing - Women's Pair Final
Gold - China (Zhengping Sun & Hong Lin) 7:22.06
Silver - Kazakhstan (Oxana Nazarova & Svetlana Germanovich) 7:35.13
Bronze - India (Pratima Puhana & Pramila Prava Minz) 7:47.50

Shooting - Men's Trap Team
Gold - Kuwait 352
Silver - Lebanon 351
Bronze - India 341

Asian Games News
At 2010 Asian Games, Guangzhou, China

Now we r having 16 medals; 1 Gold, 7 Silver and 8 Bronze ... We r still outside of top-10 medals winning nations.

Today in the morning we won 2 Silvers in the rowing ... Our Men's Four team - Anil Kumar, Saji Thomas, Ranjit Singh and Jenil Krishnan - finished second behind Chinese rowers ... In Lightweight Men's Four event our team - Lokesh Kumar, Manjeet Singh, Rajesh Kumar and Satish Joshi - finished second behind Japanese team .. They hold big challenge from Hong Kong team to won Silver.

In shooting Vijay Kumar won a Bronze medal in the men's 25 metre Center Fire Pistol final with with 583 and Omkar Singh finished on 8th with 580... Gagan finished 4th in the final of the men's 50 metre Rifles 3-Position final, his 8th shot of 8.3 pts cost him Bronze medal by 0.5 pts ... Men's trap team finished on 5th position with a total of 201 after the end of day one and in that Manavjit Singh Sandhu finished 5th with a score of 70.

In boxing in the men's +91 kg category Paramjeet Samota scored victory over experienced South Korean Park Sung ... Park Sung got disqualified after recieving 3 penalties when Samota was leading 9-4 in second round ... So with that Samota assured our first medal of boxing ... Suranjoy Singh moved to quarter final beating former junior world champion Korean Juseong 8-6 ... After 2 rounds Suranjoy was up 4-1 but in last round Korean made excellent comeback to win round 4-5 but Suranjoy managed to hold his attack to won this bout ... In mens 46-49kg category Amandeep Singh won his bout to moved into R16 when referee stopped bout after third countdown when he was leading 9-0 against Saudi Arabian boxer Fahad ... Next Amandeep is facing Pakistani boxer Mohammad Waseem ... In 56 kg category Chottelal Yadav lost against Japanese boxer Satoshi 4-7 after leading 2-1 after first round.

In golf Indian team made superb comeback ... Yesterday Abhijit Singh Chadha disqualified so his score was missing but on second day he scored 1 under ... Abhinav Lohan scored 2 under round and our Rashid Khan scored 4 under with 7 birdies and 3 bogeys ... So with 7 under second round Indian team moved to 3rd position 1 stroke behind Philippines with 4 over ... In individual ranking also Rashid Khan moved to 3rd position with 5 under.

In judo P. Anand's lost his quarter-final against Nabil Hassan of Jordan, 3-5 ... Latika Bhadari lost to a Thai, 0-6 ... Shantibala Devi also lost to a Chinese player, 0-13 ... And our challenge got over in judo with loss of Sandeep Kundu against Uzbek Akmal Irgashev in one-sided quarter final, 18-4.

In tennis Sania started with comfortable win, 61 60 ... Poojashree lost against 7th seed Kai Chen Chan, 26 26 ... In mixed doubles, Sanam & Rushmi win 75 63 in first round, next they r facing 6th seeds Japanese pair Hiroki Kondo & Yurika Sema in R16 ... 6th seeds Sania Mirza & Vishnu Vardhan will face local pair of Yan Bai & Sun Shengnan.

In womens squash our both girls had winning start ... Dipika Pallikkal defeated Chinese Jinye Gu, 11-4 12-10 11-1 ... Joshna Chinnappa defeated Philipino Jemyca Aribado, 11-6 11-7 11-4 ... Both having very tough round in second round, Dipika is facing WR #1 Malaysian Nicol David and Joshna is facing another Malaysian Wee Wern Low.

In mens squash Saurav Ghosal started with win against Kuwaiti player Ammar Altemimi, 11-4 11-4 11-5 ... Siddharth Suchde also started with win over Hong Kong player Siu Wai Dick Lau, 9-11 11-4 11-6 11-4 ... Now Saurav and Siddharth will face each other in quarter-final for place in the semis ... So another medal is sure this time in squash.

In snooker singles Pankaj Advani started with tight win against Qatar player Nisar Ahmed Safuddin, 4-3 .. In R16 Pankaj is facing local favorite Junhui Ding Other hand Aditya Mehta started with comfortable win over Lebanese Mazen Berjaoui 4-0 ... In R16 he is facing Taiwani player Yu-Lun Wu.

In badminton 4th seed Jwala and Diju lost against South Korean pair Shin and Lee in 3 games, 21-17 13-21 16-21 ... In singles Arvind Bhat lost against Boonsak Ponsana 19-21 12-21 ... Shocking defeat of Saina our genuine medal hope ... Feeling sad to see this result ... Saina lost first game against Hong Kong player cheaply but made strong comeback winning second game easily ... In decider Pui Yin Yip played smart game to complete upset win, 8-21 21-8 19-21.

In table tennis doubles Sharath Kamal and Saha lost against South Korean pair in R16 ... In singles Sharath Kamal lost against Sang Eun and Amalraj lost against to Chih Yuan ... Shamini Kumaresan lost against Japanese Sayaka Hirano.

In women volleyball North Korean ream defeated Indian women in straight sets.

India finished on 6th position in 4 x 100 medley, Japan won gold after Chinese team got disqualify.

Rowing - Men's Four
Gold - China 6:06.40
Silver - Inda 6:16.79
Bronze - Uzbekistan 6:22.70

Rowing - Lightweight Men's Four
Gold - Japan 6:10.14
Silver - India 6:13.32
Bronze - Hong Kong 6:14.84

Shooting - Men's 25m Center Fire Pistol Final
Gold - Byung Taek Park (KOR) 586 pts
Silver - Yadong Liu (CHN) 585 pts
Bronze - Vijay Kumar (IND) 583 pts

Tennis News
At ATP World Tour Finals, London, Great Britain

Group A
Bob Bryan (USA)/ Mike Bryan (USA)
Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND)
Mariusz Fyrstenberg (POL)/ Marcin Matkowski (POL)
Jurgen Melzer (AUT)/ Philipp Petzschner (GER)

Group B
Daniel Nestor (CAN)/ Nenad Zimonjic (SRB)
Lukasz Kubot (POL)/ Oliver Marach (AUT)
Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Max Mirnyi (BLR)
Wesley Moodie (RSA)/ Dick Norman (SWE)

Grouping was declared for ATP World Tour Doubles Finals ... Mahesh and Lee are in different groups.

As per entry on his site Philipp Petzschner is decided to play at Doubles final so chances of Rohan and Aisam playing in this prestigeous year-end event looks bleak.
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At $15K Iran F6 Futures, Kish Island

[R1] N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND) bt Ivan ANIKANOV (UKR) 60 61
[R1] (8) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt Abhijeet TIWARI (IND) 64 61
[R1] (4) Walter TRUSENDI (ITA) bt Ronak MANUJA (IND) 60 61

[R2] (6) Gerald MELZER (AUT) bt N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND) 76(5) 46 64
[R2] (8) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt Ervand GASPARYAN (RUS) 36 64 61

[QF] (8) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,548) l (4) Walter TRUSENDI (ITA,435) 16 46

Good to see Ranjeet performed as per his seedings.

Asian Games News
At 2010 Asian Games, Guangzhou, China

Not a productive day for Indians ... Managed to win only couple of medals and both in Wushu ... In 60 kg women category Sandhyarani Devi Wangkhem lost in the final against Iranian Wushu player Khadijeh Azadpour ... In 60 kg men category Bimoljit Singh Mayanglambam won Bronze after his yesterday's loss in the semi-final.

In mens hockey we comfortably defeated Bangladesh 9-0, Sandeep Singh scored 4 goals in the match but other hand Pakistan also scored more dominating victory over Hong Kong, 12-0 ... Our next crucial pool match is against Pakistan ... But Indian women lost 0-1 in crucial match against Korea.

In boxing mens 60 kg category impressive performance by a reigning world youth champion and youth Olympics Bronze medalist Vikas Krishnan against a gold medallist from the prestigious King''s Cup Thai Saylom Ardee, 8-1 ... In mens 75 kg category Vijender Singh was down 1-2 against Chinese Taipei's Yang Yi Ting after second round but in the final round Vijender showed attacking boxing skill to won bout 9-4.

In tennis Mens doubles Karan and Vishnu moved into R16 with comfortable win over Hong Kong pair ... In women doubles Poojashree and Rushmi lost in one-sided match against Japanese pair.

In golf only Rashid Khan managed to score under par round ... Rashid Khan scored hole-in-one on Par3 7th hole in this round ... He is one under after first round, 3 strokes behind Philipino leader and tied for 5th position ... He was 3 under after 17 holes but scored double bogey on last hole ... In team event India is on +11 , four strokes behing 3rd place Srilankan team ... They r tied with Chinese team for 9th place.

Virdhawal Khade won his heat in the 100 metres Fly with 51.25 secs but could not make it into the final as cut-off was 50.91 secs.

In badminton Saina started with comfortable win over her Malaysian opponent Lydia Cheah, 21-15 21-17, to moved into quarters ... But Aditi lost to 4th seed Hirose in 3 games ... Arvind Bhat recieved bye from his Srilankan opponent but surprising loss of Kashyap against Vietnameses player Tien Minh in straight games ... Vishnu and Aparna lost in MXD against Japanese pair after winning first game.

In women waterpolo we also lost our final round-robin match to Uzbekistan 2-20.

In mens basketball we lost against Chinese Taipei.

Wushu - Women's Sanshou 60kg
Gold - Khadijeh Azadpour (IRI)
Silver - Sandhyarani Devi Wangkhem (IND)
Bronze - Paloy Barckkham (LAO)
Bronze - Tzu Yi Wu (TPE)

Men's Sanshou 60kg
Gold - Mohsen Mohammadseifi (IRI)
Silver - KIM Jun Yul Kim (KOR)
Bronze - Bimoljit Singh Mayanglambam (IND)
Bronze - Minh Thong Nguyen (VIE)

Asian Games News
At 2010 Asian Games, Guangzhou, China

India having 11 medals, 1 Gold, 4 Silver and 6 Bronze.

Virdhawal Khade created history winning first swimming medal in 24 yrs ... In 50m Butterfly he won Bronze medal with timing 24.31 ... In the morning he won heat with timing 24.56, which was 5th best in final qualifiers ... So after his unsuccessful bid in yesterday's 50m Freestyle where he missed Bronze by 0.03 sec he managed to win his first big medal.

Another creditable performance by Ashish Kumar in Men's Floor Final to won Bronze ... This is our FIRST medal in gymanastic ... He had very tough challenge from other top Asian gymnasts, still he produced creditable performance to upset other Chinese, Korean and Japanese opponents to won Bronze ... Interestingly in this event they gave 2 Gold medals as 2 gymnasts points tally were same and a Bronze.

Only Harika managed to win Bronze medal in chess, in last round Harika needed victory to won Bronze medal ... In the final round with blacks she defeated Indonesian player Sukandar Irine Kharisma and grabbed Bronze ... Tania Sachdev finished on 6th with 5.5 pts ... In mens event Sasi disappointed as he lost both matches to finished on 9th position with 5.5 pts, Surya Shekhar Ganguly finished on 5th with 6 pts.

In Wushu, Bimoljit Singh Mayanglambam lost in semis against Iranian Mohsen Mohammadseifi ... But Sandhyarani Devi Wangkhem created history reaching in the final beating Laos player Paloy Barckkham in semis ... In the final Sandhyarani is facing Iranian Wushu player Khadijeh Azadpour.

In badminton Aditi Mutatkar moved into R16 with straight games victory over Srilankan player but next she is facing 4th seed Japanese Eriko Hirose ... In womens doubles Jwala and Ashwini moved into R16 due to retirement of Thai pair, our pair won first game 21-13 ... Next they r facing 2nd seed Chinese pair.

In boxing 52kg category Suranjoy Mayengbam started with a 7:2 win over Thai boxer Chatchai Butdee to reached into R16.

In volleyball India scored comfortable much needed win after their one-sided loss against South Korean team ... We scored win over Vietnam 3-0, 25-20 25-16 25-23.

In table tennis Sharath Kamal and Subhajit moved into R16.

In hockey we faced poor loss against Japanese team 3-0.

In football round of 16 Japan outplayed us to scored comfortable 5-0 win but still creditable performance by our young team.

Men's 50m Butterfly Final
Gold - Jiawei Zhou (CHN) 23.66
Silver - Masayuki Kishida (JPN) 24.13
Bronze - Virdhawal Khade (IND) 24.31
4 Doohee Jeong (KOR) 24.37
5 Weiwu Chen (CHN) 24.43
6 Rammaru Harada (JPN) 24.51
7 Gyucheol Chang (KOR) 24.60
8 Rustam Khudiyev (KAZ) 24.72

Artistic Gymnastics - Men's Floor Final
Gold - Chenglong Zhang (CHN) (6.400 + 9.000) 15.400 pts
Gold - Soo Myun Kim (KOR) (6.600 + 8.800) 15.400 pts
Bronze - Ashish Kumar (IND) (6.300 + 8.625) 14.925
4 Zhe Feng (CHN) (6.100 + 8.800) 14.900 pts
5 Hisashi Mizutori (JPN) (6.200 + 8.625) 14.825 pts
6 Won Chul Yoo (KOR) (5.800 + 8.775 - 0.300 P) 14.275 pts
7 Otabek Masharipov (UZB) (5.500 + 8.500) 14.000 pts
8 Ryotaka Deguchi (JPN) (5.900 + 7.525) 13.425 pts

Chess - Women's Individual
Gold - Hou Yifan (CHN) 8.5 pts
Silver - Zhao Xue (CHN) 7.5 pts
Bronze - Harika Dronavalli (IND) 6.5 pts

Tennis - Men's Team
Gold - Chinese Taipei
Silver - Uzbekistan
Bronze - India and Japan

Asian Games News
At 2010 Asian Games, Guangzhou, China

Today very so-so day as we failed to win a single medal in shooting ... In snooker team event we won Silver ... In semis we defeated Pakistani team 3-0 but we lost final against Chinese team 1-3, only Aditya won his match.

In tennis we lost semi-final 1-2 against top-seed Chinese Taipei team ... In my view this loss was due to poor team selection from our captain Mr. Nandan Bal ... In first single he decided to play Sanam Singh over Karan Rastogi, who was in good form ... But Sanam gave his full efforts in singles though lost in 3 sets against young Tsung Hua Yang ... Somi won his match in straight sets against Ti Chen as WR #35 Yen-Hsun Lu was unavailable due to injury ... Then Nandan decided to play Sanam with Somi in final doubles rubber, who was tired after playing long match and also taken medical injury break in late of third set instead of playing fresh legs of Karan and Vishnu, Somi and Sanam lost in straight sets to blown up our chance of making final ... So our team need to remain happy with Bronze.

For me best performance of the day came from our young 19 yrs old swimmer Virdhawal Khade ... Who qualified for the Men's 50m Freestyle Final with 5th best timing in the heat, 22.98 secs ... In the final he finished on 4th position with 22.87 secs timing, he missed bronze medal by mere 0.03 sec ... Very positive performance from him.

Our 2 Wushu players are in medal round in mens and womens 60 kg category ... Doha's Bronze medal winner Bimoljit Singh Mayanglambam is in semis and facing Iranian Mohsen Mohammadseifi ... Sandhyarani Devi Wangkhem is playing against Laos player Paloy Barckkham in semis.

Our best hope in weightlifting,Ravi Kumar Katulu finished 5th in 69 kg category ... He lifted total 311 kg weight, 10 kg less than bronze medal winner Indonesian lifter.

Mens hockey team started with win, they won 7-0 against Hong Kong team ... We should won that match by more than 10 goals margin.

In volleyball Korea defeated us convincingly , 3-0 (25-19 25-20 25-19) .. Frankly after watching scratchy performance against Kazakhstan I was expected this ... We need to improve our overall performance to fight in place for semis ... Again our blocking and defence was poor.

Snooker - Men's Snooker Team
Gold - China
Junhui Ding
Wenbo Liang
Pengfei Tian

Silver - India
Brijesh Damani
Aditya Mehta
Yasin Merchant

Bronze - Pakistan
Sohail Shehzad
Shahram Changezi
Imran Shehzad

Thailand
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
Noppadon Noppachorn
Ratchapol Pu-Ob-Orm

Pool - Men's 8-Ball Pool Singles
Gold - Po-Cheng Kuo (TPE)
Silver - Ibrahim Amir (MAS)
Bronze - Alok Kumar (IND) and Irsal Afrinneza Nasution (INA)

Tennis News
At €2.75M Paris Masters, France

Doubles Final
(6) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Max Mirnyi (BLR) bt Mark Knowles (BAH)/ Andy Ram (ISR) 75 75

At last Mahesh and Max managed to lift title in 2010 and that is also Masters title ... In the final they defeated unseeded giant-killers Knowles and Ram.

In the first set they take important break in 12th game to won this set ... They didn't face any break point on their serve ... But in second set Mahesh lost his serve in 3rd game, they immediatly broke Knowles's serve in next game to make it 2-all ... In 12th game they again broke Knowles's serve, after leading 0-40 they needed 4 match point before completing victory ... So this was their first title of 2010 after playing five finals.

Mahesh Bhupathi - "Coming into this week it was a bit of a dog fight [to qualify for the Finals], but with the way we played we won and now I think we will go in as the No. 3 seeds. So we’re hopefully going to have a good showing there and finish the year strong."


“We’ve been playing well. We reached the final in Valencia and put ourselves in a position to win again today," said Bhupathi. "It was very frustrating not to win a title before now, we’d been playing well in the Masters 1000 [tournaments], but if you keep putting yourself in the position you’re going to eventually win. It’s been 12 years since I last won [the Paris-Bercy title] and I’m happy to be out here so long."

Asian Games News
At 2010 Asian Games, Guangzhou, China

Pankaj Advani won first gold medal for India in 2010 Guangzhou Asian games ... In very close final he defeated Myanmar's Nay Thway Oo 3-2 (33-100, 100-61, 12-101, 101-4, 100-45) ... Alok Kumar lost aginst Po-Cheng Kuo in semi-final of Men's 8-Ball Pool Singles, so he will settle with Bronze ... Snooker team consisting Yasin Merchant, Brajesh Damani and Aditya mehta moved into semis beating Chinese Taipei team 3-1 in quarter-final ... Tomorrow they will face Pakistani team to place in the final.

In shooting our wWomen's 10m Air Pistol team missed gold medal by a single points and Heena Sidhu also missed individual final by one place ... In Men's 10m Air Pistol Final, Vijay Kumar qualified for the final on 8th place but he scored best score in final round to won Bronze medal.

In tennis Sanam and Somdev won their respective singles matches in contrasting style to helped our Men team to entered into semis beating Thailand 2-1 ... Thai team won doubles match, Karan and Vishnu lost doubles against Ratiwatanas in 3 sets ... In semis we r facing top-seed Chinese Taipei team.

Our mens volleyball team had shaky start ... Before this they defeated Kazakhstan in straight 3 sets but here they lost first set 24-26 ... In second set also our team was struggling near net, their blocking was poor and making errors on serving ... Managed to lift game on crucial stage to won second set 25-23 ... In third set they played very improved game and controlled from the start to won 25-18 ... In fourth set Kazak players started with spirited game and were taking early lead ... But turning point of the set came when we were 10-15 down then we won 9 points on a row when Gurinder Singh was serving and that turned this set in our favor ... We won this set 25-21 and match in 1 hrs and 41 mins ... Tomorrow we r having crucial match against Doha Gold medalist South Korea.

So now we r having 1 Gold, 3 Silver and 1 Bronze medals.

Men's English Billiards Singles
Gold - Pankaj Advani (IND)
Silver- Nay Thway Oo Oo (MYA)
Bronze - Peter Gilchrist (SIN)
Bronze - Kyaw Oo Oo (MYA)

Shooting - Women's 10m Air Pistol Team
Gold - South Korea 1141 pts
Yunmi Gim (96 97 92 98) 383 pts
Byunghee Kim (94 97 94 94) 379 pts
Ho Lim Lee (95 94 97 93) 379 pts

Silver - India 1140 pts
Heena Sidhu (94 98 93 96) 381 pts
Annu Raj Singh (91 95 97 97) 380 pts
Sonia Rai (95 95 95 94) 379 pts

Bronze - China 1139 pts
Qi Sun (98 94 96 97) 385 pts
Wen Jun Guo (93 96 98 95) 382 pts
Yu Ling Su (94 94 91 93) 372 pts

Shooting - Men's 10m Air Pistol Final
Gold - Daemyung Lee (KOR) (99 99 97 97 96 97) 585 + 100.8 = 685.8 pts
Silver - Zongliang Tan (CHN) (96 96 97 100 99 97) 585 + 99.5 = 684.5 pts
Bronze - Vijay Kumar (IND) (97 98 98 96 97 93) 579 + 101.4 = 680.4 pts

Tennis News
At €2.75M Paris Masters, France

[SF] (6) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Max Mirnyi (BLR) bt Frantisek Cermak (CZE)/ Michal Mertinak (SLO) 63 63

Mahesh an Max scored comfortable win over Cermak and Mertinak in an hour long match to moved into the final ... So they favored Bops and Aisam, who will now travel to London as a first alternate pair.

Asian Games News
At 2010 Asian Games, Guangzhou, China

India opened their medals account winning two Silvers on first day in shooting ... Gagan Narang won Silver in individual Men's 10m Air Rifle and helped team to won Silver in Men's 10m Air Rifle Team event also.

Otherwise we had poor day as in Men's 50m Pistol Team we ended on 5th position, 1646 pts, they were 21 pts behind Bronze medal winner Japan ... In Women's 10m Air Rifle Team event w finished on 7th position with 1176 pts ... Omkar Singh finished on 7th position in individual Men's 50m Pistol event ... Abhinav Bindra failed to qualify for final in individual event.

In Billiards Pankaj Advani entered into semis but Geet Sethi lost in pre-quarter finals.

Indian mens tennis team scored comfortable win over Qatar team.

Indian women won 4-0 against Malaysian side ... Still not convincing perfomance I would say shaky start ... We gave lot many open spaces in defence, though Malaysian failed to take advantage but I don't think other top 3 teams will fail to take this advantage.

Our many teams lost today, women's badminton team lost 2-3 to Indonesia, Saina and pair of Jwala/ Ashwini won their matches ... Mens badminton team lost to Chinese Taipei 1-3, Kashyap won tight match in 3 games ... Women tennis team also lost to Indonesia 0-3 as Sania didn't play due to ear infection ... Table tennis women team lost to Singapore 0-3 in second round after winning first round 3-0 against Laos ... Mens table tennis team lost in first round to Chinese Taipei 0-3 ... Our rowers have also poor start so far.

Shooting - Men's 10m Air Rifle Team
Gold - China
Yifei Cao
Jikang Yu
Qinan Zhu

Silver - India
Abhinav Bindra
Gagan Narang
Sanjeev Rajput

Bronze - R.O. Korea
Sungsoon Choi
Jonghyun Kim
Kiwon Kim

Shooting - Men's 10m Air Rifle
Gold - Qinan Zhu (CHN) (100 100 98 100 100 100 = 598 + 104.0) 702.0 pts
Silver - Gagan Narang (IND) (99 98 100 100 100 100 = 597 + 103.7) 700.7 pts
Bronze - Kiwon Kim (KOR) (99 98 100 100 99 100 = 596 + 104.0) 700.0 pts

Tennis News
At €2.75M Paris Masters, France

[QF] (3) Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) l Mark Knowles (BAH)/ Andy Ram (ISR) 16 46
[QF] (6) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Max Mirnyi (BLR) bt (2) Daniel Nestor (CAN)/ Nenad Zimonjic (SRB) 67(8) 64 10-7

Mahesh and Max getting into the form just before Doubles ATP Final ... They scored excellent comeback victory over WR #2 pair of Nestor and Zimo in hard fought match after losing first set ... But in other match Lee and Lukas lost easily against Knowles and Ram.

Football News
At 2010 Asian Games, Guangzhou, China

Group D
India U-23 bt Singapore U 23 4-1

Goal Scored - Sheikh Jewel Raja (IND) 13', Balwant Singh (IND) 62', K Singh (IND) 67', Manish Maithani (IND) 75' and Luo Zhenlun (SIN) 83'

In their last group match Indian boys needed big victory to keep alive their hope to qualify for final 16 and they delivered against Singapore team ... After taking early lead in second half Indian boys scored 3 goals in 15 mins to lead 4-0 before Singapore team managed to score a goal ... Only worrying sight is our team is conceding late goals, in all 3 matches they conceded late goals.

India’s only hope of progressing to the next round was by finishing as one of the four best 3rd placed teams ... India finished 3rd in Group D with three points with a goal difference of 0 ... Other three groups are still to be completed, but this win guarantees India's qualification to the round of 16 as they are assured of finishing at least above Uzbekistan and Maldives among the 6 third placed teams.

India U-23 l Qatar U-23 1-2

Goal Scored - D. Ravanan (IND) 18' and Jarrala Ali (QAT) 80' & 90+'

Asian Games defending gold medalists Qatar overcame Indian challenge to scored win ... We take early lead but failed to take advantage due to defensive mind set and allowed 2 late goals to lose match ... Jarrala Ali's last goal was just before hooter ... But overall improved performance by Indian side.

India U-23 l Kuwait U-23 0-2

Goal Scored - Khaled Matar (KUW) 6' & 90+'

Newly crowned West Asian Champions proved too strong for Indian side who played defensive game in their first group match.
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At FIFA International Friendly 2010, Sharjah

India l Iraq 0-2

Goal Scored - Mustafa Kareem (IRQ) 17' P, Karim Mahidi (IRQ) 66'

Defending Asian Cup champions Iraq scored comfortable win over Indian side scoring a goal in each half ... They were deserving winner as they outplayed Indian side in all departments ... In later part of second half Indians played good move but they couldn't finish, more over our 2 best strikers, Bhaichung Bhutia and Sunil Chhetri, were out of this match due to injury but our bench strength didn't impress with their performance ... This was India's 5th defeat in 7 international friendly matches.

Squash News
At $74k Qatar Classic, Doha

[R2] Dipika Pallikal (IND,36) l (6) Laura Massaro (ENG,9) 6-11 5-11 13-15 (31m)

[R1] Dipika Pallikal (IND,36) bt (15) Aisling Blake (IRL,22) 13-11 3-11 4-11 11-4 12-10 (64m)
[R1] Joshna Chinappa (IND,37) l (10) Jaclyn Hawkes (NZL,13) 5-11 11-4 4-11 11-9 8-11 (47m)

Dipika scored good fighting win over top-25 player winning final game on extra points in first round in this big tournament ... Joshna also had chance to upset top-15 player but lost her match under pressure ... In second round Dipika lost first 2 games easily but produced very inspiring performance in 3rd game before losing to top-10 British player.

Sorry guys, last three days was out for vacation with family ... :-)

Tennis News
At €2.75M Paris Masters, France

[R2] (3) Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt John Isner (USA)/ Sam Querrey (USA) 67(3) 75 10-6
[R2] (7) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) l Mark Knowles (BAH)/ Andy Ram (ISR) 36 26
[R2] (6) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Max Mirnyi (BLR) bt Jonathan Erlich (ISR)/ Michael Kohlmann (GER) 36 61 10-5

[QF] (3) Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Mark Knowles (BAH)/ Andy Ram (ISR)
[QF] (6) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Max Mirnyi (BLR) vs (2) Daniel Nestor (CAN)/ Nenad Zimonjic (SRB)

Lee and Lukas scored super hard fought comeback victory against big serving Americans to moved into quarters ... Mahesh and Max also scored important victory and with that they qualified for season ending Doubles Final tournament at London ... Rohan and Aisam were unlucky as they needed victory in their second round match to qualify for Doubles Final but they lost in one-sided match against experienced doubles players, Knowles and Ram ... So mostly now Rohan and Aisam will be available for their respective countries for Asian games.
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At $50K Knoxville Challenger, USA

[R1] (Q) Yuki Bhambri (IND,520) l Lester Cook (USA,208) 46 64 46

[Q3] (7) Yuki Bhambri (IND,520) bt (1) Fritz Wolmarans (RSA,348) 64 62
[Q2] (7) Yuki Bhambri (IND,520) bt Brett Joelson (USA,1136) 64 64

Yuki scored another good win against top-350 player in the final qualifying to qualify for back to back US challengers ... But in first round he faced experienced Lester Cook, who defeated him in straight sets.
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At $50K Loughborough Challenger, Great Britain

[QF] Purav Raja (IND)/ Sadik Kadir (AUS) l (3) Flavio Cipolla (ITA)/ Simone Vagnozzi (ITA) 67(4) 67(5)

[R1] Purav Raja (IND)/ Sadik Kadir (AUS) bt James Cluskey (IRL)/ Colin O'Brien (IRL) 64 75

So after long time Purav and Sadik crossed first hurdle, hopefully they r getting their old touch back to shine in 2011 season.
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At $10K USA F30 Futures, Pensacola (clay)

[R1] Rupesh ROY (IND,555) l (6) Jordan COX (USA,468) 76(5) 57 36

[Q4] Sunil-Kumar SIPAEYA (IND,UNR) l Mark OLJACA (USA,UNR) 36 26

Sunil lost easily in the final qualifying .. In first round Rupesh put fighting performance against seeded American player.
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At $10K Thailand F4 Futures 2010, Khon Kaen

[R2] Srirambalaji NARAYANASWAMY (IND,1726) l Wan GAO (CHN,951) 63 46 46
[R2] Vijayant MALIK (IND,802) l Alec WITMEUR (BEL,1229) 46 36

[R1] Srirambalaji NARAYANASWAMY (IND,1726) bt (6) Christopher RUNGKAT (INA,633) 61 26 64
[R1] Vijayant MALIK (IND,802) bt (8) Dorian DESCLOIX (FRA,700) 76(5) 75

Doubles
[R1] (4) FRANDJI (USA)/ KELLNER (HUN) bt ROY (IND)/ SIPAEYA (IND) 76(3) 76(5)

Srirambalaji and Vijayant started really well in Thai futures beating seeded players in first round ... but lost in second round which were more easier for them.

Tennis News
At $50K Knoxville Challenger, USA
[Q2] (7) Yuki Bhambri (IND,520) vs Brett Joelson (USA,1136)
After poor last week's challenger Somi dropped out of top-100, #106.
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At $10K USA F30 Futures, Pensacola (clay)
[Q3] Sunil-Kumar SIPAEYA (IND,UNR) bt (2) Tyler HOCHWALT (USA,709) 61 36 64
[Q4] Sunil-Kumar SIPAEYA (IND,UNR) vs Mark OLJACA (USA,UNR)
Sunil scored heartening win over top-725 player ... Good to see he is having few wins under his belt after career threatening back injury.

Tennis News
At €1.357M Valencia Open, Spain

[F] (3) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Max Mirnyi (BLR) l (WC) Andy Murray (GBR)/ Jamie Murray (GBR) 67(8) 75 7-10

[SF] (3) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Max Mirnyi (BLR) bt (1) Lukasz Kubot (POL)/ Oliver Marach (AUT) 76(3) 64

Mahesh and Max lost very close final against Murray brothers, who played as wild-card pair ... After losing close set intie-break they won second set but in STB Murray brothers were strong for our pair ... Still good performance for Mahesh and Max considering their recent form before Valencia open.
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At €2.75M Paris Masters, France

[R1] (3) Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) bye
[R1] (7) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) bye
[R1] (6) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Max Mirnyi (BLR) bye

As seeded our all players having first round bye at Paris Masters ... If they wins their second round matches then Lee and Rohan can have face-off in quarter-final ... Mahesh and Max can face second seed Nestor and Zimo in quarter-final.
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At $50K Charlottesville Challenger, USA

[SF] Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Treat Conrad Huey (PHI) l Robert Kendrick (USA)/ Donald Young (USA) 36 76(5) 9-11

As expected match was cracker though our pair lost in close STB ... So now Somi will move to Asian games.
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At $100K+H Taipei Challenger, Taipei

[F] (2) Su-Wei Hsieh (TPE)/ Sania Mirza (IND) l (3) Kai-Chen Chang (TPE)/ Chia-Jung Chuang (TPE) 46 26

[SF] (2) Su-Wei Hsieh (TPE)/ Sania Mirza (IND) bt Jarmila Groth (AUS)/ Tamarine Tanasugarn (THA) 46 64 10-8

In the final Sania and Hsieh lost cheaply against Taiwani pair ... They couldn't repeat their comeback victory of semi-final in the final ... Sania will also move to Asian games.
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At $50K Knoxville Challenger, USA

[Q1] (7) Yuki Bhambri (IND,554) bye
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At $10K USA F30 Futures, Pensacola (clay)

[Q1] Sunil-Kumar SIPAEYA (IND,UNR) bt Diallo JONES (TOG,UNR) 60 61
[Q2] Sunil-Kumar SIPAEYA (IND,UNR) bt Ben ZINK (USA,UNR) 63 36 61

[Q3] Sunil-Kumar SIPAEYA (IND,UNR) vs (2) Tyler HOCHWALT (USA,709)

Good to see Sunil Working hardon lower level to make comeback after long injury break.

Tennis News
At €1.357M Valencia Open, Spain

[QF] (4) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) l Marc Lopez (ESP)/ David Marrero (ESP) 26 46

In this match Rohan and Aisam had 7 break oints but failed to convert one, other hand Spaniards had 3 break points and converted all ... They need to work on that aspects as if we check their last few matches stats it show they created many break point opportunities but convert ratio was low ... So still not a great indoor season for them.
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At $50K Charlottesville Challenger, USA

[QF] (2) Somdev Devvarman (IND,96) l Chris Guccione (AUS,444) 67(4) 36

Doubles
[QF] Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Treat Conrad Huey (PHI) bt (Q) Andrew Anderson (RSA)/ Chris Eaton (GBR) 76(4) 46 12-10

[SF] Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Treat Conrad Huey (PHI) vs Robert Kendrick (USA)/ Donald Young (USA)

Was hoping win but it looks from report Somi struggled against big serves from Guccione ... But I m sure he will work on his short-coming in break and we will see much stronger Somi against these so called 'taller players' in next season.

I double he and Treat r semis with hard fought win against qualifiers ... In semis they r having cracker match against American opponents.