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At $10K ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2016, Hong Kong, China

[SF] Karman Kaur THANDI (IND,568) l (Q) Nudnida LUANGNAM (THA,683) 36 26

Surprised by this scoreline in Kamran's loss against Thai veteran Luangnam ... After losing the first set Karman was up 2-0 but after that she lost next 6 games.

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At $10K ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2016, Hong Kong, China

[QF] Karman Kaur THANDI (IND,568) bt Yuki Kristina CHIANG (USA,648) 62 64

[SF] Karman Kaur THANDI (IND,568) vs (Q) Nudnida LUANGNAM (THA,683)

Good win by Karman against experienced American girl Chiang in straight sets ... Next she is facing Thai veteran Luangnam, this will be some test for Karman.

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At $10K ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2016, Hong Kong, China

[R2] Karman Kaur THANDI (IND,568) bt (WC) Kwan Yau NG (HKG,1033) 61 62

[QF] Karman Kaur THANDI (IND,568) vs Yuki Kristina CHIANG (USA,648)

Another comfortable win for Karman against local wild-card player losing only 3 games ... Next she is facing American girl Chiang for place in the semis..

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At $10K ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2016, Hong Kong, China

[R1] Karman Kaur THANDI (IND,568) bt (WC) Ching WU (HKG,1249) 63 63

[R2] Karman Kaur THANDI (IND,568) vs (WC) Kwan Yau NG (HKG,1033)

Expected comfortable winning start for Karman against local wild-card player ... Next she is facing another local wild-card player, who scored upset win over 3rd seed Chinese player in the first round.

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At $10K Hong Kong F4 Futures, Hong Kong, China

Singles Final
(3) Yuki Bhambri (IND,530) bt (2) Shintaro Imai (JPN,499) 64 75

Yuki lifted another futures level title with straight sets win over his Japanese opponent ... Yuki wasn't in his fluent best but raised his game whenever it was required ... Still long way from achieving his pre-injury game and fitness.

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At $10K Hong Kong F4 Futures, Hong Kong, China

[SF] (3) Yuki Bhambri (IND,530) bt (1) Shuichi Sekiguchi (JPN,337) 63 64

[F] (3) Yuki Bhambri (IND,530) vs (2) Shintaro Imai (JPN,499)

Yuki in the final with comfortable win over top-seed Japanese oppoent Shuichi Sekiguchi ... In both sets Yuki did not tested by Shuichi ... In the final, he is facing 2nd seed Japanese oppoent Shintaro Imai.

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At $10K Hong Kong F4 Futures, Hong Kong, China

[QF] (3) Yuki Bhambri (IND,530) bt (6) Yecong He (CHN,631) 62 60

[SF] (3) Yuki Bhambri (IND,530) vs (1) Shuichi Sekiguchi (JPN,337)

Yuki continues with his dominance over his opponents in this futures ... He won comfortable against Yecong losing only 2 games in the match ... Next he will face his first test against Sekiguchi, who is top-350 player and former top-275 player.

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At Davis Cup 2017 - Asia/ Oceania Group I - 1st Round, Pune, India

Indian Team - Saketh Myneni, Ramkumar Ramanathan, Yuki Bhambri, Leander Paes, Prajnesh Gunneswaran
Non-playing Captain - Anand Amritraj
Coach - Zeeshan Ali

In big change All India Tennis Association has appointed Mahesh Bhupathi as the non-playing captain for the India Davis Cup team ... Anand Amritraj will continue to hold the post for first Davis Cup tie of the year against New Zealand in the Asia Oceania zone in Pune ... So after this tie Mahesh will take helm of the team.

The committee also announced team for New Zeland, giving Lee and Saki pairing another chance to play togather ... This 5 members team will trimmed down to 4 members before the tie.

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At $10K Hong Kong F4 Futures, Hong Kong, China

[R2] (3) Yuki BHAMBRI (IND,530) bt (WC) Ching LAM (HKG,UNR) 61 61
[R2] Karunuday SINGH (IND,1433) l (8) Kento TAKEUCHI (JPN,635) 36 46
[R2] (WC) Karan RASTOGI (HKG,UNR) l (2) Shintaro IMAI (JPN,499) 75 46 67(4)

[QF] (3) Yuki Bhambri (IND,530) vs (6) Yecong He (CHN,631)

Yuki scored dominating win over local wild-card player ... In the quarters he is facing former top-500 Chinese player ... Other hand Karan lost really close match against top-500 Japanese player after winning the first ... KU must be disappointed with his performance after his loss.

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At $25K ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2016, Navi Mumbai, India

[R2] (WC) Rutuja BHOSALE (IND,NR) l (8) Jia-Jing LU (CHN,259) 26 36
[R2] Ankita RAINA (IND,271) l (Q) Na Ri KIM (KOR,446) 57 26

Our singles challenge got over in the second round ... Disappointed by Ankita's loss after her excellent upset win.

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At $25K ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2016, Navi Mumbai, India

[R1] (WC) Snehadevi S REDDY (IND,546) l Noppawan LERTCHEEWAKARN (THA,418) 16 57
[R1] (WC) Rutuja BHOSALE (IND,UNR) bt (Q) Karman Kaur THANDI (IND,582) 62 46 62
[R1] Ankita RAINA (IND,271) bt (3) Conny PERRIN (SUI,181) 60 46 61

[R2] (WC) Rutuja BHOSALE (IND,NR) vs (8) Jia-Jing LU (CHN,259)
[R2] Ankita RAINA (IND,271) vs (Q) Na Ri KIM (KOR,446)

Superb upset win by Ankita over top-200 Swiss player Conny Perrin ... After comfortably winning the first set Ankita lost the second set but she recovered well for winning the final set dominantly ... Next she is facing Korean qualifier.

For me Rutuja's win over Karman is big upset considering Karman's recent performance but still much needed win for Rutuja ... Now hoping that she will build on this ... Next she is facing 8th seed Chinese opponent.

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At $10K Hong Kong F4 Futures, Hong Kong, China

[R1] Karunuday SINGH (IND,1433) bt (Q) Kazuma KAWACHI (JPN,2015) 75 62

[R2] (3) Yuki BHAMBRI (IND,530) vs (WC) Ching LAM (HKG,UNR)
[R2] Karunuday SINGH (IND,1433) vs (8) Kento TAKEUCHI (JPN,635)
[R2] (WC) Karan RASTOGI (HKG,UNR) vs (2) Shintaro IMAI (JPN,499)

Expected win for KU but next he and Karan having tough match against seeded Japanese players.

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At $25K ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2016, Navi Mumbai, India

[R1] (WC) Mihika YADAV (IND,885) l Valentyna IVAKHNENKO (UKR,321) 64 46 26
[R1] (WC) Prerna BHAMBRI (IND,619) l (Q) Ji-Hee CHOI (KOR,450) 46 06

Expected losses but Mihika gave fighting performance against top-325 Ukrainian player.

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At $10K Hong Kong F4 Futures, Hong Kong, China

[R1] (3) Yuki BHAMBRI (IND,530) bt Rhett PURCELL (GBR,1128) 63 61
[R1] Koonwar GUPTA (IND,UNR) l Jack WONG (HKG,948) 16 26
[R1] (WC) Karan RASTOGI (HKG,UNR) bt (Q) Denton HO (HKG,UNR) 63 62

[R2] (3) Yuki BHAMBRI (IND,530) vs (WC) Ching LAM (HKG,UNR)

Good to see winning start for Yuki, though as per onlooker he was rusty in the beginning ... He needs more match practice before Australian open qualifying.

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At Junior Hockey World Cup 2016, Lucknow, India

Coutesy to Akashwani

Championship Match
India bt Belgium 2-1 (2-0)
Goal Scorers - Gurjant Singh (IND) 8', Simranjeet Singh (IND) 22' and Fabrice Van Bockrijck (BEL) 70' PC

INDIAN BOYS ARE JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPIONS!!

Our boys gave a stunning performance for lifting our 2nd Junior World Championships trophy ... We deserved to lift the trophy after a superb performance in the final ... After 15 yrs we managed to lift the second title and with this, we become first host nation to lift Junior World Championship.

Our boys started putting pressure on Belgian side from that start and earned a couple of penalty corners but failed to capitalized ... India took lead through MoM of the final, Gurjant smashed through a reverse hit over the right shoulder of the Belgian goalkeeper, that was amazing hit ... Indian kept putting pressure and in 22nd minute Simranjeet's reverse hit went low from the right of Belgian goalkeeper to give 2-0 lead ... After that, Belgium tried hard but our defense managed to keep the 2-0 advantage at half-time ... The second half was well contested as Belgian players were trying but our boys also gave a splendid performance ... We missed few chances but our player's intensity was very high ... In dying moments we conceded penalty corner and Belgium converted but it was too late.

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At $25K ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2016, Navi Mumbai, India

[R1] (WC) Snehadevi S REDDY (IND,546) vs Noppawan LERTCHEEWAKARN (THA,418)
[R1] (Q) Karman Kaur THANDI (IND,582) vs (WC) Rutuja BHOSALE (IND,NR)
[R1] Ankita RAINA (IND,271) vs (3) Conny PERRIN (SUI,181)
[R1] (WC) Mihika YADAV (IND,885) vs Valentyna IVAKHNENKO (UKR,321)
[R1] (WC) Prerna BHAMBRI (IND,619) vs (Q) Ji-Hee CHOI (KOR,450)

Only Karman managed to qualify for main-draw and facing Rutuja in the first round ... Our all other players having tough first round matches.

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At $10K Hong Kong F4 Futures, Hong Kong, China

[R1] (3) Yuki BHAMBRI (IND,530) vs Rhett PURCELL (GBR,1128)
[R1] Karunuday SINGH (IND,1433) vs (Q) Kazuma KAWACHI (JPN,2024)
[R1] Koonwar GUPTA (IND,UNR) vs Jack WONG (HKG,948)

Good to see Yuki and KU r playing here ... Karan Rastogi is also playing here from Hong Kong.

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At Dubai World Superseries Finals 2016, UAE

[SF] PV Sindhu (IND,8) l Ji Hyun Sung (KOR,5) 15-21 21-18 15-21

Sindhu lost in three games against Sung in the semis of Superseries Finals ... In the first game, Sung took a 0-4 lead and kept that advantage throughout the game for winning it ... In the second game, Sindhi fought back and managed to play her game ... With the good net game and attacking game she managed to win it ... In the final game, Sung played smartly and managed to keep Sindhu back of the court so Sindhu failed to use her attacking game plan ... Sung again took 0-4 lead which she extended to 4-10 and then she kept the advantage for winning this game comfortably.

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At $10K Qatar F6 Futures, Doha

Singles Final
(1) Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND,248) bt (2) Sebastian OFNER (AUT,302) 75 63

Back to back titles for RamK in Qatar after again beating Ofner ... RamK won the first set with a single break when he broke Ofner in 12th game ... In the second set, Ofner broke RamK in 3rd game to lead 1-3 ... After that RamK won consecutive five games for winning the match in that he broke Ofner twice in 6th and 8th games.

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At Junior Hockey World Cup 2016, Lucknow, India

Semi Finals
India bt Australia 2-2 (0-1) 4-2 shoot-out
Goal Scorers - Gurjant Singh (IND) 42' and Mandeep Singh (IND) 48' and Tom Craig (AUS) 14', Lachlan Sharp (AUS) 57'

Indian boys came from a goal down to pip Australia 4-2 via shootout in a thrilling contest and enter the final of the men's Junior Hockey World Cup after 15 years ... In the final Indian boys r facing Belgium.

Indians were down early as Tom Craig scored in first 15 mins and Aussie boys kept that lead till half-time ... In the second-half, our boys started positively ... We scored two skillful field goals through Gurjant Singh and Mandeep Singh in six minutes ... But we conceded a soft goal due to miscommunication between our defense to equalize ... So the score was 2-all at the end of regulation time ... In the shoot-out, goalkeeper Vikas Dahiya rose to the occasion and made two fantastic saves to deny Australia's Matthew Bird and Sharp ... On the other hand the Indians, were clinical in the shoot-out with skipper Harjeet Singh, Harmanpreet Singh, Sumit and Manpreet (Jr) finding the back of the net past the Australian custodian.

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At Dubai World Superseries Finals 2016, UAE

Group B
[M3] PV Sindhu (IND,8) bt Carolina Marin (ESP,7) 21-17 21-13

[SF] PV Sindhu (IND,8) vs Ji Hyun Sung (KOR,5)

Sindhu qualifies for the semis with coonvincing win over former WR #1 Carolina Marin ... After wiinning the first game Sindhu dominated the second ... She is facing Group A winner Korean Ji Hyun Sung.

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At $10K Qatar F6 Futures, Doha

[SF] (1) Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND,248) bt (3) Edoardo EREMIN (ITA,362) 3-0 retd.

[F] (1) Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND,248) vs (2) Sebastian OFNER (AUT,302)

Due to injury Eremin retired from the match after three games ... Again last week's final repeat between RamK and Ofner.

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At Junior Hockey World Cup 2016, Lucknow, India

Quarter Finals
India bt Spain 2-1 (0-1)
Goal Scorers - Simranjeet Singh (IND) 57' PC, Harmanpreet Singh (IND) 66' PC and Marc Serrahima (ESP) 22' PC

India were lucky for completing this win as they struggled against solid Spanish defence ... Spain took early lead through penalty corner and other hand our struggled on converting PC continued in this match ... From the start I m saying, this poor PC conversion rate can cost us in big matches, till now we managed to convert only 5 from 26 PCs ... Next we r facing Aussie boys for place in the final.

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At Dubai World Superseries Finals 2016, UAE

Group B
[M2] PV Sindhu (IND,10) l Sun Yu (CHN,3) 15-21 17-21

Sindhu lost in straight games against Sun Yu and now tough challenge of beating WR #1 Carolina Marín in her last match for any hope on the semis..

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At $25K ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2016, Pune, India

[QF] (WC) Karman Kaur THANDI (IND,582) l Polina MONOVA (RUS,341) 36 67(3)

Karman lost in straight sets against her Russian opponent, in both sets she was break up but failed to take advantage ... So with that her decent run ended in the quarters.

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At $10K Qatar F6 Futures, Doha

[QF] (1) Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND,248) bt Scott CLAYTON (GBR,721) 61 75

[SF] (1) Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND,248) vs (3) Edoardo EREMIN (ITA,362)

Another comfortable win in the quarters against British player ... Next he is facing 3rd seed Italian Eremin.

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At £366K Scottish Open 2016, Glasgow, Scotland

[R2] Aditya Mehta (IND,103) l Noppon Saengkham (THA,75) 2-4 (8-91, 94(60)-14, 14-78(72), 67-24, 60(56)-69, 27-69)

Aditya ended the season on a sour note as he again failed to score back to back wins ... Both players shared early four frames for 2-all but afterward Noppon Saengkham played smartly for winning the fifth and kept that momentum for winning the sixth.

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At Dubai World Superseries Finals 2016, UAE

Group B
[M1] PV Sindhu (IND,10) bt Akane Yamaguchi (JPN,8) 12-21 21-8 21-15

After losing the first game Sindhu made strong comeback for winning next two games in her first group match against Japanese Yamaguchi ... Tomorrow she is facing Chinese girl Sun Yu, who today defeated WR #1 Carolina Marín.

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At $25K ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2016, Pune, India

[R2] (Q) Nidhi CHILUMULA (IND,852) l (1) Conny PERRIN (SUI,181) 26 26
[R2] (WC) Karman Kaur THANDI (IND,582) bt Anastasia GASANOVA (RUS,387) 62 16 62
[R2] (WC) Natasha PALHA (IND,758) l Polina MONOVA (RUS,341) 26 46

[QF] (WC) Karman Kaur THANDI (IND,582) vs Polina MONOVA (RUS,341)

Karman scored another three sets upset win over Russian top-400 player Gasanova for entering into the quarter finals ... Next she is facing another Russian Polina Monova, who defeated Natasha in straight sets ... Conny proved too strong for Nidhi.

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At $10K Qatar F6 Futures, Doha

[R2] (1) Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND,248) bt Mateusz TERCZYNSKI (POL,995) 63 63

[QF] (1) Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND,248) vs Scott CLAYTON (GBR,721)

Expected comfortable straight sets win for RamK against Polish opponent ... Next he is facing Britisher Scott Clayton.

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At £366K Scottish Open 2016, Glasgow, Scotland

[R1] Aditya Mehta (IND,103) bt Yan Bingtao (CHN,70) 4-1 (62-34, 72(64)-74, 61-10, 74-41, 67-61)

[R2] Aditya Mehta (IND,103) vs Noppon Saengkham (THA,75)

Aditya started with the upset win over top-70 Chinese opponent Bingtao ... Almost all frames were closely fought but Aditya managed to win crucial points for a win in 5 frames ... Next, he is facing Thai opponent Noppon Saengkham.

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At $25K ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2016, Pune, India

[R1] (WC) Karman Kaur THANDI (IND,582) bt (8) Valeriya STRAKHOVA (UKR,275) 26 62 64
[R1] (7) Ankita RAINA (IND,271) l Katy DUNNE (GBR,316) 36 62 26
[R1] (WC) Rutuja BHOSALE (IND,UNR) l (Q) Anastasia PRIBYLOVA (RUS,481) 57 57
[R1] (WC) Dhruthi TATACHAR VENUGOPAL (IND,577) l Ana VESELINOVIC (MNE,415) 57 16

[R2] (Q) Nidhi CHILUMULA (IND,852) vs (1) Conny PERRIN (SUI,181)
[R2] (WC) Natasha PALHA (IND,758) vs Polina MONOVA (RUS,341)
[R2] (WC) Karman Kaur THANDI (IND,582) vs Anastasia GASANOVA (RUS,387)

Today only Karman managed to score upset win over top-275 Ukrainian player ... After losing the first set Karman made excellent comeback for winning next two sets ... Next she is facing top-400 Russian player Gasanova.

Surprising loss of Ankita against Britisher Katy ... After losing the first set Ankita tried comeback winning the second but Katy again took control in the third for winning this match ... Previously Ankita gave better performance in Pune tournaments, that's why it is surprising ... Rutuja gave fighting performance against top-500 player in her loss ... Dhruti also gave decent performance in her loss.

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At $10K Qatar F6 Futures, Doha

[R1] (1) Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND,248) bt Aoxiong WANG (CHN,1341) 61 60

[R2] (1) Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND,248) vs Mateusz TERCZYNSKI (POL,995)

Unnecessarily RamK is playing this week's futures ... He needs to rest his body and work on his game under coaches instead he continues playing in Qatar.

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At At Junior Hockey World Cup 2016, Lucknow, India

Group D
India bt South Africa 2-1 (1-1)
Goal Scorers - Harjeet Singh (IND) 11', Mandeep Singh (IND) 55' and Kyle Lion-Cachet (RSA) 28' PC

In this match also .our struggle on penalty corner conversion and in trapping continued ... I really hope this will not cost us in knock-out ... We r facing Spain in the quarter-finals.

Our captain Harjeet gave us early lead but we failed to take advatage of extending lead despite so many circle pentrations and couple of penalty corners ... South African eqalized in the late of second half through penalty corner conversion ... In the second half, again our players missed many chances before Mandeep scored to give us alead ... We defnded last 15 mins for completing win and winning this Group D

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At $25K ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2016, Pune, India

[R1] (Q) Nidhi CHILUMULA (IND,852) bt Ji-Hee CHOI (KOR,451) 76(3) 57 64
[R1] (WC) Natasha PALHA (IND,758) bt (Q) Stefanie TAN (SGP,465) 76(2) 63
[R1] (WC) Karman Kaur THANDI (IND,582) vs (8) Valeriya STRAKHOVA (UKR,275)
[R1] (7) Ankita RAINA (IND,271) vs Katy DUNNE (GBR,316)
[R1] (WC) Rutuja BHOSALE (IND,UNR) vs (Q) Anastasia PRIBYLOVA (RUS,481)
[R1] (WC) Dhruthi TATACHAR VENUGOPAL (IND,577) vs Ana VESELINOVIC (MNE,415)

Nidhi and Natasha started with contrasting upset wins over top-500 players ... Nidhi won really colse match against top-450 Korean player and Natasha defeated her Singaporean opponent in straight sets.

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At €500K Omega Dubai Ladies Masters 2016, UAE

Courtesy of http://ladieseuropeantour.com/

T3 Aditi Ashok (IND) 70 70 70 -6 € 26,250.00

Aditi scored consistent three 2 under rounds for finishing on tied 3rd in this season-ending Dubai Masters ... So very solid end for a fantastic rookie season for Aditi .. Aditi also finished on 2nd position with € 206,664.97 prize money in 2016 Order of Merit on the European Ladies tour ... Also, Aditi sealed her sensational first season on the Ladies European Tour by collecting her Omega watch as the winner of the LET’s Rookie of the Year Award.

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At $2M UBS Hong Kong Open 2016, Hong Kong

T29 Arjun Atwal (IND) 70 70 66 71 -3 $16,628.57
T45 Gaganjeet Bhullar (IND) 69 69 71 71 PAR $10,000.00
T54 Shiv Kapur (IND) 68 69 68 77 +2 $7,000.00

After the third round, Shiv Kapur was in top-15 with 5 under but 7 over last round dumped him out of top-50 finish ... Arjun needed good positioning to retain his Asian tour card so with the top-30 finish he managed to retain his Asian tour card for 2017 season.

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At $100K Men's St George's Hill Classic 2016, Weybridge, Surrey, England

[R2] Saurav Ghosal (IND,22) l Daryl Selby (ENG,16) 5-11, 3-11, 6-11 (45m)

Surprisingly Britisher Daryl Selby proved too strong for Saurav in this match.

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At Junior Hockey World Cup 2016, Lucknow, India

Group D
India bt England 5-3 (2-1)
Goal Scorers - Parvinder Singh (IND) 24', Armaan Qureshi (IND) 35', Harmanpreet Singh (IND) 37' PC, Simranjeet Singh (IND) 47', Varun Kumar (IND) 59' PC and Jack Clee (ENG) 10', Will Calnan (ENG) 63', Edward Horler (ENG) 67' PC

British boys took early lead through brilliant chip from Clee over the goalkeeper ... After that Our boys kept trying and equalized through Parvinder's field goal ... Before stroke of half-time Armaan scored opportunist goal to give us lead ... Harmanpreet gave us 2 goals cushion after converting 4th penalty corner in early of the second half ... Our boys kept playing attacking game and they scored another to extend lead through Simranjeet ... Before hour mark Varun converted another penalty corner for inasseccible lead to us ... Again a lapse of concentration in the final ten minutes as England scored two goals to reduce the lead .. We need to avoid this in big matches.

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At $10K Qatar F5 Futures 2016, Doha

Singles Final
(1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,249) bt (2) Sebastian Ofner (AUT,312) 75 63

RamK justified his ranking and won the final in straight sets ... With that RamK defended much needed 18 ranking points from last year to remain inside top-250 ... And I feel that will be enough for him to find himself in Australian open 2017 qualifying list.

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At $120K Korea Masters Championships, Seogwipo, South Korea (Grand Prix Gold)

[SF] Parupalli Kashyap (IND,95) l (1) Son Wan Ho (KOR,6) 21-23 16-21

Kashyap lost in straight games against WR #6 Korean Son Wan Ho ... Kashyap had his chances as he was leading most part of the first game ... He also had 2 game points at 20-19 and 21-20 but failed to convert ... Son took advantage of that for winning the game and then comfortably winning the second game ... Still good performance from Kashyap as he reached his first Grand Prix Gold event semi-final after his long injury return.

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At German Masters Qualifiers 2016, Barnsley, England

[QR2] Aditya Mehta (IND,103) l Thepchaiya Un-Nooh (THA,32) 4-5 (118(86)-0, 0-123(122), 21-66, 82-9, 77-70(64), 28-101(63), 55-21, 21-112(112), 37-84)

Aditya had a close loss against #31 ranked Thai player Thepchaiya Un-Nooh in 9 frames ... In this match both players scored 100+ breaks but after taking 4-3 frames lead Aditya failed to close this match ... Other hand Un-Nooh scored another 100+ break and managed pressure on Aditya for winning the match.

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At $120K Korea Masters Championships, Seogwipo, South Korea (Grand Prix Gold)

[R1] Parupalli Kashyap (IND,95) bt Kang Min Woo (KOR,UNR) w/o
[R2] Parupalli Kashyap (IND,95) bt (4) Wang Tzu Wei (TPE,30) 21-15 9-21 21-19
[R3] Parupalli Kashyap (IND,95) bt Zhou Zeqi (CHN,277) 21-11 13-21 21-8

[QF] Parupalli Kashyap (IND,95) bt (6) Jeon Hyeok Jin (KOR,44) 18-21 21-8 21-16

[SF] Parupalli Kashyap (IND,95) vs (1) Son Wan Ho (KOR,6)

Kashyap is in the semis of Korean GP Gold tournament ... In the quarter he scored impressive comeback win over top-50 Korean Jeon Hyeok Jin ... Before that he scored good win against top-30 Taiwani player in the second round ... Next, he is having tough challenge of Korean top-10 player Son Wan Ho.

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At $10K ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2015, Solapur, India

[SF] Zeel DESAI (IND) l (2) Anastasia GASANOVA (RUS) 57 57

Zeel's creditable run ended against Gasanova in the semis ... She was leading 4-2 in the first before Gasanova took control of the set ... After losing the first set Zeel kept fighting but in end Gasanova proved better player on the court.

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At $10K Qatar F5 Futures 2016, Doha

[SF] (1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,249) bt (Q) Matthieu Roy (FRA,1271)

[F] (1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,249) vs (2) Sebastian Ofner (AUT,312)

RamK scored comfortable win over Frenchman Matthieu Roy for entering into the final ... In the final he is facing 2nd Austrian Sebastian Ofner.

Snooker News

At German Masters Qualifiers 2016, Barnsley, England

[QR1] Aditya Mehta (IND,103) bt Nigel Bond (ENG,71) 5-4 (0-71, 9-59(53), 67(62)-12, 19-71, 115(102)-0, 91(51)-28, 47-67, 67-31, 69(50)-20)

[QR2] Aditya Mehta (IND,103) vs Thepchaiya Un-Nooh (THA,32)

Aditya scored an impressive comeback win over veteran and former top-5 British player Nigel Bond in a tight match ... Aditya was 0-2 and 1-3 down but he caught with Nigel, 3 frames all ... Nigel won 7th frame to lead 3-4, again Aditya kept his cool for winning final two frames for completing victory ... Next, he is facing #31 ranked Thai player Thepchaiya Un-Nooh.

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At $100K Men's St George's Hill Classic 2016, Weybridge, Surrey, England

[R1] Saurav Ghosal (IND,22) bt (7) Borja Golan (ESP,17) 11-5, 11-7, 10-12, 11-8 (64m)

[R2] Saurav Ghosal (IND,22) vs Daryl Selby (ENG,16)

Saurav started with the upset win over 7th seed Borja in four games ... Next, he is facing Britisher Daryl Selby, who scored the upset win over WR #1 Mohamed Elshorbagy in a marathon match.

Hockey News

At Junior Hockey World Cup 2016, Lucknow, India

Pool D
India bt Canada 4-0 (1-0)
Goal Scorers - Mandeep Singh (IND) 35', Harmanpreet Singh (IND) 46' PC, Varun Kumar (IND) 60', Ajit Pandey (IND) 66'

India started their campaign with a win over Canadian boys ... This match we had to win by at least 10 goals but our forward line struggled in-front of the goal ... We missed numerous chances and waited till last minute of the first half for scoring first goal ... Other worrying part lack of penalty corner specialist as we managed to score only one goal from seven penalty corners ... Our goalkeeper and defenders didn't tested in this match but I feel we need to show improvement by leaps and bounds for winning the World cup.

Tennis News

At $10K ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2015, Solapur, India

[R1] (1) Diana MARCINKEVICA (LAT) bt Dhruthi TATACHAR VENUGOPAL (IND) 75 61
[R1] Kyra SHROFF (IND) bt (Q) Arthi MUNIYAN (IND) 60 60
[R1] Ola ABOU ZEKRY (EGY) bt Pareen SHIVEKAR (IND) 61 61
[R1] (8) Prerna BHAMBRI (IND) bt Amrita MUKHERJEE (IND) 75 62
[R1] (3) Chieh-Yu HSU (TPE) bt Eetee MAHETA (IND) 61 64
[R1] Prarthana G. THOMBARE (IND) bt Sowjanya BAVISETTI (IND) 63 06 61
[R1] Ramya NATARAJAN (IND) bt (Q) Anusha KONDAVEETI (IND) 61 62
[R1] (7) Snehadevi S REDDY (IND) bt Malaika Alex FERNANDES (IND) 61 61
[R1] Nidhi CHILUMULA (IND) bt (Q) Soha SADIQ (IND) 64 63
[R1] Zeel DESAI (IND) bt Kanika VAIDYA (IND) 26 63 75
[R1] (4) Anastasia PRIBYLOVA (RUS) bt (Q) Preethi UJJINI (IND) 63 63
[R1] Karman Kaur THANDI (IND) bt (Q) Vasavi GANESAN (IND) 63 62
[R1] (Q) Sai Samhitha CHAMARTHI (IND) bt (Q) Dakshata GIRISHKUMAR PATEL (IND) 63 75
[R1] (2) Anastasia GASANOVA (RUS) bt Natasha PALHA (IND) 63 60

[R2] (1) Diana MARCINKEVICA (LAT) bt Kyra SHROFF (IND) 61 63
[R2] Ola ABOU ZEKRY (EGY) bt (8) Prerna BHAMBRI (IND) 16 64 61
[R2] (3) Chieh-Yu HSU (TPE) bt Prarthana G. THOMBARE (IND) 64 61
[R2] (7) Snehadevi S REDDY (IND) bt Ramya NATARAJAN (IND) 63 64
[R2] Chanelle VAN NGUYEN (USA) bt Nidhi CHILUMULA (IND) 64 60
[R2] Zeel DESAI (IND) bt (4) Anastasia PRIBYLOVA (RUS) 61 75
[R2] Karman Kaur THANDI (IND) bt Britt GEUKENS (BEL) 36 75 61
[R2] (2) Anastasia GASANOVA (RUS) bt (Q) Sai Samhitha CHAMARTHI (IND) 63 64

[QF] Zeel DESAI (IND) bt Chanelle VAN NGUYEN (USA) 61 5-5 retd
[QF] (2) Anastasia GASANOVA (RUS) bt Karman Kaur THANDI (IND) 75 75

[SF] Zeel DESAI (IND) vs (2) Anastasia GASANOVA (RUS)

Terrific run by Zeel in this ongoing ITF tournament ... She is in the semis with really good upset win over 4th seed Russian player Anastasia Pribylova and former top-20 collegiate player Chanelle Van Nguyen ... In the semis she is facing 2nd seed Russian Anastasia Gasanova, who ended good run of Karman in the quarters.

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At $10K Qatar F5 Futures 2016, Doha

[R1] (1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,249) bt Marek Semjan (SVK,1283) 64 64
[R2] (1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,249) bt Marcin Gawron (POL,671) 76(3) 60
[QF] (1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,249) bt Geoffrey Blancaneaux (FRA,624) 62 62

[SF] (1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,249) vs (Q) Matthieu Roy (FRA,1271)

This week better performance by RamK as top-seed ... Reaching into the semis without dropping the set ... Next he is facing French qualifier.

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At $400K Panasonic Open India 2016, New Delhi

Courtesy Asian tour

1 Mukesh Kumar (IND) 67 69 70 -10 $72,000.00
T2 Jyoti Randhawa (IND) 67 72 68 -9 $34,600.00
T2 Rashid Khan (IND) 67 72 68 -9 $34,600.00
5 Honey Baisoya (IND) 73 69 67 -7 $16,400.00
6 Shankar Das (IND) 71 67 72 -6 $13,320.00
T7 Shamim Khan (IND) 67 74 70 -5 $9,350.00
T7 Sanjeev Kumar (L) (IND) 71 69 71 -5 $9,350.00
T7 Kapil Kumar (IND) 68 72 71 -5 $9,350.00
T7 Khalin Joshi (IND) 67 71 73 -5 $9,350.00
Showing only top-10 Indians from the list.

The veteran Mukesh Kumar had a two-shot advantage heading into the third and final round, closed with a two-under-par 70 for a winning total of 10-under-par 206 at the US$400,000 Asian Tour event, which was earlier reduced to 54 holes due to fog disruptions to claim his first Asian Tour title by one shot ... Mukesh Kumar’s victory made him the oldest winner on the Asian Tour at the age of 51 years and 126 days ... Indian duo Jyoti Randhawa and Rashid Khan closed with matching 68s to share second place.

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At LPGA and Symetra Tour Qualifying School 2016 - Stage III, Daytona Beach, Florida, USA

T24 Aditi Ashok (IND) 73 70 71 71 73 -2

As per rule, Players that finish in the top 20 (no ties) will earn LPGA Tour membership in category 12 while those that finish 21-45 (including ties) will earn membership in category 17. If necessary, there will be a playoff for the final spots in category 12 (full membership) only.

Aditi failed to take advantage of the easier Jones course so she struggled to finish in top-20 for securing full membership ... In the final round she required 2 under round for finishing inside top-20 but in end she managed 1 over round ... So with that she has earned conditional membership in category 17 on LPGA tour.

Tennis News

At AO Asia-Pacific Wildcard Play-off 2016, Zhuhai, China

[SF] (5) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,284) l (1) Denis Istomin (UZB,121) 26 61 9-11

Doubles
[F] (4) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ N Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) l (3) Cheng Peng Hsieh (TPE)/ Tsung-Hua Yang (TPE) 16 46

Prajnesh missed big opportunity of entering in the final after missing 3 match points in the decider ... After losing the first set easily Prajnesh made strong comeback dominating the second set ... In the decider he took early break in 3rd game, 2-1, but while serving for the match at 5-4 he failed to convert 3 match points ... After that it was game of fitness and Istomin was better ... He broke Prajnesh in 20th game for completing victory ... At 7-all Prajnesh twisted his ankle while returning, so after that he was hobbling.

Jeevan-VSP also missed chance AO wildcard as they lost in straight sets against Taipei pair.

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At $10K Indonesia F4 Futures 2016, Jakarta

[QF] Sidharth Rawat (IND,613) bt (7) Kento Takeuchi (JPN,575) 64 67(2) 62
[QF] (6) Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,533) bt (Q) Cing-Yang Meng (TPE,1302) 62 64

[SF] Sidharth Rawat (IND,613) l Shintaro Imai (JPN,598) 46 57
[SF] (6) Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,533) l (4) Enzo Couacaud (FRA,527) 26 26

Sid scored three sets win over his seeded Japanese opponent for entering into the semis ... Sasi scored comfortable straight sets win over Taipei qualifier ... But in the semifinal our both players failed to overcome challenge of their respective opponents ... Sasi was overpowered by former top-200 type Frenchman and this time Sid failed to overcome challenge of his Japanese opponent ... Still good week for Sid and Sasi.

Badminton News

At $120K Macau Open 2016, Macau (Grand Prix Gold)

[QF] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,37) l Jun Peng Zhao (CHN,125) 19-21 9-21

[QF] (1) Saina Nehwal (IND,10) l Yiman Zhang (CHN,226) 12-21 17-21

Our both players lost against unknown Chinese players ... Unheard Yiman Zhang proved surprise package for Saina as Zhang defeated her convincingly in straight games.

Sai also lost in straight games against unheard Jun Peng Zhao in straight games.

Tennis News

At AO Asia-Pacific Wildcard Play-off 2016, Zhuhai, China

[QF] (8) N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,559) l (3) Di Wu (CHN,159) 64 36 46
[QF] (5) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,284) bt Francis Casey Alcantara (PHI,929) 64 61
[QF] (8) Ankita Raina (IND,270) l (2) Kai-Chen Chang (TPE,131) 16 16

[SF] (5) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,284) vs (1) Denis Istomin (UZB,121)

Doubles
[SF] (4) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ N Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) bt Peng-Xiang Gong (CHN)/ Xi Qi (CHN) 61 62

[F] (4) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ N Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) vs (3) Cheng Peng Hsieh (TPE)/ Tsung-Hua Yang (TPE)

Prajnesh scored comfortable win against his Filipino opponent for entering into the semis ... He is having tough match against top-seed Denis Istomin.

VSP started well after winning the first set but then failed to keep same level of game in next two for losing the match ... Ankita failed to challenge top-150 Chang in one-sided loss.

In the doubles, Jeevan and VSP scored comfortable win over unseeded Chinese pair for entering into the final ... They r facing 3rd seed Taipei pair for winning wildcard for Australian open.

Badminton News

At $120K Macau Open 2016, Macau (Grand Prix Gold)

[R3] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,37) bt (5) Wing Ki Vincent Wong (HKG,18) 21-15 21-17
[R3] Kashyap Parupalli (IND,116) l Yu Hsien Lin (TPE,52) 13-21 20-22

[R2] (1) Saina Nehwal (IND,10) bt Dinar Dyah Ayustine (INA,51) 17-21 21-18 21-12

[R2] (3) Manu Attri (IND)/ B. Sumeeth Reddy (IND) l Danny Bawa Chrisnanta (SIN)/ Hendra Wijaya (SIN) 20-22 19-22

[QF] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,37) vs Jun Peng Zhao (CHN,125)

[QF] (1) Saina Nehwal (IND,10) vs Yiman Zhang (CHN,226)

Saina needed another comeback win over another Indonesian girl after losing the first game, good to see she is winning these tight matches ... Next, she is facing young Chinese opponent, Yiman Zhang.

Sai scored comfortable win over 5th seed Hong Kong's Wing Ki Vincent Wong for entering into the quarters ... Next he is also facing young Chinese opponent Jun Peng Zhao.

Kashyap failed to overcome a challenge of Taipei's Yu Hsien Lin ... Manu-Sumeeth also lost in tight two games against former top-20 doubles players.

Tennis News

At AO Asia-Pacific Wildcard Play-off 2016, Zhuhai, China

[R1] (5) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,284) bt Xiao Gong (CHN,1218) 46 64 62

[QF] (8) N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,559) vs (3) Di WU (CHN,159)
[QF] (5) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,284) vs Francis Casey ALCANTARA (PHI,929)
[QF] (8) Ankita Raina (IND,270) vs (2) Kai-Chen CHANG (TPE,131)

Doubles
[QF] (4) Ankita Raina (IND)/ Sabina Sharipova (UZB) l Chin-Wei Chan (TPE)/ Junri Namigata (JPN) 63 26 8-10

Prajnesh scored comeback win over lowly ranked Chinese opponent after losing the first set ... In the doubles, Ankita with Sabina lost in super tie-break after winning the first set.

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At $10K Indonesia F4 Futures 2016, Jakarta

[R2] Rishab AGARWAL (IND,760) l (Q) Lingxi ZHAO (CHN,UNR) 46 67(4)
[R2] Sidharth RAWAT (IND,613) bt (3) Yusuke TAKAHASHI (JPN,453) 64 62
[R2] (6) Sasi Kumar MUKUND (IND,533) bt Yecong HE (CHN,635) 63 63

[QF] Sidharth RAWAT (IND,613) vs (7) Kento TAKEUCHI (JPN,575)
[QF] (6) Sasi Kumar MUKUND (IND,533) vs (Q) Cing-Yang MENG (TPE,1302)

Sid scored impressive win over top-450 type Japanese opponent in straight sets ... Sasi also joined him in the quarters with comfortable win over Chinese opponent ... But disappointing loss of Rishab against top-50 junior Chinese player.

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At $10K Qatar F4 Futures 2016, Doha

[QF] (1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,249) l (8) Jonny O'Mara (GBR,544) 75 26 57

Disappointing loss for RamK against 500+ British player after winning the first set.

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At $10K ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2016, Cairo, Egypt

[R2] Bhuvana KALVA (IND,UNR) l Akiho KAKUYA (JPN,UNR) 63 46 36

Failed to continue with her good performance as Bhuvana lost after winning the first set.

Badminton News

At $120K Macau Open 2016, Macau (Grand Prix Gold)

[R1] Sameer Verma (IND,43) bt Milan Ludik (CZE,70) 21-11 21-16
[R1] (7) H. S. Prannoy (IND,25) l Chun-Wei Chen (TPE,213) 2-6 retd.
[R1] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,36) bt Hou Him Lam (MAC,833) 21-3 21-8
[R1] Kashyap Parupalli (IND,110) bt Guo Zheng Sim (MAS,UNR) w/o

[R2] Sameer Verma (IND,43) l Muhammad Bayu Pangisthu (INA,126) 18-21 13-21
[R2] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,36) bt Feixiang Sun (CHN,247) 21-12 21-15
[R2] Kashyap Parupalli (IND,110) bt Chun-Wei Chen (TPE,213) 21-19 21-8

[R1] (1) Saina Nehwal (IND,11) bt Hanna Ramadini (INA,44) 21-23 21-14 21-18

[R1] (3) Manu Attri (IND)/ B. Sumeeth Reddy (IND) bt Alan Yun Lung Chan (HKG)/ Kuen Hon Li (HKG) 21-11 17-21 21-9

[R3] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,36) vs (5) Wing Ki Vincent Wong (HKG,18)
[R3] Kashyap Parupalli (IND,110) vs Yu Hsien Lin (TPE,54)

[R2] (1) Saina Nehwal (IND,11) vs Dinar Dyah Ayustine (INA,50)

[R2] (3) Manu Attri (IND)/ B. Sumeeth Reddy (IND) vs Danny Bawa Chrisnanta (SIN)/ Hendra Wijaya (SIN)

Disappointing loss of Sameer in the second round against lowly ranked Indonesian opponent ... Good to see Sai and Kashyap r taking advantage of weaker draw ... Tough comeback win for Saina against Indonesian girl Hanna Ramadini.

Tennis News

At AO Asia-Pacific Wildcard Play-off 2016, Zhuhai, China

[R1] N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,559) bt Zhao-Tai Li (CHN,1999) 76(6) 60
[R1] (5) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,284) vs Xiao Gong (CHN,1218)
[R1] (8) Ankita Raina (IND,270) bt Jia-Qi Kang (CHN,457)

Doubles
[R1] (4) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ N Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) bye
[R1] (4) Ankita Raina (IND)/ Sabina Sharipova (UZB) bye

[QF] (4) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ N Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) bt Xin Gao (CHN)/ Fajing Sun (CHN) w/o

[SF] (4) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ N Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) vs Peng-Xiang Gong (CHN)/ Xi Qi (CHN)

VSP started with a win against local player ... Ankita also won her first round match against top-500 local player ... In the doubles our both pairs had bye in first round and Jeean-VSP received walkover in the quarters ... In the semis they r facing unseeded Chinese pair.

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At $10K Indonesia F4 Futures 2016, Jakarta

[R1] Rishab AGARWAL (IND,760) bt (5) Masato SHIGA (JPN,532) 76(5) 62
[R1] Sidharth RAWAT (IND,613) bt Ryota TANUMA (JPN,782) 75 26 62
[R1] (6) Sasi Kumar MUKUND (IND,533) bt Renta TOKUDA (JPN,730) 64 63

[R2] Rishab AGARWAL (IND,760) vs Lingxi ZHAO (CHN,UNR)
[R2] Sidharth RAWAT (IND,613) vs (3) Yusuke TAKAHASHI (JPN,453)
[R2] (6) Sasi Kumar MUKUND (IND,533) vs Yecong HE (CHN,635)

Good winning start for Rishab against top-550 Japanese opponent in straight sets ... Sasi and Sid also joined him in the second round with contrasting win.

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At $10K Qatar F4 Futures 2016, Doha

[R1] (1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,249) bt Mousa Shanan Zayed (QAT,UNR) 60 60

[R2] (1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,249) bt Marcin Gawron (POL,671) 63 62

RamK is playing in Qatar futures and started with comfortable wins in first 2 rounds.

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At $10K ITF Women's Tournament, Cairo, Egypt

[R1] Bhuvana KALVA (IND,UNR) bt (5) Fiona CODINO (FRA,711) 63 75

Bhuvana is back on ITF circuit after long injury break ... She started with a win against top-725 French girl in the first round.

Badminton News

At $350K Hong Kong Open Badminton Championships 2016, Kowloon (Superseries)

Men's Singles Finall
Sameer Verma (IND,43) l Ka Long Angus Ng (HKG,14) 14-21 21-10 11-21

Women's Singles Final
Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,9) l (4) Tzu Ying Tai (TPE,3) 15-21 17-21

In the women's singles final Taipei's Tzu Ying Tai proved too strong to Sindhu ... Sindhu tried hard but Tai was too good with her shot-making ... For me Tai was deserving winner in this match.

Sameer tried hard against local player Ka Long Angus Ng but lost in three games ... After losing the first game Sameer tried fightback winning the second comfortably ... Sameer failed to keep momentum in the third with raised game by Ka and lost it easily ... Still creditable performance by Sameer as he reached his first final of SuperSeries.

Boxing News

At the AIBA Youth World Championships 2016, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Courtesy Lakshy facebook page

Men's Light flyweight (46-49kg)
[R64] Sachin Singh (IND) bye
[R32] Sachin Singh (IND) bt Gustavo Antonio Perez Alvarez (MEX) 5-0 (30-27, 30-27, 30-27, 30-27, 30-28)
[R16] Sachin Singh (IND) bt Cosmin Petre Girleanu (ROU) 5-0 (30-27, 30-27, 30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
[QF] Sachin Singh (IND) bt Cheng-Yu Hsu (TPE) 3-2 (29-28, 28-29, 28-29, 30-27, 30-27)
[SF] Sachin Singh (IND) bt Carlo Paalam (PHI) 4-1 (29-28, 27-30, 30-27, 30-27, 29-28)

For Gold Medal
Sachin Singh (IND) bt Jorge Grinan (CUB) 5-0

Men's Heavyweight 91 kg
[R32] Naman Tanwar (IND) bye
[R16] Naman Tanwar (IND) bt Marijan Brnic (CRO) 5-0 (30-26, 30-27, 30-27, 30-27, 30-26)
[QF] Naman Tanwar (IND) bt Cristian Razvan Filip (ROU) 5-0 (30-27, 30-27, 29-28, 29-28, 30-27)

[SF] Naman Tanwar (IND) l Dainier Christian Pero Justiz (CUB) 0-5 (27-30, 27-30, 27-30, 27-30, 27-30)

Sachin Singh won Gold in Light flyweight category with a stunning unanimous victory over Cuban national champion Jorge Grinan in Youth World Boxing Championship at St Petersburg, Russia ... With this Sachin becomes the youngest Junior World Champion at age of 17 ... The 17-year-old outpunched his more fancied rival 5-0 to record a rare Indian win over a Cuban boxer ... In the final, Sachin once again put his powerful left jab to good use, displayed brilliant ringcraft against his shorter and often clueless opponent.

India thus finished the tournament on tied 4th position with one gold and a bronze, a marked improvement from the solitary bronze won in the 2014 edition ... Naman Tanwar (91kg) had settled for a bronze after losing in the semifinal against his Cuban boxer.

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At $500K Qatar Ladies Open 2016, Doha, Qatar

Courtesy of Qatar open twitter

1 Aditi Ashok (IND) 70 66 68 69 -15 € 75,000.00
T23 Neha Tripathi (IND) 74 70 72 70 -2 € 6,180.00

Aditi has won the Qatar open, this is her back to back title on European tour ... Aditi showed consistency in all four rounds ... In the first round she managed 2 under, in the second 6 under, in the third 4 under and in the final round 3 under score ... In end Aditi won the title by three strokes ... This win put her at the 2nd spot on the 2016 European Order of Merit list.

Badminton News

At $350K Hong Kong Open Badminton Championships 2016, Kowloon (Superseries)

[SF] Sameer Verma (IND,43) bt (3) Jan O Jorgensen (DEN,3) 21-19 24-22

[SF] Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,9) bt Ngan Yi Cheung (HKG,26) 21-14 21-16

[F] Sameer Verma (IND,43) vs Ka Long Angus Ng (HKG,14)

[F] Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,9) vs (4) Tzu Ying Tai (TPE,3

Sindhu enters into the final with comfortable win over Hong Kong's Ngan Yi Cheung ... In both games Sindhu took control from middle of the game for a win ... In the final she is facing Taipei's Tzu Ying Tai for back to back second SuperSeries title.

Sameer scored impressive win over in-form Danish player Jan O Jorgensen in straight games ... In the first game Sameer took 7-1 early lead but Jan caught with him at 9-all ... From 16-17 Sameer won next 4 points for 20-17 lead, Jan won next 2 points but Sameer converted 3rd game point for winning first game ... In the second game Sameer was 5-11 down but he fought back for catching Jan at 12-all ... Again Sameer was 17-20 down but this time also he saved 3 game points to take 21-20 lead ... Jan saved first match point and gave himself another game point, 21-22 ... Sameer saved 4th game point and won three points for winning this match ... In the final he is facing Hong Kong's Ka Long Angus Ng for his first SuperSeries title.

Badminton News

At $350K Hong Kong Open Badminton Championships 2016, Kowloon (Superseries)

[QF] Sameer Verma (IND,43) bt Wei Feng Chong (MAS,53) 21-17 23-21
[QF] Ajay Jayaram (IND,19) l Ka Long Angus Ng (HKG,14) 15-21 14-21

[QF] (5) Saina Nehwal (IND,11) l Ngan Yi Cheung (HKG,26) 8-21 21-18 19-21
[QF] Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,9) bt Xiaoyu Liang (SIN,32) 21-17 21-23 21-18

[SF] Sameer Verma (IND,43) vs (3) Jan O Jorgensen (DEN,3)

[SF] Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,9) vs Ngan Yi Cheung (HKG,26)

Sindhu needed to dig deep for her three games win over her Singaporean opponent ... After losing second game Sindhu was 6-12 down in the decider but she kept fighting and won couple of big consecutive points, 8 and 6 for a win ... Next she is facing Hong Kong's Ngan Yi Cheung, who scored upset win over Saina in three games ... Saina fought back for winning second after losing first game lopsidedly ... In the decider Saina took 9-3 early lead which she failed to keep ... Saina also tried comeback in final game after winning 6 points in a row from 11-18 to 17-18 but Cheung kept advantage for winning it.

Sameer continued with his good run and scored straight games win over Malaysian Chong for entering into the semis ... In the semis he is facing in form Danish player Jan O Jorgensen.

Ajay failed to challenge his Hong Kong opponent Ka Long Angus Ng.

Tennis News

At $50K+H Astana Challenger, Kazakhstan

[QF] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,291) l (4) Alexander Nedovyesov (KAZ,189) 26 36

Nedo proved too strong for Prajnesh in his straight sets loss ... Overall decent week for Prajnesh but not enough for securing place in Australian open qualifying.

Badminton News

At $350K Hong Kong Open Badminton Championships 2016, Kowloon (Superseries)

[R2] Sameer Verma (IND,43) bt Kazumasa Sakai (JPN,59) 19-21 21-15 21-11
[R2] H.S. Prannoy (IND,27) l Wei Feng Chong (MAS,53) 21-15 11-21 15-21
[R2] Ajay Jayaram (IND,19) bt Yuxiang Huang (CHN,24) 21-18 21-19

[R2] (5) Saina Nehwal (IND,11) bt Sayaka Sato (JPN,14) 21-18 9-21 21-16
[R2] Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,9) bt Ya Ching Hsu (TPE,28) 21-10 21-14

[QF] Sameer Verma (IND,43) vs Wei Feng Chong (MAS,53)
[QF] Ajay Jayaram (IND,19) vs Ka Long Angus Ng (HKG,14)

[QF] (5) Saina Nehwal (IND,11) vs Ngan Yi Cheung (HKG,26)
[QF] Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,9) vs Xiaoyu Liang (SIN,32)

Another really good fighting win by Saina against experienced Sato ... these back to back three games win r showing Saina's comeback in on right track ... Sameer also showed good fighting spirit in his comeback win over Japanese Kazumasa Sakai ... Sindhi scored comfortable straight games win over her Taipei opponent Hsu ... Ajay scored good tight straight games win over similar ranked Chinese Yuxiang Huang for entering into quarters ... But somewhat disappointed by Prannoy's loss against lower ranked Malaysian after winning the first game.

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At $50K+H Astana Challenger, Kazakhstan

[R2] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,291) bt Soon Woo Kwon (KOR,293) 63 46 61

[QF] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,291) vs (4) Alexander Nedovyesov (KAZ,189)

Prajnesh scored impressive win over 18 yrs old Korean Soon Woo Kwon in three sets ... After winning the first set Prajnesh lost the second ... Prajnesh recovered and dominated h=the third for winning it losing a game ... In the quarter he is facing local top-200 experienced Nedo.

Badminton News

At $350K Hong Kong Open Badminton Championships 2016, Kowloon (Superseries)

[R1] Sameer Verma (IND,43) bt Takuma Ueda (JPN,52) 22-20 21-18
[R1] H.S. Prannoy (IND,27) bt Qiao Bin (CHN,26) 21-16 21-18
[R1] Ajay Jayaram (IND,23) bt Anthony Ginting (INA,39) 21-15 13-21 21-16
[R1] B. Sai Praneeth (IND,36) l (3) Jan O Jorgensen (DEN,6) 18-21 18-21

[R1] (5) Saina Nehwal (IND,6) bt Porntip Buranaprasertsuk (THA,12) 12-21 21-19 21-17
[R1] Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,11) bt Susanta Yulia Yosephin (INA,119) 21-13 21-16

[R1] Manu Attri/ B. (IND)/ Sumeeth Reddy (IND) l Soigyu Choi (KOR)/ Ko Sung Hyun (KOR) 15-21 8-21

[R2] Sameer Verma (IND,43) vs Kazumasa Sakai (JPN,59)
[R2] H.S. Prannoy (IND,27) vs Wei Feng Chong (MAS,51)
[R2] Ajay Jayaram (IND,23) vs Yuxiang Huang (CHN,24)

[R2] (5) Saina Nehwal (IND,6) vs Sayaka Sato (JPN,14)
[R2] Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,11) vs Ya Ching Hsu (TPE,28)

Last week Saina and Prannoy lost against same opponents but this week both managed to turn table against their respective opponent ... Saina scored her first win after operation beating Thai girl Porntip Buranaprasertsuk in comeback win after losing the first game ... Prannoy scored straight sets win over similar ranked Chinese opponent ... Sameer Verma also started with win against former top-15 Japanese Takuma Ueda ... Ajay needed three games for beating his Indonesian opponent ... Sindhu started with straight games win over Indonesian girl.

Tennis News

At $50K+H Astana Challenger, Kazakhstan

[R1] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,291) bt (8) Andrey Golubev (KAZ,232) 64 62
[R1] Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,533) l Sanjar Fayziev (UZB,384) 46 46

[R2] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,291) vs Soon Woo Kwon (KOR,293)

Doubles
[R1] Yunseong Chung (KOR)/ Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND) l Yuya Kibi (JPN)/ Soon Woo Kwon (KOR) 16 57

Prajnesh scored impressive comfortable straight sets win over former top-50 Golubev ... Next he is facing similar ranked Korean Kwon.

Sasi lost in straight sets against Fayziev and in the doubles also he lost in straights sets with his partner Yunseong Chung.

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At $50K+H Andria Challenger, Italy

[R1] (4) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND)/ Joran Vliegen (BEL) l Roman Jebavy (CZE)/ Zdenek Kolar (CZE) 36 63 8-10

RamK played doubles with Vliegen but they lost tricky match against Czech pair in match tie-break.

Badminton News

At $700K China Open 2016, Fuzhou (Superseries Premier)

Courtesy PV Sindhu facebook page

[R1] Ajay JAYARAM (IND,23) bt Siyuan ZHU (CHN,235) 21-19 20-22 21-17
[R1] PRANNOY H. S. (IND.28) bt Ka Long Angus NG (HKG,14) 21-13 21-13
[R1] SAI PRANEETH B. (IND,36) l Marc ZWIEBLER (GER,15) 16-21 9-21
[R1] (4) Saina NEHWAL (IND,6) l Porntip BURANAPRASERTSUK (THA,13) 16-21 21-19 14-21
[R1] (7) PUSARLA V. Sindhu (IND.11) bt Chia Hsin LEE (TPE,55) 21-12 21-16

[R2] Ajay JAYARAM (IND,23) bt Nan WEI (HKG,30) 20-22 21-19 21-12
[R2] PRANNOY H. S. (IND.28) l Bin QIAO (CHN,24) 17-21 19-21
[R2] (7) PUSARLA V. Sindhu (IND.11) bt Beiwen ZHANG (USA,16) 18-21 22-20 21-17

[QF] Ajay JAYARAM (IND,23) l (2) Long CHEN (CHN,2) 15-21 14-21
[QF] (7) PUSARLA V. Sindhu (IND.11) bt Bingjiao HE (CHN,10) 22-20 21-10

[SF] (7) PUSARLA V. Sindhu (IND,11) bt (6) Ji Hyun SUNG (KOR,7) 11-21 23-21 21-19

Women's Singles Final
(7) PUSARLA V. Sindhu (IND,11) bt (8) Yu SUN (CHN,9) 21-11 17-21 21-11

PV Sindhu lifts her first Superseries title beating local Chinese opponent Yu Sun in the final ... Superseries title was still missing from Sindhu's cabinet so with this win she has added missing piece in her cabinet ... In the semis Sindhu needed to save 3 match points against Sung before completing a win.

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At $400K Hero Women’s Indian Open 2016, Gurgaon, India

Courtesy of http://ladieseuropeantour.com/

1 Aditi Ashok (IND) 72 69 72 -3 $60,000

Rookie professional Aditi Ashok wrote her name into the history books as she was crowned as the first home winner of the Hero Women’s Indian Open at DLF Golf and Country Club in Gurgaon on Sunday ... The 18-year-old from Bangalore became the first Indian player to win on the Ladies European Tour ... Aditi scored birdie on last hole to avoid play-off and becoming winner.

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At $300K BANK BRI-JCB Indonesia Open 2016, Jakarta

Courtesy of Asian Tour

1 Gaganjeet Bhullar (IND) 71 65 68 68 -16 $54,000.00
T2 Jeev Milkha Singh (IND) 71 66 66 72 -13 $19,800.00
T14 Jyoti Randhawa (IND) 73 70 68 68 -9 $4,155.00
T24 Khalin Joshi (IND) 65 70 74 73 -6 $2,910.00
T27 Shubhankar Sharma (IND) 74 65 71 73 -5 $2,456.25
T27 Chikkarangappa S. (IND) 74 68 73 68 -5 $2,456.25
T36 Chirag Kumar (IND) 68 72 73 71 -4 $1,982.14
T52 Himmat Rai (IND) 71 71 75 71 PAR $1,207.50
64 Abhinav Lohan (IND) 70 72 77 72 +3 $870.00

Gaganjeet Bhullar of India won the Indonesia Open for the second time in his career after closing with a four-under-par 68 ... Gaganjeet also won the event in 2013, sealed his seventh Asian Tour victory and a second title this season with a 16-under-par 272 total ... Jeev Milkha Singh, a two-time Asian Tour number one, settling for tied second place, his best result since 2012, after making bogey on the 17th hole to finish on 72.

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At $6M The RSM Classic 2016, Georgia, USA

T13 Anirban Lahiri (IND) 68 67 70 65 -12 $99,750.00

Anirban produced excellent 5 under final round to finish on top-15 on PGA tour.

Tennis News

At $100K+H Bratislava Challenger, Slovakia

[SF] (3) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt Mikhail Elgin (RUS)/ Denis Istomin (UZB) 36 76(3) 10-3

Doubles Final
(3) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) l (4) Ken Skupski (GBR)/ Neal Skupski (GBR) 64 36 5-10

Divij-Purav lost the final against their good friends Skupski brothers after winning the first set ... Still this performance helped them to achieve their highest career ranking ... Divij is finished on #61 and Purav is on #65 ... As pair they have finished #35 on the tour.

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At $50K+H Kobe Challenger, Japan

[SF] (4) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Christopher Rungkat (INA) bt Sergey Betov (BLR)/ Yaraslav Shyla (BLR) 63 61

Doubles Final
(4) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Christopher Rungkat (INA) l Ante Pavic (CRO)/ Daniel Masur (GER) 64 36 6-10

Jeevan-Rungkat reached in the final but lost the final after winning the first set.

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At $25K Australia F9 Futures, Wollongong

[QF] (6) N. Sriram Balaji (IND,439) bt (2) Sumit Nagal (IND,350) 57 62 76(8)

[SF] (6) N. Sriram Balaji (IND,439) l (4) Jarmere Jenkins (USA,421) 16 16

Bala upset Sumit in the quarters before losing one-sided semi-final against American Jenkins.

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At $25K+H ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2016, Pune, India

[SF] Ankita Raina (IND,284) l (1) Irina Khromacheva (RUS,93) 46 46

Ankita lost in straight sets against top-100 Russian opponent.

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At $50K+H Brescia Challenger, Italy

[R1] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,239) bt (8) Marko Tepavac (SRB,187) 75 63

[R2] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,239) l Salvatore Caruso (ITA,274) 46 57

In the first round RamK scored impressive win over top-200 Serbian opponent but failed to continue same momentum in the next ... He lost is straight sets against lower ranked local player.

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At $50K+H Toyota Challenger, Japan

[R1] (3) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Christopher Rungkat (INA) bt Jui-Chen Hung (TPE)/ Cheong-Eui Kim (KOR) 62 67(6) 10-5
[QF] (3) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Christopher Rungkat (INA) bt Laurent Lokoli (FRA)/ Luke Saville (AUS) w/o
[SF] (3) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Christopher Rungkat (INA) bt (2) Sonchat Ratiwatana (THA)/ Chu-Huan Yi (TPE) 63 76(1)

Doubles Final
(3) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Christopher Rungkat (INA) l (1) Matt Reid (AUS)/ John-Patrick Smith (AUS) 36 46

This week also Jeevan reached in the final with Rungkat in Japanese challenger, which has helped him to reach his career high doubles ranking #100.

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At $25K Australia F10 Futures, Blacktown

[R1] (3) Sumit NAGAL (IND,348) bt Harry BOURCHIER (AUS,1034) 67(4) 62 62
[R1] (7) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,439) bt Jeremy BEALE (AUS,877) 64 61
[R1] Sanam SINGH (IND,647) l (WC) Kody PEARSON (AUS,1532) 16 67(7)

[R2] (3) Sumit NAGAL (IND,348) bt Steven DE WAARD (AUS,707) 62 62
[R2] (7) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,439) bt Maciej SMOLA (POL,918) 63 67(3) 75

[QF] (3) Sumit NAGAL (IND,348) bt (8) Gavin VAN PEPERZEEL (AUS,486) 64 63
[QF] (7) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,439) bt (2) Dayne KELLY (AUS,339) 76(3) 62

[SF] (3) Sumit NAGAL (IND,348) l (1) Christopher O'CONNELL (AUS,265) 26 64 67(3)
[SF] (7) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,439) l (4) Max PURCELL (AUS,350) 67(5) 57

Another good week for Sumit and Bala in Australian futures, where they reached in the semis before losing to their higher ranked local opponents.

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At Kuwait F3 Futures,

[R1] (8) Aryan GOVEAS (IND,1076) bt Fouad BEHBEHANI (KUW,UNR) 60 61
[R2] (8) Aryan GOVEAS (IND,1076) bt Naru SHIRAFUJI (JPN,UNR) 76(3) 64
[QF] (8) Aryan GOVEAS (IND,1076) bt (2) Evgeny KARLOVSKIY (RUS,474) 64 76(4)

[SF] (8) Aryan GOVEAS (IND,1076) l (3) Daniel ALTMAIER (GER,476) 46 26

18 yrs old Aryan Goveas gave really good performance in Kuwait futures beating top-500 Russian in the quarters.

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At $50K+H Andria Challenger, Italy

[R1] (7) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,233) l Gianluca Mager (ITA,338) 67(5) 63 26

RamK lost in the first round against lower ranked Italian ... After remaining competitive in first 2 sets RamK was off-color in the third ... He really needs to take break from the tour and work on his game under coaches in this off-season.

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At $50K+H Astana Challenger, Kazakhstan

[R1] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,291) vs (8) Andrey Golubev (KAZ,232)
[R1] Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,533) vs Sanjar Fayziev (UZB,384)

Tough draw for Prajnesh and Sasi.

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Squash News

At $150K Men's Qatar Classic 2016, Doha

[R1] Saurav Ghosal (IND,22) l (Q) Alan Clyne (SCO,35) 10-12, 11-9, 7-11, 1-11 (47m)

Disappointing loss for Saurav against Scottish qualifier in four games.

Tennis News

At $100K+H Bratislava Challenger, Slovakia

[QF] (3) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt Julian Knowle (AUT)/ Jurgen Melzer (AUT) 61 62

[SF] (3) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Mikhail Elgin (RUS)/ Denis Istomin (UZB)

Divij and Purav scored impressive dominating win over veteran but former top-10 doubles Austrian players (Jurgen was top-10 in the singles also) ... Next they r facing pairing of Istomin and Elgin.

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At $25K Australia F9 Futures, Wollongong

[R2] (6) N. Sriram Balaji (IND,439) bt (WC) Benard Bruno Nkomba (AUS,UNR) 63 75
[R2] (2) Sumit Nagal (IND,350) bt (Q) Dimitri Vidin (AUS,UNR) 64 61

[QF] (2) Sumit Nagal (IND,350) vs (6) N. Sriram Balaji (IND,439)

Expected comfortable wins for Bala and Sumit ... Next they r facing each other in the quarters.

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At $25K+H ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2016, Pune, India

[QF] Ankita Raina (IND,284) bt Jaqueline Adina Cristian (ROU,363) 64 62

[SF] Ankita Raina (IND,284) vs (1) Irina Khromacheva (RUS,93)

Ankita is in the semis with another good win against Polish girl ... Next she is having real tough match against top-100 Russian girl.

Tennis News

At $50K Knoxville Challenger, USA

[R1] (Q) Yuki Bhambri (IND,546) l Michael Mmoh (USA,268) 46 67(8)

Yuki struggled with his game in this match ... No zip was in his serve and he made numerous unforced errors ... In the first set both players exchanged early breaks in 1st two games ... In the second set Yuki was 1-4 down before he tried comeback ... He broke Mmoh in 7th game for making 4-all ... In tie-break Yuki had set point at 7-6 but then his serve let him down ... Mmoh converted 5th match point for completing a win.

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At $75K Ortisei Challenger, Italy

[QF] Alessandro Motti (ITA)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) l (3) Riccardo Ghedin (ITA)/ Dino Marcan (CRO) 46 67(7)

RamK and Motti lost in closely fought two sets against 4th seeds.

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At $50K+H Kobe Challenger, Japan

[QF] (4) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Christopher Rungkat (INA) bt Ruben Gonzales (PHI)/ Toshihide Matsui (JPN) 26 75 10-8

Jeevan and Rungkat scored comeback win after losing the first set against Gonzales and Matsui for entering into the semis.

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At $25K Australia F9 Futures, Wollongong

[R1] (6) N. Sriram Balaji (IND,439) bt Maciej Smola (POL,936) 46 63 64

[R2] (6) N. Sriram Balaji (IND,439) vs (WC) Benard Bruno Nkomba (AUS,UNR)
[R2] (2) Sumit Nagal (IND,350) vs (Q) Dimitri Vidin (AUS,UNR)

Bala needed comeback win against her Polish opponent after losing the first set ... Next Bala and Sumit having winnable matches as Bala is facing 17 yrs old Aussie wild-card Nkomba and Sumit is facing Aussie qualifier Vidin.

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At $25K+H ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2016, Pune, India

[R2] Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,602) l (1) Irina Khromacheva (RUS,92) 26 16
[R2] Ankita Raina (IND,284) bt Magdalena French (POL,320) 62 63

[QF] Ankita Raina (IND,284) vs Jaqueline Adina Cristian (ROU,363)

Ankita scored comfortable win over her Polish opponent ... Next she is facing 18 yrs old Romanian Jaqueline Adina Cristian in the quarters ... Karman failed to challenge top-100 Russian in her second round match.

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At $100K+H Bratislava Challenger, Slovakia

[R1] (3) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt Andrej Martin (SVK)/ Tristan-Samuel Weissborn (AUT) 64 60

Dominating win by Divij and Purav in the first round.

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At $75K Ortisei Challenger, Italy

[R1] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,228) l (SE) Kevin Krawietz (GER,391) 46 46

Doubles
[R1] Alessandro Motti (ITA)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) bt Adrian Menendez-Maceiras (ESP)/ Luca Vanni (ITA) 67(10) 63 16-14

[QF] Alessandro Motti (ITA)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) vs (3) Riccardo Ghedin (ITA)/ Dino Marcan (CRO)

RamK needs to work on his game, importantly on his backhand ... With this weakness it is difficult to be successful on the tour ... He lost in straight sets against his German opponent.

RamK-Motti scored a win in 30 pts long match tie-break after saving multiple match points ... After losing the first set in long tie-break RamK-Motti fought back for winning the second with a break ... Then both pairs tried hard in match tie-break but RamK-Motti prevailed ... Next they r facing 3rd seed Italian-Croatian pair.

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At $50K+H Kobe Challenger, Japan

[R1] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,286) l Laurent Lokoli (FRA,325) 36 67(0)

Doubles
[R1] (4) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Christopher Rungkat (INA) bt Ti Chen (TPE)/ Amir Weintraub (ISR) 60 64

[QF] (4) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Christopher Rungkat (INA) vs Ruben Gonzales (PHI)/ Toshihide Matsui (JPN)

Prajnesh lost against Frenchman in straight sets ... After losing the first set Prajnesh tried fightback in the second ... He was break up and serving for the set at 6-5 but Prajnesh failed to hold and then lost tie-break without winning a point.

Easy winning start for Jeevan and Rungkat in the doubles ... Next they r facing Filipino-Japanese pair.

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At $50K Knoxville Challenger, USA

[Q3] Yuki Bhambri (IND,546) bt (3) Tim Van Rijthoven (NED,334) 75 63

[R1] (Q) Yuki Bhambri (IND,546) vs Michael Mmoh (USA,268)

Yuki qualified for main-draw with straight sets win over talented young Dutch player Tim ... In the first set Yuki was double break down at 1-4 after that he made excellent comeback for winning 6 games from next 7 games to win this set ... After that Yuki controlled next set for winning this match ... In main-draw he is facing 18 yrs old young American Michael Mmoh.

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At $25K Australia F9 Futures, Wollongong

[R1] (2) Sumit Nagal (IND,350) bt Daniel Nolan (AUS,696) 61 61

Doubles
[R1] (4) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Sumit Nagal (IND) l Nathan PASHA (USA)/ Darren Polkinghorne (AUS) 36 67(4)

Dominating winning start for Sumit against local player ... But in the doubles Sumit lost with Bala against American-Australian pair.

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At $25K+H ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2016, Pune, India

[R1] Prerna Bhambri (IND,488) l (1) Irina Khromacheva (RUS.92) 36 46
[R1] Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,602) bt (Q) Sowjanya Bavisetti (IND,868) 46 64 50 retd.
[R1] (Q) Nidhi Chilumula (IND,867) l (8) Jia-Jing Lu (CHN,261) 26 16
[R1] Ankita Raina (IND,284) bt Chieh-Yu Hsu (TPE,420) 64 16 61
[R1] (Q) Eetee Maheta (IND,754) l Laura Pigossi (BRA,378) 36 46
[R1] (WC) Riya Bhatia (IND,549) l Ana Veselinovic (MNE,429) 06 06

[R2] Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,602) vs (1) Irina Khromacheva (RUS,92)
[R2] Ankita Raina (IND,284) vs Magdalena French (POL,320)

Expected win for Ankita, though in three sets ... Next she is facing Polish opponent Magdalena French ... Karman also scored good win over in-form Sowjanya, after Sowjanya retired in the third set ... Next she is having tough match against top-100 Russian player Irina Khromacheva.

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At $100K+H Bratislava Challenger, Slovakia

[R1] (3) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Andrej Martin (SVK)/ Tristan-Samuel Weissborn (AUT)

Divij and Purav r playing in Slovak challenger.

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At $50K Knoxville Challenger, USA

[Q2] Yuki Bhambri (IND,546) bt (8) Luke Bambridge (GBR,509) 61 76(5)

[Q3] Yuki Bhambri (IND,546) vs (3) Tim Van Rijthoven (NED,334)

Yuki got stretched to tie-break in the second set by Luke Bambridge ... Next he is facing 19 yrs old Dutchman, good test for Yuki to check his progress.

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At $25K Australia F9 Futures, Wollongong

[R1] (6) N. Sriram Balaji (IND,439) vs Maciej Smola (POL,936)
[R1] (2) Sumit Nagal (IND,350) vs Daniel Nolan (AUS,696)

Doubles
[R1] (4) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Sumit Nagal (IND) vs Nathan PASHA (USA)/ Darren Polkinghorne (AUS)

Sumit and Bala r seeding in the singles and both r in bottom draw and can face each other in the quarters ... In the doubles they r paying together and r 4th seed.

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At $25K+H ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2016, Pune, India

[R1] (WC) Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal (IND,573) l (Q) Stefanie Tan (SGP,493) 26 57
[R1] (WC) Kyra Shroff (IND,625) l (Q)Amina Anshba (RUS,701) 46 46
[R1] (WC) Prarthana G. Thombare (IND,641) l Harmony Tan (FRA,400) 36 26

Hoping for bettr performance by Kyra and Dhruthi ... Dhruti was 5-0 up in the second after losing the first set but afterwards she lost next 7 games for losing the match.

Badminton News

At $120K Bitburger Badminton Open 2016, Saarbrucken, Germany (Grand Prix Gold)

Men's Singles Final
Sourabh Varma (IND,57) l (4) Yuqi Shi (CHN,16) 19-21 20-22

Sourabh lost in closely fought two games against in-form top-20 Chinese Yuqi Shi ... Still good to see Sourabh is showing consistency in his results after long injury break.

Tennis News

At €3.7M BNP Paribas Masters 2016, Paris, France

[SF] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Daniel Nestor (CAN) l (1) Pierre-Hugues Herbert (FRA)/ Nicolas Mahut (FRA) 46 63 6-10

This time Rohan-Nestor failed to complete comeback after losing the first set against WR #1 French pair ... After losing first set they tried comeback with winning second set but French pair recovered in match tie-break for winning it comfortably.

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At $75K Ortisei Challenger, Italy

[R1] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,227) vs (SE) Kevin Krawietz (GER,391)

RamK is facing German Kevin Krawietz in the first round.

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At $50K+H Kobe Challenger, Japan

[R1] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,287) vs Laurent Lokoli (FRA,325)

Prajnesh having winnable match against Frenchman Laurent Lokoli.

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At $25K+H ITF Women's tournament, Pune, India

[R1] Prerna Bhambri (IND,488) vs (1) Irina Khromacheva (RUS.92)
[R1] (Q) Sowjanya Bavisetti (IND,868) vs Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,602)
[R1] (WC) Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal (IND,573) vs (Q) Stefanie Tan (SGP,493)
[R1] (Q) Nidhi Chilumula (IND,867) vs (8) Jia-Jing Lu (CHN,261)
[R1] Ankita Raina (IND,284) vs Chieh-Yu Hsu (TPE,420)
[R1] (WC) Kyra Shroff (IND,625) vs (Q)Amina Anshba (RUS,701)
[R1] (Q) Eetee Maheta (IND,754) vs Laura Pigossi (BRA,378)
[R1] (WC) Riya Bhatia (IND,549) vs Ana Veselinovic (MNE,429)
[R1] (WC) Prarthana G. Thombare (IND,641) v. Harmony Tan (FRA,400)

Swojanya, Nidhi and Eetee joined in main-draw .... In-form Swojanya is facing Karman in the first round ... Other hand decent draw for our players in this higher lever tournament.

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At $50K Knoxville Challenger, USA

[Q1] Yuki Bhambri (IND,552) bt Alexander Ritschard (SUI,1089) 61 62

[Q2] Yuki Bhambri (IND,552) vs (8) Luke Bambridge (GBR,509)

Yuki started with dominating win in the qualifier ... Next he is facing 500+ ranked Britisher.