Asian Games News

At 17th Incheon Asian Games 2014, South Korea

Wrestling - Men's Freestyle 65kg
Gold - Yogeshwar Dutt (IND)
Silver - Yusupov Zalimkhan (TJK)

Gold Medal match
Yogeshwar Dutt (IND) bt Yusupov Zalimkhan (TJK) 3-0

Athletics - Women's 20km Race Walk
Gold - Lu Xiuzhi (CHN) 1:31:06s
Silver - Khushbir Kaur (IND) 1:33:07s
Bronze - Jeon Yeongeun (KOR) 1:33:18s

Women's 400m
Gold - O M Adekaya (BAH) 51.59s
Silver - Quach Thi Lan (VIE) 52.06s
Bronze - Poovamma (IND) 52.36s

Men's 400m
Gold - Yousef Ahmed Masrahi (KSA)
Silver - Abbas Abubakar Abbas (BAH)
Bronze - Arokia Rajiv (IND) 45.92s PB

Women's Hammer Throw
Gold - Zhang Wenxiu (CHN) 77.33m (GR)
Silver - Wang Zheng (CHN) 74.16m
Bronze - Manju Bala (IND) 60.47m

After ninth day India has four gold, five Silvers and twenty six Bronze medals.

Yogeshwar Dutt win's Gold medal in Freestyle 65kg and after 28 yrs we manage to win Gold medal in wrestling ... In the final Yogeshwar beats Zalimkhan Yusupov of Tajikistan in close match as Yusupov was defending well ... Before this in the semis Yogeshwar made amazing recovery from 1-5 down against Chinese wrestler ... When last few seconds were remaining at that time Yogeshwar was 7-9 down before he managed to pin down his opponent in the dying moments of the match to win via 'victory by fall' verdict ... Other hand Satywart Kadian and Babita Kumari lost in Bronze medal matches as they went down in men's 97kg freestyle and women's 55kg freestyle.

Khushbir Kaur became the first Indian woman to win a medal in race walking in the Asian Games as she won a silver in 20km event ... In men's event K T Irfan finished fifth ... Experienced Poovamma make up for a slow start and get the bronze in 52.36, well below her personal best of 51.73 in Women's 400m ... Arokia Rajiv clocked a personal best time of 45.92s for the bronze medal in Men's 400m ... Manju Bala finished third in the women's hammer throw with a best throw of 60.47m but almost 14m less than Silver medalist Wang Zheng.

In boxing Mary Kom (51kg), L Sarita Devi (60kg) and Pooja Rani (75kg) entered the semi-finals of their respective weight categories with commanding victories ... In that Mary Kom's win over Chinese Si Haijuan was creditable.

In tennis, Sania Mirza and Prarthana Thombare settled for a bronze after losing their women's doubles semi-final to Chinese Taipei's Chin Wei Chan and Su Wei Hsiehin, 76(1) 26 4-10 ... Yuki Bhambri won a bronze in the men's event after unforced errors cost him the semi-final against Japan's Yoshihito Nishioka, 63 26 16 ... Divij-Yuki played error prone game to lose against Korean pair, 76(8) 67(6) 9-11 ... Our pair had 2 match points in the second set tie-break, 6-4 ... In match tie-break our pair take 5-0 lead and after they messed up ... They had lead at 8-7 and 9-8 but failed to convert ... Saketh Myneni got himself in line for two gold medals by reaching the finals of both men's doubles and mixed doubles events ... Saketh and Sanam Singh overcame experienced Thai twins Sanchai and Sonchat Ratiwatana 46 63 10-6 in the men's doubles semi-finals ... Saketh and Sania to reach the mixed doubles final with a convincing 61 63 win over Chinese pair of Zie Zheng and Ze Zhang.

India's Yashaan Zubin Khambatta, riding a horse named Olgy, qualified for the Equestrian Jumping Individual Final Round.

Indian men's volleyball team put up a spirited fight against the much-fancied South Korea before losing 22-25, 25-27, 18-25 in a closely contested group E play-off match.

In Canoeing and Kayaking, Indians entered the finals of five men's and one women's events, with Gaurav Tomar even winning his semi-final race in the men's 1000m C1 event at the Hanam Misari Center and the duo of S Ajit Kumar and Rajiv Rawat taking the second place in men's 1000m C2.

Tennis News

At $1M Malaysian Open, Kuala Lumpur

Doubles Final
(4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Marcin Matkowski (POL) bt (2) Jamie Murray (GBR)/ John Peers (AUS) 36 76(5) 10-5

Lee wins his 54th ATP tour title partnering Marcin Matkowski ... Marcin is Paes’ 98th different doubles partner ... Interestingly Lees has won at least one ATP World Tour title each year since 1997 and Kuala Lumpur marked his first title since winning at the 2013 US Open with Radek Stepanek.

In this match Lee-Marcin failed to break Murray-Peers but after losing the first set Lee-Marcin served strongly and won the second set in tie-break ... They continued this form in match tie-break for lifting the title.
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At $2.5M China Open, Beijing

[Q2] Somdev Devvarman (IND,141) l (2) Martin Klizan (SVK,56) 26 16

Klizan proves too strong for Buji in this one-sided match ... Again Buji stuggle against left-hander.
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At $125K+H Mons Challenger, Belgium

[R1] Purav Raja (IND)/ Rameez Junaid (AUS) vs Marc Gicquel (FRA)/ Nicolas Mahut (FRA)

After long gap Purav is back with Rameez ... Hopefully their partnership will click.
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At $10K Turkey F33 Futures , Antalya

Singles Final
(1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,311) bt (2) Ricardo Rodriguez (VEN,360) 63 60

Congratulations to RamK for winning his sixth futures title ... This is also his fourth title this year and back to back titles in $10K futures in Turkey ... RamK dominated the match from start and won it comfortably losing only 3 games ... This is clear indication that he is dominating futures level and need to move towards next stage, i.e. challnger.

Asian Games News

At 17th Incheon Asian Games 2014, South Korea

Archery - Compound Team Gold Medal match
India bt Korea 227-225

Gold - India (Abhishek Verma, Rajat Chauhan and Sandeep Kumar)
Silver - South Korea
Bronze -

Compound Individual - Gold Medal match
Abhishek Verma (IND) l Esmaeil Ebadi (IRN) 141-145

Gold - Esmaeil Ebadi (IRN)
Silver - Abhishek Verma (IND)
Bronze -

Women's Compound Team Bronze Medal match
India bt Iran 224-217

Gold - South Korea
Silver - Chinese Taipei
Bronze - India (Trisha Deb, Purvasha Shende and Surekha Jyothi)

Compound Individual - Bronze Medal match
Trisha Deb (IND) bt Huang I Jou (TPE) 138-134

Gold -
Silver -
Bronze - Trisha Deb (IND)

Squash - Men's Team Gold medal match
India bt Malaysia 2-0
Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu (IND) bt Iskandar Mohamad Azlan Bin (MAS) 3-1 (11-8, 11-6, 8-11, 11-4) (58 mins)
Saurav Ghoshal (IND) bt Ong Beng Hee (MAS) 3-2 (6-11, 11-7, 11-6, 12-14, 11-9) (88 mins)

Gold - India (Saurav Ghoshal, Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu, Mahesh Mangaonkar and Kush Kumar)
Silver - Malaysia
Bronze -

Women's Team Gold medal match
India l Malaysia 0-2
Anaka Alankamony (IND) l Odette Arnold Delia (MAS) 0-3 (9-11, 10-12, 2-11) (43 mins)
Deepika Pallikal (IND) l Nicol David (MAS) 0-3 (7-11, 6-11, 3-11) (29 mins)

Gold - Malaysia
Silver - India (Deepika Pallikal, Joshana Chinappa, Anaka Alankamony and Aparajitha Balamurukan)
Bronze -

Athletics - Women's 3000m steeplechase
Gold - Ruth Jebet (BAH) 9:31.36s (GR)
Silver - Zhenzhu Li (CHN) 9:35.23s
Bronze - Lalit Babar (IND) 9:35.37s PB

Shooting - Men's 50m 3-Position Rifle
Gold - Cao Yifei (CHN) 455.5 pts
Silver - Zhu Qinan (CHN) 455.2 pts
Bronze - Chain Singh (IND) 441.7 pts

After eight day India having 3 Gold, 3 Silver and 20 Bronze medals.

In Archery our Compound men's team creates history when they beat WR #1 South Korean team in thrilling match ... In Dian men win Gold medal beating Koreans in closely fought match ... Abhishek Verma was in Individual Golad medal match but he loses to very consistent Iranian Esmaeil Ebadi

Women's compound team win Bronze medal ... They defeated Iranian girls comfortably ... In individual event Trisha Deb wins Bronze ... She take advantage of mistake of Huang I Jou on last arrow, when she completely missed the target to win the medal.

In Squash we create history winning four medals ... In team event we win over first Squash Gold medal beating Malaysia in very entertaining match ... In first match Harinder Pal fend of challenge of Malaysian to win it ... In second Match Saurav faces unexpected stiffer challenge from Malaysian Ong Beng Hee ... He won in five games thriller marathon match after 88 minutes.

Our Squash women team fails to create challenge to solid Malaysian team and lost easily in the final ... Still creditable to win Silver for them.

Chain Singh win Bronze medal in Men's 50m 3-Position Rifle behind Chinese shooters ... Chain Singh qualified for the final on 7th position with 1164 points ... Other hand his seniors Sanjeev Rajput and Gagan Narang managed to shoot only 1159 and 1157 ... In team ranking our team missed Bronze by a single point.

Women wrestlers Vinesh and Geetika bagged a bronze medal each in 48kg and 63kg freestyle events respectively as India made an impressive start in wrestling.

Indians assure at least 5 Bronze medals in Tennis after winning five quarter finals ... Only Sanam lost his match against top-seed Lu ... Yuki Bhambri in the men's singles event, Saketh Myneni and Sanam Singh, Yuki and Divij Sharan in men's doubles, women's doubles pair of Sania Mirza and Prarthana Thombare and mixed doubles pair of Sania and Saketh have all entered in the semi-finals.

In boxing MC Mary Kom, L Sarita Devi and Pooja Rani r in quarter-finals of their respective weight categories.

In men's hockey we r in the semis with another disappointing performance ... We labored win over China, 2-0.

Indian women loses formidable Chinese women in women's volleyball quarter-finals, 11-25 12-25 10-25.

Tennis News

At $1M Malaysian Open, Kuala Lumpur

[SF] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Marcin Matkowski (POL) bt Andre Begemann (GER)/ Julian Knowle (AUT) 62 64

[F] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Marcin Matkowski (POL) vs (2) Jamie Murray (GBR)/ John Peers (AUS)

Lee-Marcin score comfortable win over Begemann-Knowle ... In the final they r facing 2nd seed Murray-Peers.
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At $2.5M China Open, Beijing

[Q1] Somdev Devvarman (IND,141) bt (6) Matthew Ebden (AUS,98) 67(6) 75 62

[Q2] Somdev Devvarman (IND,141) vs (2) Martin Klizan (SVK,56)

Good hard earn 10 ranking points for Buji in this match ... After losing tight tie-break he dig deep to fightback ... He won tight second set before dominating the third ... In the final qualifying he is facing top-60 Slovak player Martin Klizan.
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At $1.22M Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships, Tokyo

[R1] Leander Paes (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) vs (WC) Tatsuma Ito (JPN)/ Go Soeda (JPN)

Next week Le and Rohan r playing together and they r facing local wild-card pair in the first round.
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At $10K Turkey F33 Futures , Antalya

[SF] (1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,311) bt Anil Yuksel (TUR,902) 62 75

[F] (1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,311) vs (2) Ricardo Rodriguez (VEN,360)

RamK enter nto another final at futures level with straight sets win over local player ... In the final he is facing 2nd seed Venezuelan Ricardo Rodriguez.

Asian Games News

At 17th Incheon Asian Games 2014, South Korea


Shooting - Men's 25m Centre Fire Pistol
Gold - China 1742 pts
Silver - India 1740 pts (Vijay Kumar, Pemba Tamang and Gurpreet Singh)
Bronze - South Korea


Swimming - Men's 50m Breaststroke
Gold - Dmitriy Balandin (KAZ) 27.78s GR
Silver - Yasuhiro Koseki (JPN) 27,89s
Bronze - Sandeep Sejwal IND) 28.26s

After sixth day India has 17 medals, one Gold, two Silver and 14 Bronze medals.

In Men's 25m Centre Fire Pistol event our military of Vijay Kumar, Pemba Tamang and Gurpreet Singh win Silver medal in team event but in the individual event all three fails to qualify for the final ... The Indian women team of Lajja Gauswami, Anjali Bhagwat and Tejaswini Muley finished sixth in the 50m Rifle 3 Positions Team Finals ... Lajja qualify for the fianl in 4th place but in end finished on 7th postion with 401.1 pts.
We win rare medal in swimming as Sandeep Sejwal wins Bronze medal in the 50m breaststroke ... He is only third swimmer after Khazan Singh in 1986 and Veerdhawal Khade in 2010 ... Sandeep qualified for the final as 2nd best timing ... But in the final Kazakh and Japanese swimmers were too quick ... Still creditable performance by Sandeep in swimming event.

In Squash our both teams are in the final and facing Malaysian teams for Gold medal ... Our women's hockey team thrashed Malaysian girls 6-1 for entering into next stage ... Our recurve archers failed to raise their game and lose before medal matches ... In badminton Saina lose against Yihan Wang ... Akhil Kumar and Amritpreet Singh lose their respective bouts ... Other hand Shiva Thapa and Kuldeep Singh are in the quarters ... In th e tennis our five pairs and individuals r in the quarters.

Tennis News

At $1M Malaysian Open, Kuala Lumpur

[QF] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Marcin Matkowski (POL) bt Jurgen Melzer (AUT)/ Philipp Petzschner (GER) 62 67(5) 10-6

[SF] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Marcin Matkowski (POL) vs Andre Begemann (GER)/ Julian Knowle (AUT)

Lee-Marcin score fighting win over Melzer-Petzschner ... In the semis they r facing tricky unseeded pair of Begemann-Knowle.
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At $10K Turkey F33 Futures , Antalya

[QF] (1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,311) bt Hiroyasu Ehara (JPN,736) 67(5) 62 61

[SF] (1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,311) vs Anil Yuksel (TUR,902)

After losing the first set RamK dominated match for entering in the semis ... In the semis he is facing local player Anil Yuksel.

Asian Games News

At 17th Incheon Asian Games 2014, South Korea


Shooting - Women's Double Trap
Gold - China 315 hits
Silver - South Korea 304 hits.4
Bronze - India (Shagun Chowdhary, Shreyasi Singh, Varsha Varman) 279 hits

Rowing


Men's Single Sculls - Final
Gold - Mohsen Shadinaghadeh (IRN) 7:05:66s
Silver - Kim Dongyong (KOR) 7:06.17s
Bronze - Sawarn Singh Virk (IND) 7:10.65s

Archery

Compound Team

[SF] India l Chinese Taipei 224-226
[SF] India bt Iran 231-227

Compound Individual

[R32] Sandeep Kumar (IND) bt Wai Hung Tsui (HKG) 144-135
[R32] Abhishek Verma (IND) bt Jamiyangombo Purevdorj (MGL) 146-144

[R16] Trisha Deb (IND) bt Yumiko Honda (JPN) 146-140
[R16] Purvasha Sudhir Shende (IND) bt Bolormaa Erdenechimeg (MGL) 132-117
[R16] Sandeep Kumar (IND) bt Lin Hsiang Kung (TPE) 148-143
[R16] Abhishek Verma (IND) bt Tien Cuong Nguyen (VIE) 148-143

[QF] Trisha Deb (IND) bt Shabnam Sarlak (IRN) 142-131
[QF] Purvasha Sudhir Shende (IND) l Jihyun Seok (KOR) 140-143
[QF] Sandeep Kumar (IND) l Paul Marton Dela Cruz (PHI) 135-141
[QF] Abhishek Verma (IND) bt Yonghee Choi (KOR) 147-142

After fifth day India has one gold, one silver and thirteen bronze medals.

In shooting Women's Double Trap team event our girls win Bronze medal ... But other shooters fail to rise.

Sawarn Singh must be complimented for putting up a brave effort in his Bronze medal effort ... The timing he clocked here to win the bronze, 7 minutes 10.65 seconds, was better than his performance at the London Olympic Games two years ago timing wise (7:29.66s) ... But the extra effort put by him in towards the end when he tried to ward off the challenge from South Korean rival Kim Dongyong, saw him collapse due to exhaustion ... He fell off the boat into the water, and had to be taken out by the rescue team to the ambulance.

Another Bronze medal win in rowing by our 8 men team by securing the third position behind gold medal winners China and Japan who crossed the finish line in 1:27.96 and 1:30.39 respectively ... The Indian team of Kapil Sharma, Ranjit Singh, 2010 single sculls gold medal winner Bajrang Lal Takhar, P U Robin, K Sawan Kumar, Mohammad Azad, Maninder Singh, Davinder Singh and Mohammed Ahmed started sluggishly to be trailing in fourth at the halfway stage before making the extra effort to clinch the bronze.

In Archery compound event, Our men are in the final beating Iranian in the semis ... They r facing top-seed Korean team ... Our women team lose in the semis so play in Bronze medal match ... In individual event Abhishek Verma is in the semi-final and Trisha Deb in the semi-final of women's event.

Indian tennis players Yuki Bhambri, Sanam Singh and Ankita Raina registered comfortable wins in their respective singles matches for entering into the pre-quarterfinals.

In badminton, Manu Attri and Sumit Reddy score huge upset win over WR #10 Chinese pair but in shocking result Sindh loses her match against lower ranked Indonesian player losing final game 20-22.

In boxing, 48kg category L Devendro Singh enter the pre-quarters after getting a walkover but in 64kg Manoj Kumar loses against Japanese boxer ... lost 1-2 to Japan's Kawachi Masatsugu.

In pathetic display our men's team lose against Pakistan in hockey ... In recent months we showed vast improvement in performance but here we played below level to lose this match ... Now qualifying for semi-final we need to beat China.

Tennis News

At $590K Shenzhen Open, China

[R2] Somdev Devvarman (IND,141) l (2) Andy Murray (GBR,11) 36 36

Doubles
[QF] (3) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) l Santiago Giraldo (COL)/ Michael Venus (NZL) 46 67(4)

Buji fail to challenge Andy and lose in straight sets ... But shocking loss of Rohan-Aisam against Giraldo-Venus ... Really don't know what happening with our pair ... This season they r fail to put decent performance.
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At $10K Turkey F33 Futures , Antalya

[R2] (1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,311) bt Katsuki Nagao (JPN,1014) 62 75

[QF] (1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,311) vs Hiroyasu Ehara (JPN,736)

Another straight sets win for RamK ... Next he is facing another Japanese opponent, Hiroyasu Ehara.

Asian Games News

At 17th Incheon Asian Games 2014, South Korea

Rowing

Men's Lightweight Single Sculls - Final
Gold - Hoi Kwan Lok (HKG)
Silver - Hakbeom Lee (KOR)
Bronze - Dushiant Dushyant (IND) 7:26.57s

Men's Volleyball - Group C
India bt Maldives (25–10, 25–19, 25–17)

Boxing

Men's 60kg
[R1] Akhil Kumar (IND) bt Purna Bahadur Lama (NEP) (30-24, 30-25) stopped in 3rd round, Technical Knockout

Men's 54kg
[R1] Shiva Thapa (IND) bt Leonel Helo Prada (Timor Leste) w/o

Badminton

[R1] Saina Nehwal (IND) bt Teng Lok U (MAC) 21-10 21- 8
[R1] P V Sindhu (IND) bt Kit Leng Wong(MAC) 21-7 21-13

[R1] Pradnya Gadre (IND)/ Sikky Reddy (IND) bt Sichhya Shrestha (NEP)/Punam Gurung (NEP) 21-16 21-4
[R1] Akshay Dewalkar (IND)/Pranaav Jerry Chopra(IND) l Cai Yun (CHN)/Fu Haifeng (CHN) 10-21 15-21
[R1] B.Sumeeth Reddy (IND)/Manu Attri (IND) bt Nasheeu Shahrafuddeen (MAL)/ Mohamed Sarim (MAL) 21-7 21-7

[PQF] Pradnya Gadre / Sikky Reddy (IND) l (3) Miyuki Maeda / Reika Kakiwa (JPN) 16-21 21-19 14-21

So our poor performance continues nater fourth day, we have one gold and ten bronze medals.

Dushyant missed chance of winning Gold ... He was leading till 1500 mtrs but failed to push in final 500 mtrs to end up on 3rd place.

In volleyball our men's score comfortable win and secure their place in quarter finals, in last match they r facing mighty Iranians ... Expected winning start in badminton ... In Archery our archers r in good position after qualifying ... Our comeback-man Akhil start with solid win and joins Thapa in next round ... In hockey our women lose close match against Chinese girls, 1-2.

Tennis News

At $1M Malaysian Open, Kuala Lumpur

[R1] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Marcin Matkowski (POL) bt Marinko Matosevic (AUS)/ Bernard Tomic (AUS) 61 63

[QF] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Marcin Matkowski (POL) vs Jurgen Melzer (AUT)/ Philipp Petzschner (GER)

Lee-Martin's new partnership start with comfortable win against tricky Aussie pair ... Next they r facing grand slam winner pair of Melzer-Petzschner.
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At $590K Shenzhen Open, China

[R1] (3) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) bt Matthew Ebden (AUS)/ Andreas Seppi (ITA) 64 46 10-7

[QF] (3) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) vs Santiago Giraldo (COL)/ Michael Venus (NZL)

Rohan-Aisam start with tight win in match tie-break ... Next they r facing Giraldo-Venus.
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At $10K Turkey F33 Futures , Antalya

[R1] (1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,311) bt Scott Browne (AUS,2166) 61 62

[R2] (1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,311) vs Katsuki Nagao (JPN,1014)

RamK start with comfortable win ... Next he is facing Japanese Nagao.

Asian Games News

At 17th Incheon Asian Games 2014, South Korea

Shooting - Men's 10m Air Rifle
Gold - China 1889 pts
Silver - South Korea 1867.4 pts
Bronze - India (Abhinav Bindra, Sanjeev Rajput, Ravi Kumar) 1863.0 pts (45x)


Men's 10m Air Rifle - Final
Gold - Haoran Yang (CHN) 209.6 pts.
Silver - Yifei Cao (CHN) 208.9 pts.
Bronze - Abhinav Bindra (IND) 187.1 pts.


Squash
Gold Medal match
Saurav Ghosal (IND) l Abdullah Almezayen (KUW) 2-3 (12-10, 11-2, 12-14, 8-11, 9-11)


Squash - Women's Singles
Gold - Nicol Ann David (MAS)
Silver - Lee We Wern (MAS)
Bronze - Dipika Pallikal (IND) and Annie Au Wing Chi (HKG)

Wushu

Women's Sanda - 52kg
[SF] Yamnam Sanathoi Devi (IND) l Luan Zhang (CHN) 0-2

Men's Sanda - 60kg
[SF] Narender Grewal (IND) l Saclag Jean Claude (PHI) 0-2

Men's Hockey - Group B
India bt Oman 7-0
Goal Scored - Rupinderpal Singh (IND) 18' PC and 19' PC, Akshdeep Singh (IND) 33', VR Raghunath (IND) 39' PS and 60+' PC, Ramandeep Singh (IND) 54', Danish Mujtaba (IND) 60'

After third day India has one gold and five bronze medals.

Abhinav Bindra wins his first individual Asian games medal, when he win Bronze in 10m Air Pistol ... With his help Indian Men's 10m Air Rifle team also wins another Bronze medal for India ... Abhinav finished on 5th position with 625.4 pts and qualify for the final ... Ravi Kumar and Sanjeev Rajput finished on 20th and 21st position with 618.9 pts and 618.7 pts respectively ... In the final Chinese shooters were too good for all shooter still Abhinav managed to grab Bronze in his last professional tournament ... Yesterday he tweeted that, "Tomorrow will mark the end of my professional shooting life. I will however still shoot, compete as a hobby shooter, training twice a week."

Saurav misses big opportunity of becoming first Indian squash player for winning Gold medal at Asian games ... After winning first 2 games Saurav was moving towards straight games victory but Almezayen made dramatic comeback in the match for winning next three games ... Saurav missed Gold medal point at 12-11 in the third game.

In Wushu we win over first ever medals as our both players lose their semi-final matches for winning Bronze medal.

Very ordinary stuff in hockey by Indian players in their match against Oman ... VR Raghunath missed 8 penalty corners in this match tell us whole story of our performance ... The most worrying factor for India will be ace drag-flicker Rupinderpal's injury before the crucial game against arch-rivals Pakistan.

Tennis News

At $590K Shenzhen Open, China

[R1] Somdev Devvarman (IND,141) bt (WC) Xin Gao (CHN,946) 63 46 64

[R2] Somdev Devvarman (IND,141) vs (2) Andy Murray (GBR,11)

Usual roller coaster win for Buji against lowly ranked player ... After winning the first set comfortably he gave chance to Gao for fightback .. But luckily Buji recovered in the third for winning this match ... Next he is facing Andy Murray.
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At $1M Malaysian Open, Kuala Lumpur

[Q3] (2) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND,315) l (5) Philipp PETZSCHNER (GER,519) 57 26
[Q3] (7) N Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,829) l (1) James WARD (GBR,121) 26 16

Jeevan gives some fighting performance in the first set against former top-35 German player Philipp Petzschner ... Money and 7 ranking points wise still good week for Jeevan and Vijay Sundar.
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Asian Games News

At 17th Incheon Asian Games 2014, South Korea


Shooting - Women's 25m Pistol
Gold - South Kora 1749 pts
Silver - China 1747 pts
Bronze - India (Rahi Sarnobat, Anisa Sayyed, Heena Sindhu) 1729 pts (45x)

Women's 25m Pistol - Individual Semi-final
7. Rahi Sarnobat (IND) 15 pts

Shooting - Women's 10m Air Rifle
7. Ayonika Paul (IND) 101.9 pts

Squash
[SF] Saurav Ghosal (IND) bt Ong Beng Hee (MAS) 3-0 (11-9, 11-4, 11-5)

[SF] Dipika Pallikal (IND) l Nicol Ann David (MAS) 0-3 (4-11, 4-11, 5-11)

Tennis - Men's Quarter Final
[R2] (6) India l (1) Kazakhstan 1-2

Sanam Singh l Aleksandr Nedovyesov 67(5) 67(3)
Yuki Bhambri l Mikhail Kakushkin 26 76(6) 16
Divij Sharan/ Saketh Myneni bt Aleksandr Nedovyesov/ Andrey Golubev 75 75

Tennis - Women's Quarter Final
[R2] India l (2) Kazakhstan 1-2

Prarthana thombare l Yuliya Putintseva 36 26
Ankita Raina l Yaroslava Shvedova 5-7 67(3)
Rushika Sunkara/ Natasha Palha bt Yuliya Putintseva/ Yaroslava Shvedova 3-2 retd.

Men's Basketball - Group B
India bt Kazakhstan 80-61

Women's Hockey - Group A
India bt Thailand 3-0
Goal Scored - Poonam Rani (IND) 15', Vandana Kataria (IND) 39', Deepika (IND) 53'

Football - Men's Group G
India l Jordan 0-2

Women's Volleyball - Group A
India l Japan 0-3 (6-25, 11-25, 12-25)

Women's Handball - Group A
India l China 12-39

Men's Handball - Group D
India l Japan 12-47

Gymnastics

Artistic Women's Team Final

8. India 179.625 pts

Artistic Women's - Qualification

30. Pranati Nayak (IND) 44.675 pts (qualify)
31. Pranati Das (IND) 43.700 pts (failed to qualify)
34. B. Aruna Reddy (IND) 43.150 pts (failed to qualify)

Uneven Bars- Qualification
45. Payal Bhattacharjee (IND) 7.900 pts (failed to qualify)

Beams- Qualification
45. Rucha Divekar (IND) 10.150 pts (failed to qualify)

All Around - Qualification
23. Dipa Karmakar (IND) 47.850 pts (qualify)

Vault - Qualification
3. Dipa Karmakar (IND) 14.400 pts (qualify)

Rowing

Lightweight Women's Quadruple Sculls - Repechage
5 India (Dittymol/ Monalisha/ Chaoba/ Manjula) 7:05.65s (failed to qualify)

Judo
Women's 78+kg
[QF] Rajwinder Kaur (IND) l Odkhuu Javzmaa (MGL) 000-101

Women's 78+kg - Repechage A
[R1] Rajwinder Kaur (IND) l Nagira Sabashova (KGZ) 000-111

Wushu
Men's Nanquan - Final
13. Sajan Lama (IND) 7.95

Women's Sanda - 52kg
[QF] Yamnam Sanathoi Devi (IND) bt Sangidorj Amgalanjargal (MGL) 2-0

Men's Sanda - 60kg
[QF] Narender Grewal (IND) bt Abdullah (PAK) 2-0

Men's Sanda - 75kg
[QF] Rajani Deori (IND) l Van Sy Ngo (VIE) 0-2

Swimming
Men's 50m Backstroke - Heat 3
6 Madhu Prathapan Nair (IND) 26.85s

Cycling - Men's Sprint
Qualifying
13. Amrit Singh (IND) 64.917(qualify)
14. Amarjit Nagi (IND) 65.952s (qualify)

Round of 16
Amrit Singh (IND) l Saifei Bao (CHN) - Heat 5
Amarjit Nagi (IND) l Chao Xu (CHN) - Heat 6

After first day India has two medals from shooting; one gold and three bronze medals.

Rahi Sarnobat, Anisa Sayyed and Heena Sindhu win Bronze for India in Women's 25m Pistol team event ... Rahi qualified for the final on 8th place with 580 pts but in end finished on 7th ... In Women's 10m Air Rifle, Ayonika Paul finished 7th in the final after she qualified for the final on 3rd place with 417.7 pts.

In Squash we r making history as Saurav is in Gold medal match after comfortably winning his semi-final against 2006 Gold medalist Ong Beng Hee ... Dipiks lose one-sided in the semis against Nicole but she also guaranteed Bronze.

In Women's hockey we win against Thailand ... In Men's Basketball we beat Kazakh team comfortably but we lose in Volleyball and handball.

In Wushu our two players r in the semis; Narender Grewal and Yamnam Sanathoi Devi ... In tennis our both teams lose against top-seed Kazakh team.

Tennis News

At $1M Malaysian Open, Kuala Lumpur

[Q2] (2) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND,315) bt Stefan MERUNKA (CRO,1536) 76(4) 46 61
[Q2] (7) N Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,829) bt John PEERS (AUS,UNR) 60 60

[Q3] (2) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND,315) vs (5) Philipp PETZSCHNER (GER,519)
[Q3] (7) N Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,829) vs (1) James WARD (GBR,121)

Dominating win by Jeevan against lower ranked Croatian ... Vijay Sundar score hard fought win ... In the final round our both players facing tough challenge.
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At $10K Turkey F32 Futures , Antalya

Singles Final
(1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,306) bt (2) Remi Boutillier (FRA,447) 64 76(8)

RamK wins his fifth futures title and third this year by winning $10K futures in Turkey ... I m really feeling he should start playing more challengers ... Hopefully he will start playing in the future but congrats for another futures title.

Asian Games News

At 17th Incheon Asian Games 2014, South Korea


Shooting - Men's 10m Pistol
Gold - South Korea 1744 pts
Silver - China 1743 pts (65x)
Bronze - India (Jitu Rai, Samaresh Jung, Prakash Nanjappa) 1743 pts (64x)

Men's 10m Pistol - Individual Final
5. Jitu Rai (IND) 138.3 pts

Shooting - Trap Men
11 Mansher Singh (IND) 117/75
14 Manavjit Singh Sandhu (IND) 116/125
36 Kynan Chenai (IND) 108/125

Badminton - Women's Semi-Final
India l South Korea 1-3

Saina Nehwal bt Sung Ji Hyun (KOR) 21-12 10-21 21-9
PV Sindhu l Bae Yeon Ju (KOR) 21-14 18-21 13-21
N Sikki Reddy/ Pradnya Gadre l Kim So-young/ Yena Chang 16-21 17-21
P.C. Thulasi l Kim Hyo Min 12-21 8-21

Squash
[QF] Saurav Ghosal (IND) bt Iqbal Nasir (PAK) 3-1 (11-6, 9-11, 11-2, 11-9)


[QF] Dipika Pallikal (IND) bt Joshna Chinappa (IND) 3-2 (7-11, 11-9, 11-8, 15-17, 11-9)

Tennis - Men
[R2] India bt Nepal 3-0

Sanam Singh bt Abhishek Bastola 60 61
Yuki Bhambri bt Jeetendra Pariyar 60 60
Sanam Singh/ Saketh Myneni bt Santosh Khatri/ Dawa Sonam Sherpa 60 60

Men's Hockey - Group B
India bt Sri Lanka 8-0
Goal Scored - Danish Mujtaba (IND) 6', Rupinderpal Singh (IND) 12' PS, 45' PC and 46' PC, Raghunath Ramachandra (IND) 13' PC, Kangujam Chinglensana Singh (IND) 21', Ramandeep Singh (IND) 28' and 59'

Football - Women's Group A
India l Thailand 0-10

Men's Basketball - Group B
India l Saudi Arabia 67-73

Men's Handball - Group D
India l South Korea 19-39

Women's Handball - Group A
India dw Thailand 26-26

Equestrian - Dressage Individual Intermediate I

13. Shruti Vora 68.474 (qualify)
19. Nadia Haridass 66.105 (qualify)
29. Shubhsri Rajendra 59.421 (failed to qualify)
30. Vanita Malhotra 56.211 (failed to qualify)

Gymnastics
All Around Men's Team Final

10. India 315.650

All Around Men's - Qualification

18. Ashish Kumar (IND) 80.250 (qualify)
22. Rakesh Patra (IND) 78.900 (qualify)
30. Aditya Singh Rana (IND) 75.675 (failed to qualify)

Floor Excersies - Qualification

35. Chandan Pathak (IND) 13.600 (failed to qualify)
56. Abhijit Shinde (IND) 12.400 (failed to qualify)

Pommel Horse

15. Dhan Bahadur (IND) 14.025 (failed to qualify)

Rowing
Open Men's Coxed Eights - Heat
2 India 5:53.58s (qualified)

Men's Singles Sculls - Heat 1
2 Sawarn Singh (IND) 7:10.65s (qualify for Repechage)

Open Men's Double Sculls - Heat
3 Om Prakash/ Bhokanal (IND) 6:41.67s (qualify for Repechage)

Lightweight Men's Quadruple Sculls - Heat
4 India (Rajesh/ Vikram/ Sonu/ Sokhendar) 6:20.09s (qualify for Repechage)

Open Women's Quadruple Sculls - Heat
5 India (Lakshmi/ Sanjukta/ Amanjot/ Navneet) 7:26.50s (qualify for Repechage)

Swimming
Men's 200m Freestyle - Heat 4
5 Saurabh Sangvekar (IND) 1:53.33s

Men's 200m Butterfly - Heat 1
4 Aaron Agnel D'Souza (IND) 2:04.74s

Men's 100m Backstroke - Heat 3
7 Madhu Prathapan Nair (IND) 57.81s

Cycling - Women's Keirin
Heats
5. Deborah (IND) +4.220 gap (heat 1) (failed to qualify)
5. Mahitha Mohan (IND) +1.231 gap (heat 2) (failed to qualify)

Final 7-12
9. Deborah (IND) +0.301 gap
11. Mahitha Mohan (IND) +0.768 gap

After second day India has three medals from shooting; one gold and two bronze.

In closely fought Men's 10m Pistol event India finish on third place to win Bronze ... Gold medal winner South Koreans had 1 more point from Indian team and Silver medalist Chinese team had sme points but had 1 extra shots on bulls eye ... Still creditable performance by Indian team consist of Jitu Rai, Samaresh Jung and Prakash Nanjappa for winning the Bronze ... Other hand Jitu missed chance of winning another individual medal as he finished on 5th position in the final after qualifying for the final on 2nd place with 585 pts.

In Trap Men our all three shooters showed disappointing performance as nobody managed to finish inside top-10 and In team event India finished on 6th position with 341/375 hits.

In badminton women's semi-final, Saina started with three games win over Korean Sung Ji Hyun but Sindhu lost after winning the first game against Bae Yeon Ju ... After that our young doubles pair failed to challenge Korean pair and Thulasi also lost her singles match without much fight ... Still with this we secure our first-ever team Bronze in Asian games.

In Squash Dipika score hard fought win over Joshana in five games thriller ... With this win Dipika secure her Bronze as semi-finalist ... Saurav also guaranteed her Bronze medal as he beats Pakistani Iqbal Nasir in four games.

Our Men's team start with dominating win against Nepal ... They lose only one game in three matches but next they r facing top-seed team.

In hockey Indian men start with comfortable win over Sri Lanka ... This match was played with new rule, i.e. the duration of the game has been reduced from 70 to 60 minutes, with four quarters of 15 minutes each.

Indian women fails to qualify for quarter-final after one-sided loss against Thai girls.

In Basket ball our men's lose close mach against Saudi Arabia.

In Handball our women draw with Thailand and our men's team lose against South Korean team.

In Dressage Individual Shruti Vora and Nadia Haridass qualify for next stage.

In Gymnastic Ashish Kumar and Rakesh Patra qualify for next stage in All Around event.

Overall good day in Rowing as our all rowers move to next stage.

Tennis News

At $1M Toray Pan Pacific Open, Tokyo, Japan (WTA Premier)

Doubles Final
(1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) bt (4) Garbine Muguruza (ESP)/ Carla Suarez Navarro (ESP) 62 75

Sania-Cara defend their title at Tokyo ... In the final they defeat 4th seed Spanish pair in straight sets ... Sania is joining Indian Asian games team at Incheon.
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At $1M Malaysian Open, Kuala Lumpur

[Q1] (2) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND,315) bye
[Q1] (7) N Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,829) bye
[Q1] Mithun MURALI (IND,1069) l Singekrawee WATTANAKUL (THA,1125) 46 63 26

[Q2] (2) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND,315) vs Stefan MERUNKA (CRO,1536)
[Q2] (7) N Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,829) vs John PEERS (AUS,UNR)

Doubles
[R1] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Marcin Matkowski (POL) vs Marinko Matosevic (AUS)/ Bernard Tomic (AUS)

Jeevan and Vijay r playing in qualifying ... Lee is playing with Marcin, his 98th partner on the tour.
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At Shenzhen Open, China

[R1] Somdev Devvarman (IND,143) vs (WC) Xin Gao (CHN,946)

Doubles
[R1] (3) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) vs Matthew Ebden (AUS)/ Andreas Seppi (ITA)

Buji having easy first round and he can meet Andy Murray in the second round ... In the doubles Rohan-Aisam r 3rd seed and facing Australian-Italian pair.
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At $10K Turkey F32 Futures , Antalya

[SF] (1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,306) bt (6) Matija Pecotic (CRO,663) 63 64

[F] (1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,306) vs (2) Remi Boutillier (FRA,447)

RamK score comfortable win over his Croatian opponent Pecotic ... In the final he is facing 2nd see Frenchman Remi Boutillier.

Asian Games News

At 17th Incheon Asian Games 2014, South Korea


Shooting - Men's 50m Pistol
Gold - Jitu Rai (IND) 186.2 pts
Silver - Hoang Phuong Nguyen (VIE) 183.4 pts
Bronze - Wang Zhiwei (CHN) 165.6 pts


Shooting - Women's 10m Air Pistol
Gold - Zhang Mengyuan (CHN)
Silver - Jung Jeehae (KOR)
Bronze - Shweta Chaudhry (IND) 176.4 pts

Shooting - Trap Men
Manavjit Singh Sandhu (IND) 72/75 (day 1)
Mansher Singh (IND) 69/75 (day 1)
Kynan Chenai (IND) 65/75 (day 1)

Badminton - Women's R16
India bt Macau 3-0

Saina Nehwal bt Kit Ieng Wong 21-6 21-4
PV Sindhu bt Teng Iok U 21-8 21-9
N Sikki Reddy/ Pradnya Gadre bt Zhibo Zhang/ Rong Wang 21-16 21-17

Badminton - Men's R16
India l South Korea 0-3

K. Srikanth l Wanho Son 14-21 8-21
Manu Attri/ R. Sumeeth Reddy l Yeonseong Yoo/ Yongdae Lee 12-21 9-21
Parupalli Kashyap l Hyunil Lee 21-6 14-21 10-21

Men's Basketball - Group B
India bt Palestine 89-49

Men's Handball - Group D
India l Chinese Taipei 20-39

Women's Handball - Group A
India l South Korea 11-47

Judo
Men's 60kg

[R32] Navjot Chana (IND) bt Almaraghy Abdalla (KUW) 1-0 Ippon
[R16] Navjot Chana (IND) l Boldbaatar Ganbat (MGL) 0-1 Ippon, 1 Waza-ari

Women's 48kg

[R16] Sushila Devi Likmabam (IND) bt Kubeeva Mukaddas (UZB) 001-000
[QF] Sushila Devi Likmabam (IND) l Emi Yamagishi (JPN) 0-1 Ippon

Women's 48kg - Repechage B
[R1] Sushila Devi Likmabam (IND) l Shugen Wu (CHN) 0-1 Ippon

Women 52kg

[R16] Kalpana Devi Thoudam (IND) bt Devika Khadka (NEP) 1-0 Ippon
[QF] Kalpana Devi Thoudam (IND) l Yingnan Ma (CHN) 000-010

Women's 52kg - Repechage B
[R1] Kalpana Devi Thoudam (IND) bt Pei Ju Lien (TPE) 1-0 Ippon
[Bronze Medal match] Kalpana Devi Thoudam (IND) l Lenariya Mingazova (KAZ) 000-101

Rowing
Lightweight Men's Single Sculls - Heat 2
2 Dushyant 7:23.94s (qualified)

Lightweight Men's Doubles Sculls - Heat
5 Roopender/ Manjeet (IND) 6:44.51s (qualified)

Open Women's Coxless Pairs - Heat
6 Samjukta/ Tarunikha (IND) 8:24.48s (qualified)

Lightweight Women's Quadruple Sculls - Heat
4 Dittymol/ Monalisha/ Chaoba/ Manjula (IND) 7:10.24s (failed)

Squash
[R16] Saurav Ghosal (IND) bt Ahmed Al Saraj (JOR) 3-0 (11-2, 11-4, 11-3)
[R16] Harinder Pal Sandhu (IND) l Abdullah Al Muzayen (KUW) 0-3 (4-11, 6-11, 2-11)

[R1] Joshna Chinappa (IND) bt Song Sun-mi (KOR) 3-0 (11-9, 11-7, 11-7)
[R1] Dipika Pallikal (IND) bt Gu Jinyue (CHN) 3-1 (11-6, 10-12, 11-6, 11-4)

Tennis - Women
[R1] India bt Oman 3-0

Prarthana Thombare bt Sarah Abdulmajeed 60 61
Ankita Raina bt Fatma Talib Sulaiman 64 26 63
Rishika Sunkara/ Natasha Palha bt Sarah Abdulmajeed/ Fatma Talib Sulaiman w/o

Volleyball - Women's Group A
India l South Korea 0-3 (15-25, 12-25, 13-25)

Volleyball - Men's Group C
India bt Hong Kong 3-1 (23-25, 25-18, 25-16, 25-21)

Weightlifting - Men's 56 kg
6 Sukhen Dey (IND) 242kg

Weightlifting - Women's 48 kg (Group A)
9 Mirabai Chanu Saikhom (IND) 171kg
10 Khumukcham Sanjita Chanu (IND) 166kg

Cycling
Women's Team Sprint
India - Deborah/ Kezia 48.908s (failed to qualify)

Men's Team Sprint
India - Amrit/ Alan/ Amarjit 1:04.644s (failed to qualify)

Wushu
Men's Changquan
9th Anjul Namdeo (IND) 9.03

Men's Sanda - 60kg
[R16] Narender Grewal (IND) bt Tharu Mangal Pasad (NEP) 2-0

Men's Sanda - 60kg
[R16] Mayanglambam Bimoljit Singh (IND) l Salaheddin Bayramov (TKM) 0-1

Women's Sanda - 52kg
[R16] Yamnam Sanathoi Devi (IND) bt Mubarak Kamakova (UZB) 2-0

Men's Sanda - 56kg
[R16] Santosh Kumar (IND) l Railin Rizaidin (KAZ) 1-2

Women's Sanda - 60kg
[R16] Wangkhem Sandhyarani Devi (IND) l Thi Ly Tan (VIE) 0-2

Equestrian
Dressage Team Prix St-Georges
6 India 65.158

Dressage Individual Prix St-Georges
Nadia Haridass 67.395 (qualify)
Shruti Vora 66.184 (qualify)
Shubhsri Rajendra 61.895 (qualify)
Vanita Malhotra 58.947 (qualify)

Badminton - Women's Quarter-finals
India bt Thailand 3-2

Saina Nehwal bt Ratchanok Intanon 21-15 17-21 21-18
PV Sindhu bt Porntip Buranaprasertsuk 21-15 21-13
P.C. Thulasi l Busanan Ongbumrungpan 12-21 14-21
N Sikki Reddy/ Pradnya Gadre l Porntip Buranaprasertsuk/ Kunchala Voravichitchaikul 17-21 21-18 16-21
Ashwini Ponnappa/ PV Sindhu bt Sapsiree Taerattanachai/ Saralee Thoungthongkam 21-16 21-17

After first day India has two medals from shooting; one gold and one bronze.

Jitu Rai give India its first gold medal from the 17th Asian Games on first day ... In see-saw final round which having tough field, in that in beginning Jitu jumped to fourth and again dropped to sixth before making an amazing recovery to clinch the gold medal ... Jitu qualified for final on 7th position with 559 pts but Om Prakash and Omkar Singh failed to qualify for the final round finishing 10th (555 pts) and 16th (551 pts) respectively ... Three-time Olympic champion and local favorite Jin Jongoh qualified for the final on top position but in the final he eliminated 2nd to finish on 7th position ... The Indian team comprising of Jitu Rai, Om and Omkar finished fourth and missed the team bronze by five points.

Before Jitu's Gold medal Shweta Chaudhry gives India its first medal from 17th Asian Games ... She won bronze in the Women 10m Air Pistol Finals and before that she qualified for the final with 383 pts ... Other hand Indians favorites Heena Sidhu and Malaika Goel failed to make it to the finals ... Heena finished on 13th with 378 pts and Malaika finished on 24th with 373 pts ... In team event our team ended on 5th position.

In badminton women's round of 16, India convincingly defeats Macau-China for entering into the quarters ... In the quarters our girls are facing Thailand ... But our men's team lose their match in R16 against host South Korea.

Comfortable winning start for Indian men's in basketball but their real test will be started from next matches.

In handball our both teams lose their respective group matches.

In Judo, Kalpana Devi Thoudam lose Bronze medal match against Kazak's Judoka Lenariya Mingazova.

In rowing our only Lightweight Women's Quadruple Sculls team fail to qualify for next round.

In Squash singles, Saurav start with comfortable win but Harinder Pal lose his match easily against Kuwaiti ... In women's singles Dipika and Joshna r stretched by unknown players.

Expected winning start for Indian women tennis team against Oman.

Our volleyball men's team struggle in their win over Hong Kong and host South Korean women team prove too strong for our women.

Disappointing first day at Weightlifting for our three lifters.

Narender Grewal and Yamnam Sanathoi Devi are in the quarters of their respective Wushu weight categories.

In Equestrian Dressage team event India finishes on 6th position but our all four riders qualify for Individual event.

In the evening Indian women play quarter final against 4th seed Thailand and score upset win in tight match ... Saina and PV Sindhu scored upset win over their higher ranked opponents Ratchanok and Porntip in contrasting style to give India 2-0 lead but Thai girls fought back for winning third single and first doubles rubber ... In the final rubber Ashwini paired with Sindhu and they scored upset win over Thai pair in straight games for upset win.

Tennis News

At $1M Toray Pan Pacific Open, Tokyo, Japan (WTA Premier)

[SF] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) bt Jelena Jankovic (SRB)/ Arantxa Parra Santonja (ESP) 63 62

[F] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) vs (4) Garbine Muguruza (ESP)/ Carla Suarez Navarro (ESP)

Sania-Cara score comfortable win over Jankovic-Parra Santonia in the semis ... In the final they r facing 4th seed Spanish pair of Garbine Muguruza and Carla Suarez Navarro.
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At $10K Turkey F32 Futures , Antalya

[QF] (1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,306) bt Duck Hee Lee (KOR,578) 62 64

[SF] (1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,306) vs (6) Matija Pecotic (CRO,663)

Very dominating win by RamK against young talented Korean Duck Hee Lee ... Next he is facing Croatian Pecotic.
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At $15K Sweden F4 Futures, Danderyd

[R1] (2) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Patrik ROSENHOLM (SWE) bt Morgan JOHANSSON (SWE)/ Christian SAMUELSSON (SWE) 36 62 10-4
[QF] (2) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Patrik ROSENHOLM (SWE) bt Philip ORNO (DEN)/ Mohamed SHABIB (DEN) 57 76(6) 10-4
[SF] (2) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Patrik ROSENHOLM (SWE) bt (4) Jesper BRUNSTROM (SWE)/ Maxim DUBARENCO (MDA) 76(2) 64

Doubles Final
(2) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Patrik ROSENHOLM (SWE) bt Jacob ADAKTUSSON (SWE)/ Tobias BLOMGREN (SWE) 64 64

After losing in the first round of singles Bala partnered Patrik Rosenholm for lifting doubles title ... Hopefully this performance help him to perform better in next week's singles.

Tennis News

At $1M Toray Pan Pacific Open, Tokyo, Japan (WTA Premier)

[R1] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) bt Casey Dellacqua (AUS)/ Lisa Raymond (USA) 63 36 10-8
[QF] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) bt Belinda Bencic (SUI)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) 64 62

[SF] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) vs Jelena Jankovic (SRB)/ Arantxa Parra Santonja (ESP)

After winning close first round Sania-Cara score more comfortable win over Swiss pair including Martina Hingis in the quarters ... In the semis they r facing unseeded pair of Jankovic-Parra Santonja.
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At $10K Turkey F32 Futures , Antalya

[R1] (1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,306) bt Wishaya Trongcharoenchaikul (THA,781) 64 62
[R2] (1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,306) bt Adrian Bodmer (SUI,991) 67(5) 75 75

[QF] (1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,306) vs Duck Hee Lee (KOR,578)
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RamK stretch to fullest by Swiss player Bodmer in the second round ... In the quarters he is facing young talented Korean junior Duck Hee Lee.

Asian Games News

At 17th Incheon Asian Games 2014, South Korea

Group A - Women
India l Korea 0-10 (0-5)
Goal Scored - Yoo Younga (KOR) - 4 goals, Jeon Gaeul (KOR) - 3 goals, Jung Seoblin (KOR) - 2 goals, Park Heeyoung (KOR)

Our women thrashed by Korean women in one-sided match ... Our players failed to took a single shot on Korean goal-post, that's told us story of the match ... Only 19% ball possession for Indian girls ... They need huge improvement for game against Thailand for qualifying to quarter-final.

Tennis News

At $1M Toray Pan Pacific Open, Tokyo, Japan (WTA Premier)

[R1] (3) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) vs Casey Dellacqua (AUS)/ Lisa Raymond (USA)

Sania is defending champion here so huge points at stake.
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At $125K Izmir Challenger, Turkey

[R1] Purav Raja (IND)/ Andreas Siljeström (SWE) l (4) Victor Baluda (RUS)/ Konstantin Kravchuk (RUS) 64 46 8-10

Another bad loss for Purav with his partner against similar ranked opponents.

Asian Games News

At 17th Incheon Asian Games 2014, South Korea

Group A - Women
India bt Maldives 15-0
Goal Scored - Sasmita Malik (IND) 5', 16', 26', 80' and 87', Kamala Devi (IND) 12', 23', 30', 41' and 66', Bala Devi (IND) 13' and 37', Bembem Devi (IND) 57', Ashalata Devi (IND) 51', Prameshwori Devi (IND) 90+'

Our women score one-sided win over Maldives girls ... In crucial matches India next play hosts South Korea on September 17 before taking on Thailand on September 19 in their last group match ... Three teams from the four-team will qualify for the quarterfinals ... So with this win Indian women qualify for quarter-final.
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Group G - Men
India l UAE 0-5 (0-3)
Goal Scored - Saeed Alkatheeri (UAE) 13', 15' and 64', Al Ahbabi (UAE) 19' and Sandesh Jhingan (IND) OG 82'

Humiliating 0-5 thrashing at the hands of United Arab Emirates in its Asian Games for Indian men ... Indians failed in defending and attacking ... This loss meant that our players could fly back home early from the Games as they play another strong team in Jordan on September 22 in their second and final group match.

Tennis News

At Davis Cup - World Group play-off 2014, Bengaluru, India

India l Serbia 2-3

Day One
[R1] Yuki Bhambri (IND,153) l Dusan Lajivic (SRB,61) 36 26 57
[R2] Somdev Devvarman (IND,144) l Filip Krajinovic (SRB,107) 16 64 36 26

Day Two
[R3] Leander Paes (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) bt Nenad Zomonjic (SRB)/ Ilija Bozolac (SRB) 16 67(4) 63 63 8-6

Day Three
[R4] Somdev Devvarman (IND,144) bt Dusan Lajivic (SRB,61) 16 64 46 63 62
[R5] Yuki Bhambri (IND,153) l Filip Krajinovic (SRB,107) 36 46 46

Somdev completes superb fighting win in 3 hours and 37 minutes against WR #61 Dusan Lajivic in five sets thriller to took tie in fifth rubber ... In the first set Dusan broke Buji twice for taking it comfortably ... In the second set Buji raised his game and matches with Dusan ... Buji saved 8 break points and converted crucial in 10th game for winning this set ... In the third set Buji broke Dusam in 2nd game to lead 3-0 but from 4-1 suddenly dip in Buji's game ... Dusan take full advantage of it and he won next five games breaking Buji in 7th and 9th games for winning this set ... In the start of fourth set Buji was under pressure but after third game both players started to play attacking game ... From 2-1 in Buji's favors we experienced 5 break of service games in a row ... In that Buji broke Dusan in 4th, 6th and 8th games and other hand Dusan broke Buji in 5th and 7th games ... Buji hold crucial service games in 9th game for taking match into decider ... In final set Buji saved couple of break points from 15-40 in 2nd game for 1-all .. After that Buji dominated the set he broke Dusan in 3rd and 7th games and other hand holding his service game comfortably for winning the set and match for India.

In the final rubber Filip had a good start as he take advantage of Yuki's wayward game to broke him 2nd game to lead 3-0 ... Yuki broke Filip in 5ht game to 2-3 but again lost his service game in next game with unforced errors, 2-4 ... Filip kept that advantage for winning the set ... In the second set Yuki started well and broke Filip in 2nd game to lead 2-0 but afterwards usual Yuki's erratic game came back ... He lost next four games losing his service twice in 3rd and 5th games, 2-4 ... Yuki managed to recover and he broke Filip in 8th game for making 4-all ... After that match stopped due to rain break ... Match continued on Monday and Filip immediately broke Yuki in 9th game ... Then he hold his service game for winning the second set ... Filip take early break in the final set and kept that advantage through out the set despite facing couple of break points ... Filip won the set and match, so with that Serbia manage to keep their place in World Group but other hand India is back in Asia-Oceanic group ... In this match Yuki hit 34 winners and Filip hit 24 winners but Yuki made 66 unforced errors in comparison Filip made 38 unforced errors ... Yuki need to learn of playing percentage tennis whenever needs.

Badminton News

At $125K Yonex-Sunrise Indonesian Masters 2014 (GP Gold), Palembang

Men's Final
(5) H. S. Prannoy (IND,43) bt Firman Abdul Kholik (INA,UNR) 21-11 22-20

Prannoy lifts his first prestigious GP Gold title and that's also outside India when he beats young Indonesian qualifier Firman Abdul Kholik in two games ... After winning the first game comfortably Prannoy faced tough challenge by Firman in the second game ... Till 16-all they were neck to neck but at that time Prannoy won next 4 points for giving 4 match points ... Firman kept fighting and saved all 4 match points, 20-all but Prannoy earned another match point and converted this for winning this match in 42 minutes.

Shooting News

At 51st ISSF World Championship - All Events, Granada, Spain

Our shooters fail to hit targets and ended lowly in 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Men ... Gurpreet Singh ended on 21st with 574 pts, Harpreet Singh ended on 27th with 572 pts and favorite Vijay Kumar ended on lowly 36th with only 569 pts.

In Double Trap Men also our player fail to qualify for the final ... Mohammad Asab finished on 11th with 140 hits, Ankur Mittal finished on 16th with 138 hits and Sangram Dahiya finished on 31st with 131 pts..

Tenis News

At Davis Cup - World Group play-off 2014, Bengaluru, India

India vs Serbia 1-2

Day One
[R1] Yuki Bhambri (IND,153) l Dusan Lajivic (SRB,61) 36 26 57
[R2] Somdev Devvarman (IND,144) l Filip Krajinovic (SRB,107) 16 64 36 26

Day Two
[R3] Leander Paes (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) bt Nenad Zomonjic (SRB)/ Ilija Bozolac (SRB) 16 67(4) 63 63 8-6

Lee scripted another terrific comeback win with Rohan in crucial match against Serbia ... Our pair lost the first set in 18 minutes without much fight ... In the second set Lee-Rohan showed improvement but lost in tie-break against big serving Serbian pair ... At that time Indian pair was only one set away from losing the match and Davis cup tie ... Rohan-Lee showed tremendous fighting spirit from here and won next two sets with identical 6-3 score ... Both pairs played cautiously in the decider but Indian pair take crucial break in 14th game for winning this match after 3 hours match ... This is important win for India as our pair takes tie for another day and giving some fighting chance for Somiand Buji.

Shooting News

At 51st ISSF World Championship - All Events, Granada, Spain

Disappointing day in 50m Rifle 3 Positions Men event as Sanjeev Rajput finished on 28th position with 1167 pts and Gagan Narang finished on 32nd position with 1166 pts ... Chain Singh was finished on 42nd position with 1162 pts.

Wrestling News

At 2014 World Championship, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Greco-Roman - 59kg
[R1] Ravinder SINGH (IND) l Kazuma KURAMOTO (JPN) 1-4

Greco-Roman - 71kg
[R1] K.K. YADAV (IND) bt Vojtech JAKUS (SVK) 5-3

[R2] K.K. YADAV (IND) l Demeu ZHADRAYEV (KAZ) 0-8

Greco-Roman - 80kg
[R1] Harpreet SINGH (IND) l Evgeny SALEEV (RUS) 0-8

Repechage - GR - 80 kg
[R1] Harpreet SINGH (IND) bt Jonas BOSSERT (SUI) 6-1

[R2] Harpreet SINGH (IND) l Bozo STARCEVIC (CRO) 0-5

Greco-Roman - 98kg
[R1] Hardeep SINGH (IND) bt Akira OSAKA (JPN) 4-1

[R2] Hardeep SINGH (IND) l Ardo ARUSAAR (EST) 1-4

Overall decent performance by our second string Greco-Roman wrestlers.

Badminton News

At $50K Yonex-Sunrise Indonesian Masters 2014, Palembang

[R1] (6) Sai Praneeth B. (IND,61) bt Siswanto (INA,215) 21-10 21-9
[R1] (5) H. S. Prannoy (IND,43) bt Akbar Panji (INA,490) 21-14 21-14
[R1] (14) Ajay Jayaram (IND,69) bt Kaesar Akbar (INA,384) 21-5 21-4
[R1] (4) Anand Pawar (IND,46) bt Nizar Muhammad (INA,827) 21-6 21-7

[R1] Sanjeeth S. (IND)/ Jagadish Yadav (IND) l (7) Ronald Alexander (INA)/ Edi Subaktiar (INA) 21-18 9-21 13-21

[R2] (6) Sai Praneeth B. (IND,61) bt Kian Meng Tan (MAS,217) 21-19 18-21 21-17
[R2] (5) H. S. Prannoy (IND,43) bt Muhammad Bayu Pangisthu (INA,439) 21-17 25-27 21-18
[R2] (14) Ajay Jayaram (IND,69) bt Alamsyah Yunus (INA,168) 13-21 21-19 21-16
[R2] (4) Anand Pawar (IND,46) bt Joo Ven Soong (MAS,216) 21-19 21-15

[R3] (6) Sai Praneeth B. (IND,61) bt (14) Ajay Jayaram (IND,69) 21-16 14-21 23-21
[R3] (5) H. S. Prannoy (IND,43) bt (16) Sukamta Evert (INA,125) 21-18 13-21 21-15
[R3] (4) Anand Pawar (IND,46) l Mahbub Thomi Azizan (INA,196) 20-22 19-21

[QF] (6) Sai Praneeth B. (IND,61) l (9) Daren Liew (MAS,67) 15-21 16-21
[QF] (5) H. S. Prannoy (IND,43) bt (15) Riyanto Subagja (INA,116) 21-13 21-19

[SF] (5) H. S. Prannoy (IND,43) bt (9) Daren Liew (MAS,67) 21-14 14-21 21-14

[F] (5) H. S. Prannoy (IND,43) vs Firman Abdul Kholik (INA,UNR)

Another week another final for Prannoy ... Prannoy having terrific chance of winning the title as he is facing Indonesian junior #1 Firman Abdul Kholik in the final ... Sai Praneeth also reached in the quarters.

Tennis News

At Davis Cup - World Group play-off 2014, Bengaluru, India

India vs Serbia 0-2

Day One
[R1] Yuki Bhambri (IND,153) l Dusan Lajivic (SRB,61) 36 26 57
[R2] Somdev Devvarman (IND,144) l Filip Krajinovic (SRB,107) 16 64 36 26

India is in deep shit after first day in their Davis cup tie against Serbia after losing both the singles ... In the first match Yuki failed to raise the game as he made 59 unforced errors in this match and managed to convert only 2 break points from 9 chances ... In the third set he had respectable score against Lajivic ... In the second match I had lot more hope but Buji was flat in the first set to lose it easily ... In the second set he raised to win it but after that Buji's game went down ... Krajinovic take full advantage to win next two sets comfortably ... So after day one Serbia in driving seat and we need miracle of tremendous improvement in performance by Indians ... I doubt but at least hoping some face saving win by Lee-Rohan in tomorrow's doubles.
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At $75K Istanbul Challenger, Turkey

[SF] (4) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Marcus Daniell (NZL) l (1) Colin Fleming (GBR)/ Jonathan Marray (GBR) 26 36

Divij-Marcus fail to raise game against top-seed British pair for one-sided loss.

Shooting News

At 51st ISSF World Championship - All Events, Granada, Spain

Today our shooters were off-colors in all three events ... Favorites in 10m Air Pistol Women event, Heena Sidhu and Rahi Sarnobat finishes disappointingly on 16th and 72nd positions ... Heena scored 581 pts and Rahi scored 372 pts, Shweta Chaudhry squeezed in between on 68th position with 373 pts ... In 50m Rifle 3 Positions Women also, Lajja Gauswami ended on #16 with 583 pts ... Anjali Bhagwat finished on #47 with 575 pts ... In Trap Women event our single player fail to finish in top-30 ... Our all three shooters scored identical 67 hits for finishing on #35 Seema Tomar, #36 Shreyasi Singh and #39 Shagun Chowdhary.

Wrestling News

At 2014 World Championship, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Greco-Roman - 66kg
[R1] Sandeep Tulsi YADAV (IND) bt Matous MORBITZER (CZE) 5-2

[R2] Sandeep Tulsi YADAV (IND) l Hasan ALIYEV (AZE) 5-6

Greco-Roman - 75kg
[R1] Gurpreet Singh (IND) bt Amanaly ATAYEV (TKM) 8-6
[R2] Gurpreet Singh (IND) bt Ricardo GIL (ESP) 12-4
[R3] Gurpreet Singh (IND) bt Petr NOVAK (CZE) 9-2

[QF] Gurpreet Singh (IND) l Zurabi DATUNASHVILI (GEO) 5-7

Greco-Roman - 85kg
[R1] Manoj KUMAR (IND) l Laimutis ADOMAITIS (LTU) 0-8

Greco-Roman - 130kg
[R1] Dharmender DALAL (IND) l Nurmakhan TINALIYEV (KAZ) 0-6

First encouraging performance by Indian wrestler ... Gurpreet Singh misses a medal match by one bout in 75kg Greco-Roman ... Gurpreet won three bouts including close win against Atayev ... In the quarters he lose very close match against Datunashvili ... In 66kg category Sandeep Yadav loses close second round bout against Aliyev.

Tennis News

At Davis Cup - World Group play-off 2014, Bengaluru, India

India vs Serbia

Day One
[R1] Yuki Bhambri (IND,153) vs Dusan Lajivic (SRB,61)
[R2] Somdev Devvarman (IND,144) vs Filip Krajinovic (SRB,107)

Day Two
[R3] Leander Paes (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) vs Nenad Zomonjic (SRB)/ Ilija Bozolac (SRB)

Day Three
[R4] Somdev Devvarman (IND,144) vs Dusan Lajivic (SRB,61)
[R5] Yuki Bhambri (IND,153) vs Filip Krajinovic (SRB,107)

India is having chance in this tie after Novak Djokovic withdrawal from this tie ... But still our players need to perform above their ranking ... Buji is coming out of bad form and other hand Yuki is recovering from carer threatening injury ... Still hoping for upset.
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At $75K Istanbul Challenger, Turkey

[QF] (4) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Marcus Daniell (NZL) bt Malek Jaziri (TUN)/ Jimmy Wang (TPE) 63 64

[SF] (4) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Marcus Daniell (NZL) vs (1) Colin Fleming (GBR)/ Jonathan Marray (GBR)

Comfortable straight sets win for Divij-Daniell against singles specialists Jaziri and Wang ... In the semis they r facing tough challenge of top British pair.

Shooting News

At 51st ISSF World Championship - All Events, Granada, Spain

50m Rifle Prone Men
6. Gagan Narang (IND) 124.2

Gagan Narang misses Olympics quota place by 0.6 points when he finishes sixth in 50m Rifle Prone Men event ... I was thinking top-6 shooters out of the 8 finalists were awarded an Olympic Quota place but in this event they awarded to top 5.

Before that Gagan finished 7th in qualifying 625.5 pts to qualify for the final ... Hariom Singh finished on #45 with 620.9 pts ... In the final Gagan became third shooter to get eliminated when his score was 0.6 pt less than 5th number shooter.

In 10m Air Pistol Men event, Prakash Nanjappa misses Olympics quota place by 1 point as all finalists receive Olympic quota as two are already secured quota in 50m Air Pistol ... Prakash and Jitu Rai were unlucky as they missed the final by a single point as both ended on 9th and 10th places respectively with 581 pts ... Om Prakash finished on #56th with 572 pts.

Wrestling News

At 2014 World Championship, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Freestyle Women - 53kg
[R1] Nirmala DEVI (IND) l Sumiya ERDENECHIMEG (MGL) 0-4

Freestyle Women - 58kg
[R1] SARITA (IND) l Lisset ANTES (ECU) 2-6

Freestyle Women - 63kg
[R1] Navjot KAUR (IND) l Danielle Suzanne LAPPAGE (CAN) by TF, 0-10

Freestyle Women - 75kg
[R1] Anshu TOMAR (IND) l Stanka ZLATEVA (BUL) 0-2 by VT - 01:39

Not total one-sided losses for Indian girls.

Tennis News

At $75K Istanbul Challenger, Turkey

[R1] (4) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Marcus Daniell (NZL) bt (WC) Baris Erguden (TUR)/ Anil Yuksel (TUR) 46 63 10-5

[QF] (4) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Marcus Daniell (NZL) vs Malek Jaziri (TUN)/ Jimmy Wang (TPE)

Divij-Marcus need comeback after losing the first set ... After losing the first set they dominated second and match tie-breaks against local pair.
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At $15K Canada F10 Futures, Toronto

[QF] Sumit NAGAL (IND)/ Harry BOURCHIER (AUS) l (4) Farris Fathi GOSEA (GBR)/ Eric QUIGLEY (USA) 26 46

Comfortable win for 4th seeds against this young pair ... Next week also Sumit is playing in Canadian futures.

Shooting News

At 2014 World Championship, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

In Trap men event yesterday after four rounds Manavjit Singh Sandhu was tied for top position with perfect 100 score ... But today in the final round he managed 23 hits from 25 so he tied for 5th position scoring 123 hits with 7 other players ... In the qualifying for final 2 places for the final he got eliminated second ... Our other 2 players Kynan Chenai and Prithviraj Tondaiman scored 119 hits to finished on 46th and 48th respectively.

In 25m Pistol Women event our players has disappointing outing ... Anisa Sayyed finished on 14th place with 581 pts ... Rahi Sarnobat finished on 21st position with 579 pts and Pushpanjali Rana ended on 53rd position with 568 pts.

Wrestling News

At 2014 World Championship, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Freestyle Women - 48kg
[R1] Priyanka SINGH (IND) l Emilia Alina VUC (ROU) by TF, 0-10

Freestyle Women - 55kg
[R1] Pooja DHANDA (IND) l Battsetseg ALTANSETSEG (MGL) by TF, 0-10

Freestyle Women - 60kg
[R1] Sakshi MALIK (IND) bt Anta SAMBOU (SEN) 15-2
[R2] Sakshi MALIK (IND) l Petra Maarit OLLI (FIN) 3-5

Freestyle Women - 69kg
[R1] Suman KUNDU (IND) l Natalia VOROBEVA (RUS) by TF, 0-10

In women's section also we r having forgettable performance ... Only Sakshi Malik managed to win a match.

Tennis News

At $15K Canada F10 Futures, Toronto

[R1] (Q) Sumit NAGAL (IND,1742) l (2) Dimitar Kutrovsky (BUL,368) 67(2) 26

Doubles
[R1] Sumit NAGAL (IND)/ Harry BOURCHIER (AUS) bt (WC) Egor KOLEGANOV (RUS)/ David VOLFSON (CAN) 64 75

Overall fighting performance by young Sumit in his loss against top-400 player ... In the first set at one time Sumit was 3-1 up but he failed to keep that advantage before losing the set in tie-break ... In the doubles Sumit is having winning start with his Australian partner.

Shooting News

At 51st ISSF World Championship - All Events, Granada, Spain


50m Pistol Men
Gold - Jongoh Jin (KOR) 192.3 pts
Silver - Jitu Rai (IND) 191.1 pts
Bronze - Wei Pang (CHN) 172.6 pts

10m Air Rifle Women
8 Ayonika Paul (IND) 80.9

Jitu Rai become the first Indian shooter to capture Olympics quota place for the 2016 Rio Olympics when he wins the silver at World championships ... Jitu continues with his recent golden run to win Silver in World championships ... In the qualifying Jitu Rai finished on 3rd position with 565 pts but his other 2 partners ended below in standing, #33 Gurpal Singh 550 pts and #38 Om Prakash 548 pts.

Ayonika Paul qualified for the final topping qualifying round scoring 420.8 pts, but unfortunately she was become first player to eliminate in the final. So she misses Olympics quota place .. Our other two shooters were way behind, #44 Kiranjit Kaur 412.5 pts and #67 Raj Chaudhary 410.3 pts.

Wrestling News

At 2014 World Championship, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Freestyle - 61kg
[R1] Rahul MANN (IND) bt Ivan GUIDEA (ROU) 8-5
[R2] Rahul MANN (IND) l Yowlys BONNE (CUB) by TF, 0-10

Freestyle - 65kg
[R1] Amit DHANKHAR (IND) l Azamat NURYKAU (BLR) 4-7

Freestyle - 74kg
[R1] BALRAJ (IND) l Alexandru BURCA (MDA) by TF, 0-10

Freestyle - 97kg
[R1] SUMIT (IND) l Reza Mohammad Ali YAZDANI (IRI) by TF, 0-10

Another forgettable day for 2nd string Indians players ... Only Rahul Mann managed to win a match.

Tennis News

At $75K Istanbul Challenger, Turkey

[R1] (3) Purav Raja (IND)/ Andreas Siljeström (SWE) l Tatsuma Ito (JPN)/ Yasutaka Uchiyama (JPN) 57 26
[R1] (4) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Marcus Daniell (NZL) vs (WC) Baris Erguden (TUR)/ Anil Yuksel (TUR)

Good to see Divij and Purav r playing in Turkey though with different partners ... But 3rd seed Purav-Andreas lose their first round match against Japanese pair in straight sets.
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At $15K Canada F10 Futures, Toronto

[Q1] (6) Sumit NAGAL (IND) bye
[Q2] (6) Sumit NAGAL (IND) bt Xiuneng WANG (CAN) 60 61
[Q3] (6) Sumit NAGAL (IND) bt Egor KOLEGANOV (RUS) 63 16 62

[R1] (Q) Sumit NAGAL (IND,1742) vs (2) Dimitar Kutrovsky (BUL,368)

Doubles
[R1] Sumit NAGAL (IND)/ Harry BOURCHIER (AUS) vs (WC) Egor KOLEGANOV (RUS)/ David VOLFSON (CAN)

Sumit Nagal qualify for main-draw but having very tough first round against top-400 Belarus player.