Olympics News
At London Olympics 2012, England

Archery
Men's Recurve Individual
[R1] Jayanta Talukdar (IND,19) l Jacob Wukie (USA,49) 0-6 (22-27 26-30 28-29)
[R1] Rahul Banerjee (IND,54) bt Jantsan Gantugs (MON,33) 6-0 (29-27 25-24 30-25)
[R1] Tarundeep Rai (IND,18) bt Juan Carlos Stevens (CUB,48) 6-5 (27-28 27-27 27-28 28-27 27-26) (in shoot-off Tarundeep won 9-8)

[R2] Rahul Banerjee (IND,54) l Rafal Dobrowolski (POL,104) 3-7 (28-28 25-27 29-26 26-29 25-26)
[R2] Tarundeep Rai (IND,18) l Bubmin Kim (KOR,21) 2-6 (26-27 28-30 28-25 26-28)

Women's Recurve Individual
[R1] Chekrovolu Swuro (IND,46) l Jennifer Nichols (USA,15) 5-6 (27-24 25-27 25-25 29-26 25-28) (shoot-off 9-9 but Jennifer's shot was closest)

Badminton
Men's Singles - Group D
Kashyap Parupalli (IND,21) bt (10) Nguyen Tien Minh (VIE,11) 21-9 21-14

[PQF] Kashyap Parupalli (IND,21) vs Niluka Karunaratne (SRI,48)

Mixed Doubles - Group C
Viju D (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) l Lee Yong Dae (KOR)/ Ha Jung Eun (KOR) 15-21 15-21

Women's Doubles - Group B
Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) bt Shinta Sari Mulia (SIN)/ Yao Lei (SIN) 21-16 21-15

Boxing
Men's Light Fly (49kg)
[R1] Devendro Singh Laishram (IND) bt Bayron Molina Figueroa (HON) RSC (2:24 R1)

[R2] Devendro Singh Laishram (IND) vs Serdamba Purevdorj (MGL)

Men's Light Welter (64kg)
[R1] Manoj Kumar (IND) bt Serdar Hudayberdiyev (TRK) 13-7

[R2] Manoj Kumar (IND) vs Thomas Stalker (GBR)

Judo - Women's - 63kg
[R1] Garima Chaudhary (IND) l Yoshie Ueno (JPN) 000-100 (1:21 Ippon)

Rowing
Men's Single Sculls - Quarter Final 3
4 Sawarn Singh (IND) 7:11.59

Men's Lightweight Double Sculls - Repechage 2
6 Sandeep Kumar (IND)/ Manjeet Singh (IND) 6:54.20

Tennis
Men's doubles
[R2] (7) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) l Julien Benneteau (FRA)/ Richard Gasquet (FRA) 36 46

Weightlifting - Men's 69kg - Group B
6 Ravi Kumar Katulu (IND) (136 + 167) 303 kgs

In men's singles terrific confident win by Kashyap against WR #11 Nguyen Tien Minh ... Kashyap defeated his Vietnamese opponent in 35 minutes dominating both games ... In pre-quarter final he is facing Sri Lankan Niluka Karunaratne.

Jwala and Diju ended their campaign with another loss ... So 0-3 win-loss record for them in this Olympics against their top 10 opponents ... But disappointing performance considering they failed to win a single game in three matches ... Jwala is still having chance in women's doubles to qualify for quarter-final with Ashwini.

Jwala and Ashwini scored straight games victory over higher ranked Singaporean pair ... After winning the first game after controlling from the start our pair was leading 9-0 and 11-1 in the second but after that they made numerous errors mainly by Jwala near the net ... Singaporean pair tried hard but difference was too much for them in the end ... Despite victory our pair mostly missing the place in quarter final on tie-break as they needed victory with 13 points difference but they managed to win by 11 points difference.

American archer Jacob Wukie produced perfect arrows hitting to beat Jayanta comfortably ... Chekrovolu Swuro missed chance as on the final arrow she required 9 point arrow to win this match but she managed only 6 ... In shoot-off both archers hit 9 points but American Jennifer Nichols arrow was closest.

Rahul Banerjee scored comfortable one-sided victory over Jantsan Gantugs in three straight sets ... But in the second round Rahul failed to produce consistent performance against Polish Rafal Dobrowolski ... In the first set both scored 28 ... Then in the second set Rahul's performance dip and Rafal take advantage to win it ... In the third set Rahul scored 29 to win it ... In the fourth Rafal scored 29 points and Rahul struggled ... In the fifth Rafal managed only 26 but Rahul scored only 25 to lose the set and match.

After poor performance by other archers Tarundeep Rai started on the back-foot ... After three sets he was down 1-5 but he fought back to win next 2 sets and take match into shoot-off ... In shoot-off Tarundeep hit 9 and Juan managed only 8 ... In pre-quarter final Tarundeep faced 2nd seed Korean Bubmin Kim ... In the first set Tarundeep was leading 18-17 after 2 arrows ... Kim scored 10 on the last and Tarundeep managed only 8 to lose this set ... Tarundeep never recovered from this lost opportunity ... In the second set Tarundeep scored 10, 9, 9 but Kim scored perfect 10 on all 3 arrows to win it ... Tarundeep won the third set when little lapse of concentration from Kim ... In the fourth Tarundeep managed 8, 8 in first 2 arrows but Kim managed again perfect 10 in his first 2 shots ... Tarundeep scored 10 on last arrow but 4 points deficit was far big as Kim scored 8 on the final arrow to win this match.

Japanese Yoshie Ueno easily defeated Garima Chaudhary by ippon in 1 minute 21 seconds with Kuzure-Kesa-Gatame hold.

Sawarn Singh finished on 4th position with 7:11.59 in Men's Single Sculls quarter final ... Conditions must be tough as all rowers struggled ... Only 10 rowers from 24 rowers managed to clocked below 7 minutes time with best time was from British rower, 6:52.10 ... Top 3 rowers were going to qualify for semis so Sawarn Singh missed that but he will participate in Semifinal C/D for 13 to 24 positions.

Sandeep Kumar and Manjeet Singh ended last in Repechage 2 with 6:54.20 ... They will participate in final rankings semifinal C/D.

In weightlifting, Ravi Kumar Katulu finished with disappointing (136 + 167) 303 kgs total lift in Men's 69kg - Group B.

Devendro Singh scored very dominating win against Honduras boxer Bayron Molina Figueroa when refree stopped contest when 36 seconds were remaining of the first round ... Devendro Singh was attacking from the start ... Figueroa needed 2 standing count-down before refree stopped this one-sided bout ... Next he is facing experienced Mongolian boxer Serdamba Purevdorj, who is silver medalist from Beijing Olympics and he also won World championship in 2009 and bronze medal in 2011.

Manoj Kumar also scored convincing victory over Turkmenistan boxer ... In the first round both boxers played cautiously and the round ended 2-all ... In the second round Manoj Kumar was aggressive and won this round comfortably 7-3 ... After taking lead Manoj Kumar played the final round without taking much risk but still won it 4-2 ... Next he is having tough match against local boxer, Thomas Stalker

Shocking loss for our 7th seed pairing of Mahesh and Rohan against tricky French pair ... In the first set our pair wasted 5 break points and other hand French pair converted one from one to win it ... In the second set our pair broke early to lead 2-0 but French pair immediately broke back and then take important break in 9th game and then hold their serve to win this set (match).

Worst possible draw for Sania and Lee in mixed doubles ... They r in top draw, in the first round they r facing Serbian pair of Nenad Zimonjic and Ana Ivanovic ... And if they win this then they will face top-seed Max Mirnyi and Victoria Azarenka.

Olympics News
At London Olympics 2012, England

Shooting - Men's 10m Air Rifle

3 Gagan Narang (IND) (100 100 98 100 100 100) 598 pts
16 Abhinav Bindra (IND) (99 99 100 100 99 97) 594 pts

Men's 10m Air Rifle - Final
Gold - Alin George Moldoveanu (ROU) (599 + 103.1) = 702.1 points
Silver - Niccolo Campriani (ITA) (599 + 102.5) = 701.5 points
Bronze - Gagan Narang (IND) (598 + 103.1) = 701.1 points
(10.7 9.7 10.6 10.7 10.4 10.6 9.9 9.5 10.3 10.7 = 103.1)

Archery - Women's Individual

[R1] Bombayla Devi Laishram (IND,48) bt Evangelia Psarra (GRE,57) 6-4 (25-27 28-24 28-26 23-23 25-25)

[R2] Bombayla Devi Laishram (IND,48) l Aida Roman (MEX,13) 2-6 (26-30 25-24 24-26 20-27)

Badminton

Women's Singles - Group E
(4) Saina Nehwal (IND,5) bt Lianne Tan (BEL,55) 21-4 21-14

Women's Doubles - Group B
Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) bt Cheng Wen Hsing (TPE)/ Chien Yu Chin (TPE) 25-23 16-21 21-18

Boxing - Men's Light Heavy (81kg)

[R1] Sumit Sangwan (IND) l Yamaguchi Falcao Florentino (BRA) 14-15

Men's Hockey - Group B

India l Netherlands 2-3
Goal Scored - Dharamvir Singh (IND) 45, Shivendra Singh (IND) 48' and Robert van der Horst (NED) 20', Roderick Weusthof (NED) 29' PC, Mink van der Weerden (NED) 51' PC

Tennis

Men's singles
[R1] (ALT) Vishnu Vardhan (IND,302) l Blaz Kavcic (SLO,77) 36 26

Men's doubles
[R1] Leander Paes (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) bt Robin Haase (NED)/ Jean-Julien Rojer (NED) 76(1) 46 62
[R1] (7) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) bt Max Mirnyi (BLR)/ Alexander Bury (BLR) 76(4) 67(4) 8-6

[R2] Leander Paes (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) vs (2) Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA)/ Michael Llodra (FRA)
[R2] (7) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) vs Julien Benneteau (FRA)/ Richard Gasquet (FRA)

In Men's 10m Air Rifle event Gagan qualified for the final scoring 598 points ... He scored perfect 100 pts in 5 rounds and had lost 2 pts in the third ... He is currently 1 point behind two leaders ... But Abhinav missed final by 2 points in this high scoring event ... In the final round Abhinav needed 99 or better to qualify but he managed only 97 ... So last Olympics gold medalist failed to qualify for the final.

Gagan Narang won the BRONZE medal in Men's 10m Air Rifle ... With that Gagan Narang becomes India's 8th individual medalist at Olympics, following Khashaba Jhadev (1952 - Wrestling), Leander Paes (1996 - Tennis), Karnam Malleshwari (2000 - Weightlifting), Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore (2004 - Shooting), Abhinav Bindra (2008 -Shooting), Vijender Singh (2008 - Boxing) and Sushil Kumar (2008 - Wrestling) ... Very happy for Gagan, who is a talented shooter but before this failed to win an individual medal at the major games like Olympics and Asiad ... So deserving win ... In the final after 6 shots he was in the second position but his next two below 10 points shots drop him on fourth position ... But Gagan controlled his nerve and produced next shot over 10 and 10.7 last shot to win the Bronze ... He missed Silver by 0.4 points.

Bombayla Devi Laishram had tough time against Greece archer but she moved into the second round ... After losing first set Bombayla Devi won next two ... In the fourth Bombayla Devi's first arrow was 4 points but she recovered scoring 9 and 10 in next two arrows ... Other hand Greece archer failed to take advantage so both archers shared 1 point after 23-23 ... The last set also ended with 25-25 and Bombayla Devi won this match with one point.

Bombayla Devi was struggling in the first match and same happened against Mexical archer Aida Roman in the second round ... Aida take full advantage of inconsistency of Bombayla Devi and scored comfortable win ... Aida won the first and the third set ... Bombayla Devi won the second set but in the fourth set Bombayla Devi missed target by her 1st arrow scoring zero points ... Shocking.

In tennis, Blaz Kavcic broke Vishnu early and kept the advantage ... At 3-5 while serving for staying in the set Vishnu again failed to hold his serve and lost the first set ... In the second set also Blaz controlled the game and broke Vishnu twice to win this match.

Belarus pair gave tough time to Rohan and Mahesh, who won this tight match in 2 hours and 26 minutes ... Mahesh and Rohan won the first set in tie-break but lost the second set in tie-break with same score ... In the final set our pair take crucial break in 13th game to win this match ... In the second round they r facing tricky French pair of Benneteau and Gasquet.

Lee started his Olympics doubles medal quest with a new partner, Vishnu Vardhan ... They won the first set after dominating tie-break ... In the second set both pairs had multiple breaks before Dutch pair take crucial break in 9th game and our pair failed to convert break point in next game to lost it ... In the decider our pair broke their Dutch opponent int 6th and 8th games to win it comfortably ... This was Vishnu's first win at Olympics ... Next they r facing tough challenge of 2nd seed French pair Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Michael Llodra.

In boxing Sumit Sangwan failed to play his game due to quick footwork by Brazilian Yamaguchi Falcao Florentino ... Brazilian Yamaguchi scored important points when matters ... He won the first 2 rounds with identical 5-4 score ... In the final round Sumit tried hard after falling behind 2 points but he managed to win 6-5 and lost bout by 1 point ... From my point of view this looked controversial decision considering Sumit dominated second round with scoring punches and still lost that round 4-5 ... tough luck for the kid.

In hockey, Dutch side were better on the field in the first half and they take lead through field goal in 20th minute ... They doubled their lead in 29th minute converting 1st penalty corner and were leading 2-0 at half-time ... But in the second half Indians came back firing their all cylinders ... We scored 2 field goals in 5 minutes to make it 2-all but Dutch side converted their second penalty corner to regained lead ... Then they defended well to complete the victory ... Dutch side converted both penalty corners but we failed to convert from our two penalty corners.

Saina scored another comfortable win in 24 minutes against Belgian Lianne Tan to win Group E ... Saina dominated the first game to win it in 9 minutes ... Lianne Tan gave little fight in the second but Saina was too good for her.

Ashwini and Jwala scored hard fought win over WR #10 Taipei pair ... Our pair needed extra points to win the first game ... Taipei pair fought back in the second game to win it lot easily ... In the decider both pairs gave their full but our pair won important points to complete victory and also keep their hope of qualifying for quarter-final from the group.

Tennis News
At $10K India F12 Futures, Chennai

[R1] (1) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND,397) bt (WC) Aditya Hari SASONGKO (INA,1486) 60 61
[R1] Sidharth RAWAT (IND,963) bt Zach ITZSTEIN (AUS,943) 64 36 63
[R1] Chih-Jen HO (TPE,1312) bt (Q) Fei Yun LIAO (TPE,1409) 62 63
[R1] (6) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,756) bt Abhijeet TIWARI (IND,1244) 61 63
[R1] (4) Antoine ESCOFFIER (FRA,568) bt (WC) Chinmay PRADHAN (IND,UNR) 60 61
[R1] Elbert SIE (INA,874) bt Vignesh PERANAMALLUR (IND,1156) 62 61
[R1] Yang LU (CHN,1225) bt (WC) Kumara P Saradhi ADAVELLY (IND,UNR) 62 61
[R1] Perakiat SIRILUETHAIWATTANA (THA,941) bt (8) Chieh-Fu WANG (TPE,798) 62 64
[R1] (Q) Ajai SELVARAJ (IND,1312) bt (5) Suk-Young JEONG (KOR,696) 76(2) 63
[R1] Jeson PATROMBON (PHI,889) bt (Q) Chandril SOOD (IND,1724) 64 16 63
[R1] Kaza Vinayak SHARMA (IND,946) bt Ashwin VIJAYRAGAVAN (IND,864) 62 46 64
[R1] (3) Saketh MYNENI (IND,505) bt (Q) Ronak MANUJA (IND,1865) 62 61
[R1] (7) Hyun-Woo NAM (KOR,776) bt (Q) Jui MAO (TPE,1787) 61 63
[R1] (Q) Bastien FAVIER (FRA,1787) bt (Q) Weerapat DOAKMAIKLEE (THA,1336) 61 75
[R1] (Q) Arjun KADHE (IND,UNR) bt Vivek SHOKEEN (IND,1221) 63 61
[R1] (2) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,473) bt (WC) Arun-Prakash RAJAGOPALAN (IND,1633) 61 64

Doubles
[R1] (1) Weerapat DOAKMAIKLEE (THA)/ Perakiat SIRILUETHAIWATTANA (THA) bt Aditya Hari SASONGKO (INA)/ Elbert SIE (INA) 62 63
[R1] Chih-Jen HO (TPE)/ Yang LU (CHN) bt Hyun-Woo NAM (KOR)/ Seong-Gook OH (KOR) W/O
[R1] (3) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND)/ N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND) bt Chandril SOOD (IND)/ Lakshit SOOD (IND) 46 64 10-7
[R1] Antoine ESCOFFIER (FRA)/ Bastien FAVIER (FRA) bt Kunal ANAND (IND)/ Ajai SELVARAJ (IND) 62 64
[R1] Tejas CHAUKULKAR (IND)/ Arjun KADHE (IND) bt Kuan-I LEE (TPE)/ Jui MAO (TPE) 64 36 10-7
[R1] (4) Kaza Vinayak SHARMA (IND)/ Ashwin VIJAYRAGAVAN (IND) bt Zach ITZSTEIN (AUS)/ Ronak MANUJA (IND) 62 64
[R1] Jeson PATROMBON (PHI)/ Chieh-Fu WANG (TPE) bt Fariz MOHAMMED (IND)/ Vignesh PERANAMALLUR (IND) 63 60
[R1] (2) Saketh MYNENI (IND)/ Arun-Prakash RAJAGOPALAN (IND) bt Sidharth RAWAT (IND)/ Rakshay THAKKAR (IND) 62 63

As expected Close match between Kaza and Ashwin ... Kaza scored victory in three sets ... Qualifier Ajai Selvaraj scored big upset win over winner of F10 futures and runner-up of last week's futures South Korean Suk in straight sets ... Also Arjun Kadhe earned his first ATP point with dominating win over Vivek Shokeen.

Interesting matches between Jeevan and Sidharth, Saketh and Kaza, and Ranjeet against Arjun in the second round.
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At $10K USA F22 Futures, Decatur, Illnois

[R1] Sanam Singh (IND,436) vs Sebastien Boltz (FRA,632)

This week Sanam is playing in another $10K USA futures ... He need to play bigger tournaments to make move.

Olympics News
At London Olympics 2012, England

Archery - Women's Recurve Team
[PQF] India l Denmark 210-211

Rowing
Men's Single Sculls - Repechages 1
1 Sawarn Singh 7:00.49

Men's Lightweight Double Sculls - Heat 1
4 Sandeep Kumar (IND)/ Manjeet Singh (IND) 6:56.60

Shooting - Women's 10m Air Pistol
12 Heena Sidhu (IND) (93 97 97 95) 382 pts
23 Annu Raj Singh (IND) (94 96 97 91) 378 pts

Table Tennis - Men's Singles
[R2] Soumyajit Ghosh (IND) l Hyok Bong Kim (PRK) 1-4 (11-9 6-11 5-11 9-11 7-11))

Badminton
Mixed Doubles - Group C
Diju V (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) l Thomas Laybourn (DEN)/ Kamilla Rytter Juhl (DEN) 12-21 16-21

Women's Singles - Group E
(4) Saina Nehwal (IND,5) bt Sabrina Jaquet (SUI,65) 21-9 21-4

Boxing - Men's Light (60kg)
[R1] Jai Bhagwan (IND) bt Andrique Allisop (SEY) 18-8

[R2] Jai Bhagwan (IND) vs Gani Zhailauov (KAZ)

Tennis
Men's singles
[R1] (WC) Somdev Devvarman (IND,418) l Jarkko Nieminen (FIN,41) 36 16

Our poor performance in archery continued ... Today our Women's Recurve Team struggled and lost by Danish team by 1 point ... We managed decent score in the final round but lead which Danish team take after two rounds was enough for them to upset higher ranked Indian women.

Sawarn Singh won the Repechages first heat and qualified for the quarter final after failing yesterday ... Sandeep Kumar and Manjeet Singh finished on 4th position in 1st heat of Men's Lightweight Double Sculls ... Now they will participate in Repechages.

Heena Sidhu's first bad round cost her place in the final in Women's 10m Air Pistol event ... She finished on 12th position missing final by 3 points ... Annu Raj Singh had poor last round which put her on 23rd position.

In his second round Soumyajit Ghosh started positively against his higer ranked North Korean opponent but after winning the first game he failed to overcome challenge from Kim ... Still encouraging performance by teenager.

Saina scored very dominating win over her Swiss opponent in 22 minutes ... After winning the first game in 12 minutes Saina overpowered Jaquet in the second game to win it in 10 minutes ... But Jwala and Diju lost their second match of the group against Danish WR #8 pair ... With this loss their chances of moving to knockout stage r almost zero.

Jai Bhagwan scored good win over young Seychelles boxer ... Jai won all three rounds with 7-3, 7-3 and 4-2 ... Next he is facing Kazakh boxer Gani Zhailauov.

Jarkko Nieminen dominated from the start and Sommy struggled on the grass ... After winning the first set Nieminen broke Sommy in 1st game of the second and Nieminen kept that tone to broke couple of time to win it comfortably ... Vishnu Vardhan received lucky break and he is playing in men's singles as alternate due to withdrawal against Blaz Kavcic.

Tennis News
At $75K+H Beijing Challenger, China

[Q1] Purav Raja (IND,1251) bt Kittipong Wachiramanowong (THA,583) 63 64

[Q2] Purav Raja (IND,1251) l (6) Matthew Barton (AUS,496) 36 75 26

[R1] Yuki BHambri (IND,211) vs Harri Heliovaara (FIN,243)

Doubles
[R1] (3) Purav Raja (IND)/ Harri Heliovaara (FIN) vs (WC) Xin Gao (CHN)/ Zhe Li (CHN)
[R1] (4) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs (WC) Yu Chang (CHN)/ Di Wu (CHN)

This week Purav played qualifying at Beijieng challenger and gave good performance ... In the first qualifying round he defeated top-600 Thai player and then gave decent fight to top-500 Aussie in the second.

Yuki is in bottom draw and facing Finland's Harri Heliovaara, who is Purav's doubles partner, in the first round ... In doubles our both pairs r facing local wild-card pairs in the first round.

Olympics News
At London Olympics 2012, England

Badminton
Mixed Doubles - Group C
Diju V (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) l (3) Tontowi Ahmad (INA)/ Liliyana Natsir (INA) 16-21 12-21

Men's Singles - Group D
Kashyap Parupalli (IND,21) bt Tan Yuhan (BEL,54) 21-14 21-12

Women's Doubles - Group B
Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) l (4) Mizuki Fujii (JPN)/ Reika Kakiiwa (JPN) 16-21 18-21

Archery - Men's Recurve Team
[PQF] India l Japan 214-214 (In shoot-off 27-29)

Table Tennis - Women's Singles
[R1] Ankita Das (IND) l Sara Ramirez (ESP) 1-4 (9-11 8-11 7-11 11-8 2-11)

Men's Singles
[R1] Soumyajit Ghosh (IND) bt Gustavo Tsuboi (BRA) 4-2 (11-9 14-12 7-11 12-10 5-11 12-10)

[R2] Soumyajit Ghosh (IND) vs Hyok Bong Kim (PRK)

Rowing - Men's Single Sculls - Heat 1
4 Sawarn Singh 6:54.04

Shooting - Men's 10m Air Pistol
31 Vijay Kumar (94 95 94 97 97 93) 570 pts

Boxing - Men's Bantam (56kg)
[R1] Sjiva Thapa (IND) l Oscar Valdez Fierro 14-7

Men's Middle (75kg)
[R1] Vijender (IND) bt Danabek Suzhanov (KAZ) 14-10

[R2] Vijender (IND) vs Terrell Gausha (USA)

Tennis - Women's Doubles
[R1] Sania Mirza (IND)/Rushmi Chakravarthi (IND) l Chia-jung Chuang (TPE)/ Su-wei Hsieh (TPE) 16 63 16

Weightlifting - Women's 48kg
7 Soniya Chanu Ngangbam (IND) (74+97) 171 kgs

In Men's Recurve Team pre-quarter final we r leading until 21 rows by 2 points (188-186) but Tarundeep managed only 8 on his final arrow and Japan caught with us, 214-214 ... In tie-break shoot-off 2 Japanese archers scored perfect 10 and our all 3 archers managed 9 points ... We missed big opportunity to move into quarters.

Diju and Jwala failed to produce much fight against WR #4 pair in their group match ... Kashyap started with confident win in his singles group match ... Jwala and Ashwini gave decent fight to Japanese WR #5 pair in their group match.

In Men's Single Sculls, Sawarn Singh finished on 4th position in heat 1 so he missed entry in the quarter final ... He will participate in Repechage round.

Ankita Das lost in the first round against her Spanish opponent ... But young Soumyajit Ghosh surprised everyone with upset win over Brazilian ... In this first round match Soumyajit won 3 sets in extra points and that helped him to win this match ... In the second round he is facing experienced North Korean.

In shooting Disappointing start as Vijay Kumar finished on 31st position in Men's 10m Air Pistol.

In weightlifting Soniya Chanu gave decent performance to finished on 7th position.

Bad start in the boxing, our youngest boxer Shiva Thapa lost his first round bout in Bantamweight ... He faced 21 yrs old Mexican Fierro ... First 2 rounds were very close one ... Fierro won the first round 4-2 and then Shiva won the second 4-3 ... In decider Fierro proved strong for Shiva when he won this round and the match.

Sania and Rushmi lost their first round match ... After losing thye first set Sania and Rushmi won the second ... Taipei pair was too strong for them in the final.

In Middleweight Vijender started with win ... He won closely fought bout against Kazakh boxer ... Vijender won all three rounds with 5-4 4-3 and 5-3 ... Next he is facing American Terrell Gausha.

Tennis News
At $125K Astana Challenger, Kazakhstan

[SF] (3) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) l Karol Beck (SVK)/ Kamil Capkovic (SVK) 46 46

Yuki failed to overcome Beck's challenge in the doubles also ... He lost in the straight set partnering Divij against Slovak pair Beck and Capkovic.
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At $10K India F11 Futures, Chennai

Singles Final
(2) Saketh MYNENI (IND,507) bt (4) Suk Young JEONG (KOR,688) 63 26 64

This week Saketh lifted his third $10K ITF futures title ... His all 3 titles in India, two in Chennai and one in Mandya.

In the final he defeated last week's winner Korean Suk Young Jeong in three sets ... After winning the first set Saketh lost momentum in the second and lost it with double break ... In the final set Saketh broke Suk in the first game and kept that advantage to win this match and title.

Olympics News
At London Olympics 2012, England

Men's Individual Qualification Results
31 Tarundeep Rai (IND) 664
46 Rahul Banerjee (IND) 655
51 Jayanta Talukdar (IND) 650

Men's Team Qualification Results
1 Korea 2087
2 France 2021
3 PR China 2019
4 USA 2019
5 Japan 2009
6 Italy 1998
7 Mexico 1996
8 Great Britain 1994
9 Ukraine 1992
10 Malaysia 1981
11 Chinese Taipei 1972
12 India 1969

Women's Individual Qualification Results
8 Deepika Kumari (IND) 662
22 Bombayla Devi Laishram (IND) 651
50 Chekrovolu Swuro (IND) 625

Women's Team Qualification Results
1 Korea 1993
2 USA 1979
3 Chinese Taipei 1976
4 Mexico 1974
5 Japan 1965
6 Russia 1962
7 PR China 1946
8 Denmark 1946
9 India 1938
10 Italy 1937
11 Great Britain 1874
12 Ukraine 1868

Our men had a poor outing ... Our all 3 men archers struggled in windy condition and qualified on 31st, 46th and 51st positions ... Our team ended on the last place in team qualification so for place for quarterfinal in team event we will play against Japan ... Then current WR #1 USA is waiting for the winner in quarter-final.

And our women also struggled in British condition ... Deepika qualified on 8th position and Bombayla Devi managed to finish on 22nd but Chekrovolu Swuro struggled to finish on 50th position ... That poor score pushed us down to finish on 9th position ... In pre-quarter final we r facing Denmark but then in the quarter final WR #1 Korea is waiting for the winner ... Tough match up for us.

Tennis News
At $125K Astana Challenger, Kazakhstan

[QF] (7) Yuki Bhambri (IND,211) l (2) Karol Beck (SVK,126) 26 67(3)

Doubles
[SF] (3) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs Karol Beck (SVK)/ Kamil Capkovic (SVK)

After losing the first set easily Yuki fought well against Beck ... Beck broke him in 5th game but Yuki broke back in the next game to make it 3-all ... Yuki played some beautiful shots and was matching Beck after that ... In tie-break Yuki made few errors from backhands but match was stopped when he was 3 match points down due to rain ... Beck won the first point after resumption to complete the victory.
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At $10K India F11 Futures, Chennai

[SF] (4) Suk Young JEONG (KOR,688) bt (7) Hyun-Woo NAM (KOR,771) 64 64
[SF] (2) Saketh MYNENI (IND,507) bt (8) Karunduay SINGH (IND,823) 61 63

Doubles Final
(1) Weerapat DOAKMAIKLEE (THA)/ Perakiat SIRILUETHAIWATTANA (THA) bt (2) Saketh MYNENI (IND)/ Arun-Prakash RAJAGOPALAN (IND) 64 26 10-7

Comfortable win for Saketh against Karunuday ... In the final he is facing last week's winner 4th seed Korean Suk.

In doubles final Saketh and Arun Prakash lost against top-seed Thai pair in match tie-break.

Olympics News
At London Olympics 2012, England

[R1] (WC) Somdev Devvarman (IND,418) vs Jarkko Nieminen (FIN,41)

Men's Doubles
[R1] (7) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) vs Max Mirnyi (BLR)/ Alexander Bury (BLR)
[R1] Leander Paes (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) vs Robin Haase (NED)/ Jean-Julien Rojer (NED)

Women's Doubles
[R1] (WC) Sania Mirza (IND)/Rushmi Chakravarthi (IND) vs Chia-jung Chuang (TPE)/ Su-wei Hsieh (TPE)

Vishnu need to calm his nerves and rise to the occasion for helping Lee to win their match against Dutch pair ... Rohan and Mahesh r favorite in their first round match though they r facing Max Mirnyi as his partner is very lowly ranked ... In the men's singles and women's doubles we r having almost no chance as Som is playing his first competitive match after 9 months and Taipei pair is lot better than pairing of Sania and Rushmi.

Som is in Andy's draw and if wins his first round then can face winner between Andy Murray and Wawrinka ... Lee and Vishnu can face 2nd seed French pair Michael Llodra and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the second round ... Rohan and Mahesh can face tricky second round against winner between British pair Fleming/Hutchins and French pair Benneteau/Gasquet.

Tennis News
At $125K Astana Challenger, Kazakhstan

[QF] (3) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) bt Marsel Ilhan (TUR)/Denis Matsukevitch (RUS) 64 64

Yuki and Divij enter into the semis with straight sets victory over Ilhan and Matsukevitch.
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At $50K Wuhan Challenger, China

[QF] (3) Purav Raja (IND)/ Laurent Rochette (FRA) l Adam Feeney (AUS)/ Samuel Groth (AUS) 16 26

One sided loss against Aussie pair for third seed Purav and Frenchman Laurent.
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At $10K India F11 Futures, Chennai

[QF] (7) Hyun-Woo NAM (KOR,771) bt (1) Ranjit VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,473) 63 61
[QF] (4) Suk Young JEONG (KOR,688) bt (6) Chieh-Fu WANG (TPE,759) 62 76(7)
[QF] (8) Karunduay SINGH (IND,823) bt (3) Antoine ESCOFFIER (FRA,566) 76(4) 62
[QF] (2) Saketh MYNENI (IND,507) bt (5) N Vijay Sunder PRASHANTH (IND,755) 61 75

Doubles
[SF] (1) Weerapat DOAKMAIKLEE (THA)/ Perakiat SIRILUETHAIWATTANA (THA) bt Kaza Vinayak SHARMA (IND)/ Sudanwa SITARAM (IND) 75 63
[SF] (2) Saketh MYNENI (IND)/ Arun-Prakash RAJAGOPALAN (IND) bt (3) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND)/ Ashwin VIJAYRAGAVAN (IND) 57 76(4) 10-6

Karunuday scored excellent win over 3rd seed Frenchman in the straight sets but top-seed Ranjit lost easily against 800-around Korean ... Saketh also scored solid win against Vijay Sundar.
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At $10K Turkey F29 Futures, Izmir

[R2] Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND,1042) l (1) Kristijan MESAROS (CRO,523) 36 Retd.

After losing the first set Ramkumar retired from his match ... He was playing 4th week in a row, hoping for nothing serious injury.

Tennis News
At $125K Astana Challenger, Kazakhstan

[R2] (7) Yuki Bhambri (IND,211) bt Farrukh Dustov (UZB,229) 63 75

[QF] (7) Yuki Bhambri (IND,211) vs (2) Karol Beck (SVK,126)

Yuki broke Farrukh in 6th game to win the first set without facing a single break point ... In the second set Yuki saved 3 break points and take crucial break in 11th game to won this match in the straight sets ... In this match Yuki played excellent all court game with smart serving ... Really good confidence boosting win for Yuki as he lost against Farrukh in Davis cup tie in March ... Next he is facing 2nd seed very experienced Slovak Karol Beck.
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At $10K India F11 Futures, Chennai

[R2] (1) Ranjit VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,473)bt Elbert SIE (INA,868) 61 62
[R2] (7) Hyun-Woo NAM (KOR,771) bt (Q) Bastien FAVIER (FRA,1774) 64 67(5) 64
[R2] (4) Suk Young JEONG (KOR,688) bt (Q) Chandril SOOD (IND,1707) 60 62
[R2] (6) Chieh-Fu WANG (TPE,759) bt Kaza Vinayak SHARMA (IND,936) 63 63
[R2] (8) Karunduay SINGH (IND,823) bt Jeson PATROMBON (PHI,881) 62 62
[R2] (3) Antoine ESCOFFIER (FRA,566) bt Yang LU (CHN,1215) 63 62
[R2] (5) N Vijay Sunder PRASHANTH (IND,755) bt (Q) Weerapat DOAKMAIKLEE (THA,1320) 61 61
[R2] (2) Saketh MYNENI (IND,507) bt (WC) Sudanwa SITARAM (IND,1522) 63 62

Doubles
[QF] (1) Weerapat DOAKMAIKLEE (THA)/ Perakiat SIRILUETHAIWATTANA (THA) bt Hyun-Woo NAM (KOR)/ Jae-Min SEOL (KOR) w/o
[QF] Kaza Vinayak SHARMA (IND)/ Sudanwa SITARAM (IND) bt Antoine ESCOFFIER (FRA)/ Bastien FAVIER (FRA) 60 76(3)
[QF] (3) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND)/ Ashwin VIJAYRAGAVAN (IND) bt (WC) Arjun KADHE (IND)/ Jeson PATROMBON (PHI) 63 62
[QF] (2) Saketh MYNENI (IND)/ Arun-Prakash RAJAGOPALAN (IND) bt Chih-Jen HO (TPE)/ Rakshay THAKKAR (IND) 60 63

All seeded players scored very comfortable wins.
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At $10K Turkey F29 Futures, Izmir

[R1] Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND,1042) bt Brian GROOMS (USA,1409) 60 76(4)

[R2] Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND,1042) vs (1) Kristijan MESAROS (CRO,523)

Expected winning start for Ramkumar but his next match is against top-seed Croatian.

Tennis News
At $125K Astana Challenger, Kazakhstan

[R1] (7) Yuki Bhambri (IND,211) bt Serizhan Yessenbekov (KAZ,1359) 60 62

[R2] (7) Yuki Bhambri (IND,211) Vs Farrukh Dustov (UZB,229)

Yuki scored very dominating win against local wild-card pair inside an hour ... Yuki dominated in all stats ... Very good moral boosting win for Yuki.
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At $50K Wuhan Challenger, China

[R1] Vijayant Malik (IND,465) l (5) Ze Zhang (CHN,181) 36 63 26
[R1] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,397) l Benjamin Balleret (MON,403) 36 06

Doubles
[R1] (3) Purav Raja (IND)/ Laurent Rochette (FRA) bt Peng Gao (CHN)/ Wan Gao (CHN) 64 75

Very disappointing performance by Jeevan ... From 3-4 he lost next 8 games in a row against similar ranked opponent ... Other hand Vijayant gave decent fighting performance against local top-200 player ... After losing the first set he fought back to win the second but in the final set Zhang broke him twice to win this set comfortably ... With this disappointed end of Chinese challengers tour for Jeevan and Vijayant, who failed to win a single match in two weeks.

Purav and his French partner scored good fighting win over Chinese top pair in straight sets.

Badminton News
At London Olympics 2012, England

London 2012 Olympic Games Badminton Draw

Men's Singles

Group D
(10) Nguyen Tien Minh (VIE,11)
Kashyap Parupalli (IND,21)
Tan Yuhan (BEL,54)

Women's Singles

Group E
(4) Saina Nehwal (IND,5)
Lianne Tan (BEL,55)
Sabrina Jaquet (SUI,65)

Women's Doubles

Group B
(4) Mizuki Fujii (JPN)/ Reika Kakiiwa (JPN) (#5)
Cheng Wen Hsing (TPE)/ Chien Yu Chin (TPE) (#10)
Shinta Sari Mulia (SIN)/ Yao Lei (SIN) (#13)
Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) (#20)

Mixed Doubles

Group C
(3) Tontowi Ahmad (INA)/ Liliyana Natsir (INA) (#4)
Thomas Laybourn (DEN)/ Kamilla Rytter Juhl (DEN) (#8)
Lee Yong Dae (KOR)/ Ha Jung Eun (KOR) (#9)
Viju D (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) (#13)

In the singles, only the winner of each group will qualify for the Round of 16 - [A vs B, C vs D] [E vs F, G vs H] [I vs J, K vs L] [M vs N, O vs P].

In the doubles, the top two of each group will qualify for the quarter-finals. [A1 vs C2, B1 vs D2] [A2 vs C1, B2 vs D1].

In the singles Saina is favorite in her group and Kashyap is also having favorable draw ... But in doubles and mixed doubles our pair having tough draw ... In mixed doubles Diju and Jwala r facing three top 10 pairs ... In doubles Jwala and Ashwini r facing two top 10 pairs.

Saina is in the top draw with WR #1 Yihan Wang ... In knockout stage she can face experienced Dutch player #20 Yao Jie in R16 ... If she wins this they she can face her first tricky test in the quarter-final against another experienced player Danish #7 Tine Baun.

Tennis News
At $125K Astana Challenger, Kazakhstan

[R1] (7) Yuki Bhambri (IND,211) vs (WC) Serizhan Yessenbekov (KAZ,1359)

Doubles
[R1] (3) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) bt Egor Gerasimov (BLR)/ Denis Yevseyev (KAZ) 64 76(2)

Good chance for Yuki to earn few more important ranking points ... This week he is at a career-high ranking of #211 in singles and #271 in doubles.

In doubles Yuki and Divij had a winning start in two tight sets.
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At $50K Wuhan Challenger, China

[R1] Vijayant Malik (IND,465) vs (5) Ze Zhang (CHN,)
[R1] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,397) vs Benjamin Balleret (MON,403)

Doubles
[R1] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Mohamed Safwat (EGY) bt Benjamin Balleret (MON)/ Pierre-Hugues Herbert (FRA) 61 63
[R1] (3) Purav Raja (IND)/ Laurent Rochette (FRA) vs Peng Gao (CHN)/ Wan Gao (CHN)

Hoping for revenge from Jeevan in the singles against Benjamin Balleret.
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At $10K India F11 Futures, Chennai

[R1] (1) Ranjit VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,473) bt Perakiat SIRILUETHAIWATTANA (THA,931) 75 63
[R1] Elbert SIE (INA,868) bt (Q) Lakshit SOOD (IND,UNR) 60 60
[R1] (Q) Bastien FAVIER (FRA,1774) bt (WC) Rishabdev RAMAN (IND,UNR) 63 64
[R1] (7) Hyun-Woo NAM (KOR,771) bt Chih-Jen HO (TPE,1195) 61 61
[R1] (4) Suk Young JEONG (KOR,688) bt (Q) Kunal ANAND (IND,1344) 61 60
[R1] (Q) Chandril SOOD (IND,1707) bt (Q) Tejas CHAUKULKAR (IND,1707) 62 63
[R1] Kaza Vinayak SHARMA (IND,936) bt Ajai SELVARAJ (IND,1300) 62 64
[R1] (6) Chieh-Fu WANG (TPE,759) bt Abhijeet TIWARI (IND,1232) 46 63 62
[R1] (8) Karunduay SINGH (IND,823) bt Zach ITZSTEIN (AUS,932) 64 67(6) 75
[R1] Jeson PATROMBON (PHI,881) bt (WC) Aditya Hari SASONGKO (INA,1471) 60 46 75
[R1] Yang LU (CHN,1215) bt Austin KAROSI (USA,1266) 62 61
[R1] (3) Antoine ESCOFFIER (FRA,566) bt (WC) Arjun KADHE (IND,UNR) 63 63
[R1] (5) N Vijay Sunder PRASHANTH (IND,755) bt Ashwin VIJAYRAGAVAN (IND,854) 76(1) 57 62
[R1] (Q) Weerapat DOAKMAIKLEE (THA,1320) bt Vivek SHOKEEN (IND,1212) 64 76(6)
[R1] (WC) Sudanwa SITARAM (IND,1522) bt Sidharth RAWAT (IND,952) 61 76(4)
[R1] (2) Saketh MYNENI (IND,507) bt (Q) Ronit Singh BISHT (IND,UNR) 61 61

Doubles
[R1] (1) Weerapat DOAKMAIKLEE (THA)/ Perakiat SIRILUETHAIWATTANA (THA) bt Fei Yun LIAO (TPE)/ Chieh-Fu WANG (TPE) 75 75
[R1] Hyun-Woo NAM (KOR)/ Jae-Min SEOL (KOR) bt Zach ITZSTEIN (AUS)/ Ronak MANUJA (IND) 61 64
[R1] Kaza Vinayak SHARMA (IND)/ Sudanwa SITARAM (IND) bt (4) Aditya Hari SASONGKO (INA)/ Elbert SIE (INA) 76(4) 60
[R1] Antoine ESCOFFIER (FRA)/ Bastien FAVIER (FRA) bt Suk-Young JEONG (KOR)/ Seong-Gook OH (KOR) 75 62
[R1] (WC) Arjun KADHE (IND)/ Jeson PATROMBON (PHI) bt Kunal ANAND (IND)/ Ajai SELVARAJ (IND) 62 26 10-4
[R1] (3) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND)/ Ashwin VIJAYRAGAVAN (IND) bt Vivek SHOKEEN (IND)/ Abhijeet TIWARI (IND) 63 62
[R1] Chih-Jen HO (TPE)/ Rakshay THAKKAR (IND) bt (WC) Ronit Singh BISHT (IND)/ Saurabh SINGH (IND) 62 75
[R1] (2) Saketh MYNENI (IND)/ Arun-Prakash RAJAGOPALAN (IND) bt (WC) Elwin ANTONY (IND)/ Fariz MOHAMMED (IND) 64 64

Sudanwa Sitaram scored big upset win over in-form Sidharth in the straight sets ... In doubles wild-card pairing of Arjun Kadhe with his Filipino partner started with upset win.
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At $10K Turkey F29 Futures, Izmir

[R1] Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND,1042) vs Brian GROOMS (USA,1409)

This week Ramkumar is not in the doubles draw ... In the singles he is having winnable first round match.

Olympics News
At London Olympics 2012, England

Archery
Women`s Individual Event (3) - Laishram Bombayla Devi, Deepika Kumari, Chekrovolu Swuro
Women`s Recurve Team Event (1) - Laishram Bombayla Devi, Deepika Kumari and Chekrovolu Swuro
Men`s Individual event (3) - Jayanta Talukdar, Rahul Banerjee, Tarundeep Rai
Men’s Recurve Team event (1) - Jayanta Talukdar, Rahul Banerjee, Tarundeep Rai

Athletics
Men`s 50 km Race Walk - Basanta Bahadur Rana
Men`s 20 km Race Walk - Gurmeet Singh, Baljinder Singh
Men`s Marathon - Ram Singh Yadav
Women`s Discus Throw - Krishna Poonia, Seema Antil
Men`s Discus Throw -Vikas Gowda
Men`s Shot Put - Om Prakash Karhana
Women`s 800m - Tintu Luka
Men`s Triple Jump - Renjith Maheshwary
Women`s Triple Jump - Mayookha Johny
Women’s 3000 m Steeplechase - Sudha Singh
Women’s High Jump - Sahana Kumari

Badminton
Women`s Singles - Saina Nehwal
Men`s Singles - Parupalli Kashyap
Mixed Doubles - Jwala Gutta, Valiyaveetil Diju
Women`s Doubles - Jwala Gutta, Ashwini Ponnappa

Boxing
Men`s Light Flyweight (49 Kg) - Devendro Singh
Men`s Bantamweight (56 Kg) - Shiva Thapa
Men`s Lightweight (60 Kg) - Jai Bhagwan
Men`s Light Welterweight (64 Kg) - Manoj Kumar
Men`s Welterweight (69 Kg) - Vikas Krishan Yadav
Men`s Middleweight (75 Kg) - Vijender Singh
Men`s Light Heavyweight (81 kg) - Sumit Sangwan
Women's Boxing (51 Kg)- MC Mary Kom

Judo
Women`s 63 kg - Garima Chaudhary

Rowing
Single Sculls - Swarn Singh Virk
Lightweight Double Sculls - Sandeep Kumar, Manjeet Singh

Shooting
Men`s 10 m Air Rifle - Abhinav Bindra, Gagan Narang
Men`s 50 m Rifle 3 Position - Sanjeev Rajput, Gagan Narang
Men`s 50 m Rifle Prone - Joydeep Karmakar
Men`s 25 m Rapid Fire Pistol - Vijay Kumar
Men`s Trap - Manavjit Singh Sandhu
Men`s Double Trap - Ronjan Sodhi
Women`s 25 m Pistol - Rahi Sarnobat, Heena Sidhu
Women`s 10 m Air Pistol - Annuraj Singh
Women`s Trap - Shagun Chowdhury

Swimming
Men`s 1500 m Freestyle - Gagan AP Ulalmath

Table Tennis
Men`s Singles - Soumyajit Ghosh
Women`s singles - Ankita Das

Lawn Tennis
Men`s Singles - Somdev Devvarman
Men`s Doubles - Mahesh Bhupathi, Rohan Bopanna
Men`s Doubles - Leander Paes, Vishnu Vardhan
Women’s Doubles - Rushmi Chakravarthi, Sania Mirza
Mixed Doubles - Leander Paes, Sania Mirza

Weightlifting
Men`s 69 kg - Katulu Ravi Kumar
Women`s 48 kg - Ngangbam Soniya Chanu

Wrestling
Men’s 55 kg - Amit Kumar
Men’s 60 kg - Yogeshwar Dutt
Men’s 66 kg - Sushil Kumar
Men’s 74 kg – Narsingh Pancham Yadav
Women’s 55 kg - Geeta Phogat

Field hockey (18 members)
Goalkeepers - Bharat Chetri (Capt), PR Sreejesh
Defenders - VR Raghunath, Ignace Tirkey, Sandeep Singh
Midfielders - Sardar Singh (Vice Capt), Gurbaj Singh, Birendra Lakra, Manpreet Singh
Forwards - SV Sunil, Gurwinder Singh Chandi, Shivendra Singh, Danish Mujtaba, Tushar Khandker, Dharamvir Singh, SK Uthappa

This time India is sending their biggest ever contingent of 81 athletes to the Olympics ... I m really hoping that we will better our the Beijing Olympics medal haul of 3 medals (1 Gold and 2 Bronze) ... As per my calculation we r having chance of winning minimum 6 medals (and optimistic view is 10 medals) -
Archery 1 (here we can surprise to win couple of more considering our performance in World cups but realistically we should win at least 1 medal)
Boxing 2 minimum (we r having chance of winning more medals if our boxers get favorable draw but hoping at least 1 medal from men's and 1 from Mary Kom)
Shooting 1 (here also we r having good opportunity of winning more medals ... Abhinav Bindra is the best bet but we should not forget our other shooters like Gagan Narang, Ronjan Sodhi and Manavjit Singh Sandhu)
Wrestling 1 (here also Sushil Kumar is the best bet as he knows what require to win the medal in this mega event but with good draw young Amit Kumar can give us pleasant surprise)
Badminton/Tennis 1 (at least 1 but Saina having good draw to win her first Olympics medal ... In tennis, mixed doubles pair having realistic chance with little luck in a draw)

Golf News
At The 141st Open Championship, Royal Lytham & St Annes

Final Standing
T31 Anirban Lahiri (IND) 68 72 70 73 +3
T69 Jeev Milkha Singh (IND) 70 71 76 73 +10

Anirban Lahiri had remarkable debut at the Open ... He made a cut and finished on the creditable T31 position but he would managed PAR in the final round then he would have finished inside top-10 ... In the second time Jeev managed to avoid cut but ended on disappointing T69 with 10+.

Tennis News
At $10K USA F20 Futures, Joplin, USA

[SF} (1) Sanam Singh (IND,429) l (4) Darian King (BAR,717) 06 67(5)

Very disappointed loss for Sanam against 700+ ranked player ... In the first set Sanam failed to win a single game though he managed to took the second set in tie-break ... Still it was poor performance from Sanam.
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At $10K Turkey F28 Futures, Izmir (clay)

Doubles Final
Kirill DMITRIEV (RUS)/ Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND) bt Julien DEMOIS (FRA)/ Yanais LAURENT (FRA) 62 62

Ramkumar managed to win his second doubles title, this time with Russian Kirill Dmitriev ... They scored very dominating win over French pair in one-sided match.
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At $10K India F10 Futures, Coimbatore

[F] (4) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,753) l (3) Suk-Young JEONG (KOR,680) 26 57

Third seed Korean Jeong defeated Vijay Sundar to lift title at F10 Indian futures.

Tennis News
At $10K USA F20 Futures, Joplin, USA

[QF] (1) Sanam Singh (IND,429) bt Kyle McMorrow (USA,1447) 75 36 63

[SF} (1) Sanam Singh (IND,429) vs (4) Darian King (BAR,717)

Sanam stretched to three sets against his American opponent ... Sanam need to keep focus to win these lower level matches ... Next he is facing 4th seed Barbados player.
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At $10K Turkey F28 Futures, Izmir

[SF] Kirill DMITRIEV (RUS)/ Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND) bt Salvatore CARUSO (ITA)/ Omar GIACALONE (ITA) 36 76(3) 11-9

[F] Kirill DMITRIEV (RUS)/ Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND) vs Julien DEMOIS (FRA)/ Yanais LAURENT (FRA)

Ramkumar and his Russian scored excellent hard fought comeback win over Italian pair ... After losing the first set they needed tie-break to win the second and managed to win match tie-break on extra points ... In the final they r facing French pair.

Tennis News
At €1M bet-at-home Open German Tennis Championships, Hamburg, Germany

[QF] (1) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) l Jeremy Chardy (FRA)/ Giles Simon (FRA) 75 36 7-10

Indian top-seed pair failed to keep momentum after winning the first set ... French pair take advantage to win the second and then won the match tie-break.
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At $50K Penza Challenger, Russia

Doubles Final
(1) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) l (2) Konstantin Kravchuk (RUS)/ Nikolaus Moser (AUT) 76(5) 36 7-10

Yuki and Divij failed to lifte their second title as pair when they lost against 2nd seed pair in the match tie-break ... Yuki and Divij won the first set in tie-break but the second seed pair proved strong for Indian pair in the second and kept their momentum to win the match tie-break.
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At $10K India F10 Futures, Coimbatore

[SF] (4) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,753) bt (6) Karunuday SINGH (IND,816) 64 36 62
[SF] (2) Saketh MYNENI (IND,503) l (3) Suk-Young JEONG (KOR,680) 63 46 0-1 Retd.

Doubles Final
(1) Saketh MYNENI (IND)/ Arun-Prakash RAJAGOPALAN (IND) bt (2) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND)/ Kaza Vinayak SHARMA (IND) 63 62

Good win by Vijay Sundar over Karunuday but Saketh retired from his match against Korean in the third set ... Saketh need to work on his fitness.

But Saketh played doubles with Arun-Prakash to lift doubles title.
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At $10K USA F20 Futures, Joplin, USA

[R2] (1) Sanam Singh (IND,429) bt Eric Quigley (USA,1778) 62 76(5)

[QF] (1) Sanam Singh (IND,429) vs Kyle McMorrow (USA,1447)

Good win by Sanam over this year's NCAA runner up and NCAA #3 ranked Eric Quigley ... So suppose to be top-500 win for Sanam.
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At $10K Turkey F28 Futures, Izmir

[R2] Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND,1042) l (2) Edoardo EREMIN (ITA,529) 36 06

Doubles
[QF] Kirill DMITRIEV (RUS)/ Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND) bt (4) Alexander LAZOV (BUL)/ Ergun ZORLU (TUR) 57 64 10-7

[SF] Kirill DMITRIEV (RUS)/ Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND) vs Salvatore CARUSO (ITA)/ Omar GIACALONE (ITA)

Ramkumar and his Russian partner scored upset win over 4th seed in the quarters.

Tennis News
At $50K Penza Challenger, Russia

[QF] (4) Yuki Bhambri (IND,218) l (7) Evgeny Kirillov (RUS,289) 63 16 36

Doubles
[SF] (1) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) bt (4) Evgeny Donskoy (RUS)/ Evgeny Kirillov (RUS) 63 67(5) 10-8

After winning the first set Yuki lost momentum and more consistent Kirillov managed to put pressure on Yuki's serve ... Yuki crumbled under that pressure and struggled in the later part of the match ... So with this Yuki missed opportunity of moving into top-200 this week.

In doubles our pair was early break down but came back strongly to won that ... Again our pair failed to keep momentum and lost the second set in tie-break ... In match tie-break both pairs played consisting game but this time our pair won important points to book their place in the final.
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At $50K An-Ning Challenger, China (clay)

[R1] Vijayant Malik (IND)/ Mohamed Safwat (EGY) l (1) Sanchai Ratiwatana (THA)/ Sonchat Ratiwatana (THA) 67(7) 36

Vijayant lost against top-seed Ratiwatanas with his Egyptian partner.
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At $10K India F10 Futures, Coimbatore

[QF] (6) Karunuday SINGH (IND,816) bt (1) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,477) 61 64
[QF] (4) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,753) bt (8) Zach ITZSTEIN (AUS,924) 62 64
[QF] (3) Suk-Young JEONG (KOR,680) bt (7) Ashwin VIJAYRAGAVAN (IND,851) 62 64
[QF] (2) Saketh MYNENI (IND,503) bt (Q) Jae-Min SEOL (KOR,1420) 36 76(4) 64

Doubles
[SF] (1) Saketh MYNENI (IND)/ Arun-Prakash RAJAGOPALAN (IND) bt Suk-Young JEONG (KOR)/ Seong-Gook OH (KOR) 64 62
[SF] (2) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND)/ Kaza Vinayak SHARMA (IND) bt Vivek SHOKEEN (IND)/ Sudanwa SITARAM (IND) 67(4) 75 12-10

Karunuday scored dominating upset win over top-seed Ranjeet ... Vijay Sundar also joined him in the semis with comfortable win but Saketh needed to fight hard against Korean qualifier ... After losing the first set Saketh won the second set in tie-break before winning the decider.

Tennis News
At €1M bet-at-home Open German Tennis Championships, Hamburg, Germany

[R1] (1) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) bt Bruno Soares (BRA)/ Alexander Waske (GER) 63 76(4)

[QF] (1) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) vs Jeremy Chardy (FRA)/ Giles Simon (FRA)

After winning the first set with a single break our pair completed win in the second set tie-break after rain interruption at 5-all ... Next they r facing French pair in the quarters.
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At $50K Penza Challenger, Russia

[R2] (4) Yuki Bhambri (IND,218) bt James McGee (IRL,356) 62 61

[QF] (4) Yuki Bhambri (IND,218) vs (7) Evgeny Kirillov (RUS,289)

Doubles
[QF] (1) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) bt Aslan Kartesev (RUS)/ Richard Muzaev (RUS) 76(2) 62

[SF] (1) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs (4) Evgeny Donskoy (RUS)/ Evgeny Kirillov (RUS)

Yuki scored solid win against decent Irish player ... In this match Yuki faced only one break point on his serve which he saved it .. Other hand he had 13 break points on McGee's serve and converted 4 of them ... Next he is facing experienced Russian player to place in the semis.

Our pair saved couple of break points before holding the serve in 11th game before this both pairs traded breaks ... In tie-break our pair take early mini-break and build on it to won it comfortably ... In the second set our pair take control with early double break ... While serving for the match they saved couple of break points before holding the serve ... So top-seed pair in the semis.
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At $50K An-Ning Challenger, China (clay)

[R1] Vijayant Malik (IND,462) l Kento Takeuchi (JPN,479) 67(3) 46
[R1] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,397) l (2) Grega Zemlja (SLO,123) 36 26

Doubles
[R1] Vijayant Malik (IND)/ Mohamed Safwat (EGY) vs (1) Sanchai Ratiwatana (THA)/ Sonchat Ratiwatana (THA)

Until 3-all in the first set Jeevan was matching Zemlja's game but after that Zemlja won 9 games from last 11 games ... Vijayant was break down in the both set ... Then he fought back to break back but failed to keep momentum against his Japanese opponent.
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At $10K India F10 Futures, Coimbatore

[R2] (1) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,477) bt Yang LU (CHN,1214) 61 60
[R2] (6) Karunuday SINGH (IND,816) bt Vivek SHOKEEN (IND,1211) 76(2) 75
[R2] (4) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,753) bt (LL) Tejas CHAUKULKAR (IND,1709) 60 61
[R2] (8) Zach ITZSTEIN (AUS,924) bt Ajai SELVARAJ (IND,1298) 63 63
[R2] (7) Ashwin VIJAYRAGAVAN (IND,851) bt Sudanwa SITARAM (IND,1522) 16 76(4) 61
[R2] (3) Suk-Young JEONG (KOR,680) btAbhijeet TIWARI (IND,1228) 61 61
[R2] (Q) Jae-Min SEOL (KOR,1420) bt (5) Hyun-Woo NAM (KOR,771) 62 62
[R2] (2) Saketh MYNENI (IND,503) bt (WC) Vigneshwaran RAMESH (IND,UNR) 61 60

Doubles
[QF] (1) Saketh MYNENI (IND)/ Arun-Prakash RAJAGOPALAN (IND) bt Hyun-Woo NAM (KOR)/ Jae-Min SEOL (KOR) 62 63
[QF] Suk-Young JEONG (KOR)/ Seong-Gook OH (KOR) bt (3) Abhijeet TIWARI (IND)/ Ashwin VIJAYRAGAVAN (IND) 76(2) 61
[QF] Vivek SHOKEEN (IND)/ Sudanwa SITARAM (IND) bt (4) Kunal ANAND (IND)/ Ajai SELVARAJ (IND) 36 75 10-4
[QF] (2) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND)/ Kaza Vinayak SHARMA (IND) bt Elwin ANTONY (IND)/ Fariz MOHAMMED (IND) 64 61

Sudanwa stretched Ashwin to 3 sets ... Karunuday faced another tough challenge before winning against Vivek ... Happy to seed our all seeded players r in the quarters.

Tennis News
At $50K Penza Challenger, Russia

[R1] (1) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) bt Victor Baluda (RUS)/ Oleksandr Nedovyesov (UKR) 63 36 10-8

Very rocky performance by top-seed Indian pair ... After winning the first set they struggled against Eastern European pair ... In match tie-break also they needed couple of match point from 9-6 to complete the victory.
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At $10K USA F20 Futures, Joplin, USA

[R1] (1) Sanam Singh (IND,429) bt (WC) Nick Papac (USA,UNR) 63 60

[R2] (1) Sanam Singh (IND,429) vs Eric Quigley (USA,1778)

Expected comfortable win for Sanam against unranked wild-card local player.
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At $10K Turkey F28 Futures, Izmir

[R1] Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND,1042) bt (Q) Ercole DI IANNI (ITA,UNR) 76(4) 63

[R2] Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND,1042) vs (2) Edoardo EREMIN (ITA,529)

Doubles
[R1] Kirill DMITRIEV (RUS)/ Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND) bt Haluk AKKOYUN (TUR)/ Barkin YALCINKALE (TUR) 61 62

[QF] Kirill DMITRIEV (RUS)/ Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND) vs (4) Alexander LAZOV (BUL)/ Ergun ZORLU (TUR)

Ramkumar keep playing Turkey futures despite Indian futures ... He started with win against Italian qualifier but next facing 2nd seed Italian in the second round.

Tennis News
At $740K Mercury Insurance Open, Carlsbad, USA

[R1] Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA)/ Sania Mirza (IND) l Hao-Ching Chan (TPE)/ Yung-Jan Chan (TPE) 75 46 5-10

Taipei pair take early lead breaking Sania in 5th game but Sania and Bethanie came back strongly winning 4 games from 3-5 to won this set ... In the second set Taipei pair take crucial break in 7th game and hold their service games to won it ... In match tie-break Taipei pair was better and won this comfortably.
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At $50K Penza Challenger, Russia

[R1] (4) Yuki Bhambri (IND,220) bt Divij Sharan (IND,1066) 62 63

[R2] (4) Yuki Bhambri (IND,220) vs James McGee (IRL,356)

Expected easy win for Yuki but Divij managed to break him 3 times in this match ... Yuki need to work on his serve to show more consistency in his result ... Next Yuki is facing Irish player.
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At $10K India F10 Futures, Coimbatore

[R1] (1) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,477) bt (Q) Shantanu RAJPUT (IND,UNR) 62 61
[R1] Yang LU (CHN,1214) bt (WC) Jatin DAHIYA (IND,1522) 64 60
[R1] Vivek SHOKEEN (IND,1211) bt Austin KAROSI (USA,1262) 76(6) 63
[R1] (6) Karunuday SINGH (IND,816) bt Sidharth RAWAT (IND,946) 76(3) 67(3) 75
[R1] (4) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,753) bt Kaza Vinayak SHARMA (IND,927) 61 67(6) 64
[R1] (LL) Tejas CHAUKULKAR (IND,1709) bt (WC) Rajat MAHESHWARI (IND,1620) 76(4) 76(5)
[R1] Ajai SELVARAJ (IND,1298) bt (Q) Rishabdev RAMAN (IND,UNR) 62 62
[R1] (8) Zach ITZSTEIN (AUS,924) bt (Q) Aaditya TEWARI (IND,UNR) 64 63
[R1] (7) Ashwin VIJAYRAGAVAN (IND,851) bt Kunal ANAND (IND,1347) 61 64
[R1] Sudanwa SITARAM (IND,1522) bt Elwin ANTONY (IND,1490) 64 63
[R1] Abhijeet TIWARI (IND,1228) bt (Q) Garvit BATRA (IND,UNR) 62 62
[R1] (3) Suk-Young JEONG (KOR,680) bt Vignesh VEERABADRAN (IND,1473) 61 60
[R1] (5) Hyun-Woo NAM (KOR,771) bt (Q) Lakshit SOOD (IND,UNR) 61 64
[R1] (Q) Jae-Min SEOL (KOR,1420) bt (WC) U M Gugan VERMA (IND,UNR) 62 63
[R1] (WC) Vigneshwaran RAMESH (IND,UNR) bt (Q) Saurabh SINGH (IND,UNR) 57 64 75
[R1] (2) Saketh MYNENI (IND,503) bt Rakshay THAKKAR (IND,1317) 61 61

Doubles
[R1] (1) Saketh MYNENI (IND)/ Arun-Prakash RAJAGOPALAN (IND) bt (WC) Vigneshwaran RAMESH (IND)/ Naveen SAAI (IND) 75 62
[R1] Hyun-Woo NAM (KOR)/ Jae-Min SEOL (KOR) bt Roy HOBBS (SIN)/ Austin KAROSI (USA) 57 61 10-3
[R1] (3) Abhijeet TIWARI (IND)/ Ashwin VIJAYRAGAVAN (IND) bt Zach ITZSTEIN (AUS)/ Ronak MANUJA (IND) 76(4) 63
[R1] Suk-Young JEONG (KOR)/ Seong-Gook OH (KOR) bt Sidharth RAWAT (IND)/ Rakshay THAKKAR (IND) 26 76(2) 10-6
[R1] Vivek SHOKEEN (IND)/ Sudanwa SITARAM (IND) bt Tejas CHAUKULKAR (IND)/ Rajat MAHESHWARI (IND) 76(6) 61
[R1] (4) Kunal ANAND (IND)/ Ajai SELVARAJ (IND) bt (WC) Chandril SOOD (IND)/ Lakshit SOOD (IND) 64 76(11)
[R1] Elwin ANTONY (IND)/ Fariz MOHAMMED (IND) bt Shahbaaz KHAN (IND)/ Yang LU (CHN) 62 76(3)
[R1] (2) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND)/ Kaza Vinayak SHARMA (IND) bt (WC) Bharatram BALAJEE (IND)/ U M Gugan VERMA (IND) 62 63

As expected very entertaining match between Karunuday and Sidharth Rawat ... Kaza also gave very fighting performance against Vijay Sundar ... Also unknown local player Vigneshwaran Ramesh earned his first ranking point ... Overall expected results.
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At $10K USA F20 Futures, Joplin, USA

[R1] (1) Sanam Singh (IND,429) vs (WC) Nick Papac (USA,UNR)

Saman is coming back on the court after long injury/ health break.

Golf News
At the Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open, Inverness, Scotland

Final Leaderboard

1 Jeev Milkha Singh (IND) 66 70 68 67 -17 € 518,046
2 Francesco Molinari (ITA) 62 70 67 72 -17 € 345,360
T3 Alexander Noren (SWE) 66 66 70 70 -16 € 174,999
T3 Marc Warren (SCO) 68 69 64 71 -16 € 174,999

T11 S.S.P Chowrasia (IND) 67 67 69 72 -13 € 50,790

Jeev Milkha Singh defeated Italian Francesco Molinari in a play-off, with a 12 foot birdie putt at the first extra hole, to win the Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open at Castle Stuart Golf Links ... With this Jeev also claims a spot in next week’s Open Championship (British open) ... This is Jeev's only second chance of playing the Open, he missed the cut at Carnoustie five years ago.
On the final day Jeev was 5 strokes behind of the leader Francesco Molinari ... Jeev scored unblemish final round with five birdies ... He scored birdies on 1st, 3rd, 5th, 6th and 10th holes ... Other hand Molinari managed only PAR round.

Jeev Milkha Singh - “I was just enjoying a cup of tea and some chocolate cake and watching it on television, and suddenly got excited. I think God has been kind, and I think the field came back and I put myself in a to go in for a play-off - I'm very fortunate."

“It has been really tough - frustrating than anything else. You feel like your game is coming back and another injury creeps up, but I just stuck myself in there and said that you need to work on the physical side, and I worked hard on that. Everything has paid off, and I just want to think about the good things and not what's past and I want to look towards the future now.”

Tennis News

India's 25 yrs old former Davis cup player and former ITF junior top-4 player, Karan Rastogi declared retirement due to persistent injuries ... Last three years he was struggling with a nerve deformation in his left leg ... He is planning to start academy in the future ... Best wishes for his future endeavors.
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At €1M bet-at-home Open German Tennis Championships, Hamburg, Germany

[R1] (1) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) vs Bruno Soares (BRA)/ Alexander Waske (GER)

This week at German tennis championship Rohan and Mahesh r top-seed.
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At $740K Mercury Insurance Open, Carlsbad, USA

[R1] Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA)/ Sania Mirza (IND) vs Hao-Ching Chan (TPE)/ Yung-Jan Chan (TPE)

Sania is also playing Premier tournament in USA with Bethanie ... They r in the top draw and can face top-seed pair in the second round.
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At $50K Penza Challenger, Russia

[R1] (4) Yuki Bhambri (IND,220) vs Divij Sharan (IND,1066)

Doubles
[R1] (1) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs Victor Baluda (RUS)/ Oleksandr Nedovyesov (UKR)

Good opportunity for Yuki to earn more ranking points but Divij is unlucky to face Yuki in the first round ... Divij is top-seed in the doubles with Yuki.
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At $50K An-Ning Challenger, China (clay)

[R1] Vijayant Malik (IND,462) vs Kento Takeuchi (JPN,479)
[R1] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,397) vs (2) Grega Zemlja (SLO,123)

Doubles
[R1] Vijayant Malik (IND)/ Mohamed Safwat (EGY) vs (1) Sanchai Ratiwatana (THA)/ Sonchat Ratiwatana (THA)

Jeevan is having tough first round in his first challenger against second seed ... Vijayant is having winnable match against similar ranked Japanese.

Tennis News
At The Wimbledon 2012, London, Great Britain

Mixed Doubles
[F] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Elena Vesnina (RUS) l (2) Mike Bryan (USA)/ Lisa Raymond (USA) 36 75 46

[SF] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Elena Vesnina (RUS) bt (1) Bob Bryan (USA)/ Liezel Huber (USA) 75 36 63

Another loss in the final for Elena and Leander ... They were runner-up at Australian open also ... In the final Lee failed to hold his serve in 6th game when Elena made couple of unforced errors near net ... Other hand Mike and Lisa's superior serving helped them to win this set ... In the second set Americans take early break when they broke Elena in 3rd game and were on path to win this match in straight sets ... But from 3-5 down Lee and Elena won next 4 games and take the match in decider ... First they broke Mike in 10th game when he was serving for the championship at 5-4 and then broke Lisa in 1th game to win thi set ... In the final set Lee lost his serve in the opening game but immediately Lisa failed to hold her serve and the set came back on serve ... The crucial break Lisa and Mike take on 7th game when they broke Elena and then easily hold their next service games to win desering title.

Before this in the semi-final Lee and Elena scored upset win ove top-seed American pairing Bob Bryan and Liezel Huber ... In the first set Lee and Elena were 2-4 down but they crawled back ... After breaking American's serve in 7th game they take crucial break in 11th game to win the first set ... In the second set Americans take early break in 4th game to win this ... In the decider Lee and Elena take crucial break in4th game on Huber's serve and then hold their service games to complete the victory.

Tennis News
At The Wimbledon 2012, London, Great Britain

Mixed Doubles
[QF] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Elena Vesnina (RUS) bt Paul Hanley (AUS)/ Alla Kudryavtseva (RUS) 62 62

Lee and Elena scored very dominating win over Hanley and Kudryavtseva to enter in the semi-final ... In both sets they broke their opponent pair twice and didnot lose their serve once ... In the first set Lee and Elena didn't face a single break point and converted both break points on Hanley and Kudryavtseva serve ... In the second set Lee and Elena face 2 break points on their serve but managed to save both ... In this set also they converted 2 break points from 3 chances on Hanley and Kudryavtseva serve.

Tennis News
At The Wimbledon 2012, London, Great Britain

Mixed Doubles
[R3] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Elena Vesnina (RUS) bt Max Mirnyi (BLR)/ Victoria Azarenka (BLR) 76(3) 63

[QF] (10) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Jie Zheng (CHN) l (2) Mike Bryan (USA)/ Lisa Raymond (USA) 26 57
[QF] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Elena Vesnina (RUS) vs Paul Hanley (AUS)/ Alla Kudryavtseva (RUS)

Lee and Elena managed to win very tricky match against tough Belarus pair ... They needed tie-break to win the first set but managed to win the second with a single break ... Next they r facing Aussie-Russian combination.

After losing the first set easily Rohan and Jie Zheng produced fight in the second but Mike and Lisa take crucial break in 12th game on Jie Zheng's serve to win this quarter-final in straight sets.

Tennis News
At The Wimbledon 2012, London, Great Britain

Doubles
[R3] (13) Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA)/ Sania Mirza (IND) L Serena Williams (USA)/ Venus Williams (USA) 46 36

Mixed Doubles
[R2] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Elena Vesnina (RUS) bt Ashley Fisher (AUS)/ Mona Barthel (GER) 63

[R3] (10) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Jie Zheng (CHN) bt (6) Daniele Bracciali (ITA)/ Roberta Vinci (ITA) 60 63
[R3] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Elena Vesnina (RUS) vs Max Mirnyi (BLR)/ Victoria Azarenka (BLR)

[QF] (10) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Jie Zheng (CHN) vs (2) Mike Bryan (USA)/ Lisa Raymond (USA)

Expected start for Lee and Elena ... They won the first set with double break ... Lee and Elena broke Fisher and Barthel in 8th game and that was enough to win the second set ... Next they r facing Belarus pair, who will be top-seed in mixed doubles at London Olympics.

Rohan and his Chinese partner Jie Zheng entered into the quarters with very dominating win ... In the first set their 6th seed Italian opponents failed to win a single game and managed little decent score on the scoreboard in the second ... Next in the quarters they r facing 2nd seed American pair.

Williams defeated Sania and Bethanie in the straight sets ... In both sets they take crucial single break and scored somewhat comfortable win.
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At $125K+H Sparkassen Open, Braunschweig, Germany (clay

[QF] Purav Raja (IND)/ Alessandro Motti (ITA) l Harri Heliovaara (FIN)/ Denys Molchanov (UKR) 46 26

Purav and Alessandro lost in straight sets against Heliovaara and Molchanov.
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At $15K Indonesia F2 Futures, Jakarta

[R2] (4) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,417) l (SE) Dong Whee Choi (KOR,UNR) 67(1) 1-2 Retd.
[R2] (7) Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND,480) l Elbert Sie (INA,1062) 60 57 16

Horrible results ... Jeevan retired after losing the first set in tie-break ... Ranjeet lost his match against 1000+ Indonesian after winning the first set 6-0.

Football News
At the AFC U-22 Championship Qualifiers, Muscat, Oman

Group A
India l Oman 0-4
Goal Scored - Hamood Saleh Said Al Sadi (OMA) 54', Raed Ibrahim Saleh (OMA) 67', Mohammed Saleh Hadid Al Mukhaini (OMA) 75', Mubarak Humaid Mubarak Al-Maqbali (OMA) 89'

Oman scored 4 goals in the second half which shattered India's hopes of qualifying for the AFC U-22 Championship ... In this match also Indians started strongly and were looking better team on the field ... But in the second half Oman side kept attacking and converted chances which they created ... Bad loss considering our good performance in the previous matches.

Tennis News
At The Wimbledon 2012, London, Great Britain

[R2] (7) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) l Mikhail Elgin (RUS)/ Denis Istomin (UZB) 57 67(4) 36

[R3] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Radek Stepanek (CZE) l (15) Ivan Dodig (CRO)/ Marcelo Melo (BRA) 64 36 46 76(2) 6-8

Dodig and Melo won the third set win same single break advantage ... In this match Dodig and Melo were putting more pressure on Lee and Radek's service games but our pair managed to hung up and won the fourth set in tie-break ... In the fifth set Dodig and Melo were up 4-2 but Lee and Radek roke back in 7th game to bring this set on the serve ... Another rain-break came when Lee was serving at 6-7 down and 30-all ... Bad timing of rain-break and after coming out Melo and Dodig won next 2 points to complete victory.

In the men's doubles second round Mahesh and Rohan struggled against Big serving Russian pair ... After losing the first set with a single break our pair lost the second set in tie-break ... Rai break didn't help them to comeback instead they lost third set and match ... So it was turn very bad day for us as our both pairs lost their matches.
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At $125K+H Sparkassen Open, Braunschweig, Germany (clay

[R1] Purav Raja (IND)/ Alessandro Motti (ITA) bt (WC) Victor Baluda (RUS)/ Jaan-Frederik Brunken (GER) 75 46 10-7

[QF] Purav Raja (IND)/ Alessandro Motti (ITA) vs Harri Heliovaara (FIN)/ Denys Molchanov (UKR)

Hard fought win for Purav and Alessandro against wild-card pair in the match tie-break ... Next they r facing Molchanov and Heliovaara, who upset 2nd seed pair.
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At $15K Indonesia F2 Futures, Jakarta

[R1] (4) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,417) bt Chieh-Fu Wang (TPE,753) 62 76(4)
[R1] (7) Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND,480) bt (Q) Marc Reyes (ITA,1439) 61 62

[R2] (4) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,417) vs (SE) Dong Whee Choi (KOR,UNR)
[R2] (7) Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND,480) vs Elbert Sie (INA,1062)

Expected winning start for our players though Wang stretched Jeevan in the second ... Next Jeevan having tricky match against unranked Korean, who was finalist in the last week's Indonesian futures.

Tennis News
At The Wimbledon 2012, London, Great Britain

[R3] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Radek Stepanek (CZE) vs (15) Ivan Dodig (CRO)/ Marcelo Melo (BRA) 64 36 3-4

Leander and Radek started confidently and won the first set with a single break ... In the second set Lee and Radek failed to keep momentum and lost set after losing their serve once ... In the third set match was suspended due to rain when Dodig and Melo were a break up.

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At $125K+H Sparkassen Open, Braunschweig, Germany (clay)

[R1] Purav Raja (IND)/ Alessandro Motti (ITA) vs (WC) Victor Baluda (RUS)/ Jaan-Frederik Brunken (GER)

This week Purav is playing with Italian partner Alessandro Motti in this big Braunschweig challenger
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At $15K Indonesia F2 Futures, Jakarta

[Q1] (1) Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND,480) bye
[Q2] (1) Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND,480) bt Shao-Yu Yu (TPE,UNR) 60 60
[Q3] (1) Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND,480) bt Yu Hao Chen (TPE,UNR) 61 62

[R1] (4) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,417) vs Chieh-Fu Wang (TPE,753)
[R1] (7) Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND,480) vs (Q) Marc Reyes (ITA,1439)

As expected Ranjeet qualified for main-draw with comfortable win ... In main-draw he is facing Italian qualifier ... Jeevan is facing Taipei player but this time also young Christopher Rungkat is in his draw and they can face each other in the quarters.

Football News
At the AFC U-22 Championship Qualifiers, Muscat, Oman

Group A
India bt Turkmenistan 4-1
Goal Scored - Lalrindika Ralte (IND) 36' PK, Alwyn George (IND) 71', Romeo Fernandes (IND) 76', Jeje Lalpekhlua (IND) 85' PK' and Italmazov Farhad (TRK) 59'

India’s golden run in the AFC U-22 Championship qualifiers continued, as they scored dominating win over Turkmenistan ... Turks started cautiously but Indians managed to score when Romeo Fernandes brough down inside penalty box ... Ralte converted to give lead to India ... In the second half Turks were lot more attacking and managed to equalized through Farhad ... But Indians scored 3 goals in 15 minutes to seal victory and captured important 3 points ... In their last league match they r playing against host Oman on 3rd July.