Olympics News
At London Olympics 2012, England

Badminton

Women's Singles - Bronze medal match
(4) Saina Nehwal (IND,5) bt (2) Xin Wang (CHN,2) 18-21 0-1 Retd.

Final Standing
Gold - Xuerui Li (CHN)
Silver - Yihan Wang (CHN)
Bronze - Saina Nehwal (IND)

Athletics
Women's Discus Throw
7 Krishna Poonia (IND) 63.62 mtrs

Men's 20km Race Walk
10 K. Irfan (IND) 1:20:21 (National record)
33 Gurmeet Singh (IND) 1:23:34
43 Baljinder Singh (IND) 1:25:39

Women's 3000m Steeplechase - Heat 1
13 Sudha Singh (IND) 9:48.86

Boxing

Men's Light Fly (49kg)
[R2] Devendro Singh Laishram (IND) bt Serdamba Purevdorj (MON) 16-11

[QF] Devendro Singh Laishram (IND) vs Paddy Barnes (IRL)

Men's Light Welter (64kg)
[R2] Manoj Kumar (IND) l Thomas Stalker (GBR) 16-20

Rowing
Men's Lightweight Double Sculls - Final D
1 Sandeep Kumar (IND)/ Manjeet Singh (IND) 7:08.39

Shooting - Women's Trap
20 Shagun Chowdhary (IND) (23 + 17 + 21) 61

Tennis - Mixed Doubles
[QF] Sania Mirza (IND)/ Leander Paes (IND) l (1) Victoria Azarenka (BLR)/ Max Mirnyi (BLR) 57 67(5)

Saina Nehwal won the Bronze medal when Xin Wang retired from their match due to knee injury after winning the first game ... Saina take early 3-0 lead but after that Xin Wang take control of the game ... Xin was playing excellent game and was putting pressure on Saina ... Saina was under pressure and made numerous lead ... Xin take hefty lead but at the same time her struggle with dodgy knee also started ... Saina take advantage of it and fought back in the match ... Xin collapsed on the court with pain holding her knee when she was leading 20-18 ... After taping her knee match started and Xin immediately won next point to win the first game ... The second game started but Xin again collapsed on the court after winning 1st point and decided to retire from the match ... Though Saina didn't want such a win but in end she was fittest and standing on the court ... I feel deserving bronze medal for Saina.

In Light Flyweight category Devendro Singh Laishram created huge upset beating Mongolian boxer Serdamba Purevdorj, who was silver medalist from Beijing Olympics and former world champion ... Devendro Singh played with his usual aggressive style and surprised Purevdorj with that ... Devendro Singh won the first round 4-3 ... In the second round Devendro Singh kept playing aggressively though Purevdorj tried to defend ... This round again won by Devendro Singh 4-2 ... In the final round Purevdorj started aggressively and both played excellent round ... Devendro hit some crucial punches and Purevdorj received standing count ... In last stage of the round Purevdorj attacked Devendro and scored points but that was very late ... Devendro won this round 8-6 ... In quarter final he is facing Irish boxer Paddy Barnes.

Sudha Singh finished lowly 13 in the steeplechase heat.

In Women's Trap, Shagun Chowdhary disappointed us with her performance ... She started well hitting 23 targets from first 25 shots but had horrible second 25 shots where she hit only 17 targets and in the final 25 shots also she managed to hit 21 ... Shagun finished on 20th from 22 shooters.

In Men's Lightweight Double Sculls Final D, our rowers Sandeep Kumar and Manjeet Singh won the race and finished on 19th position in 20 pairs.

Top-seed Belarus pair had a one set advantage when match began today ... Sania and Lee were serving well and holding comfortably ... Our pair had 4 break points on Azarenka and Mirnyi service games but failed to convert it ... Which cost them the match ... In tie-break our pair were up with mini-break 2-0 but Belarus pair immediately broke back to make it 2-1 ... Belarus pair take mini-break to lead 2-4 but our pair take mini-break back at 3-5 and made it 4-5 ... But Belarus pair again take crucial mini-break on 11 points to lead 5-6 and converted that match point to complete the victory ... So with that heartbroken end for Lee and Sania's quest for mixed doubles medal ... Also that means our greatest doubles pair Lee and Mahesh failed to win Olympics doubles medal in their entire career.

In Men's 20km Race Walk, K. Irfan performed well above expectation and finished on 10th position after creating national record ... He was only 1 minute 35 seconds behind gold medalist ... Our other walkers finished on 33rd and 43rd positions.

Krishna Poonia managed to throw 4 discuss over 60 mtrs ... Her 5th throw was the best for her, 63.62 mtrs ... She finished on 7th position in the final standing ... I would say decent performance by Krishna Poonia.

In Light Welterweight category local boxer Thomas Stalker proved strong for Manoj Kumar ... Thomas dominated first 2 rounds to win 7-4 and 9-5 then in the third Manoj Kumar tried hard and won it but deficit was too much in the end.

Tennis News
At $10K India F12 Futures, Chennai

Singles Final
(3) Saketh MYNENI (IND,505) bt (4) Antoine ESCOFFIER (FRA,568) 63 62

Saketh lifted his fourth ITF title beating Frenchman Escoffier easily ... Back to back ITF futures titles for Saketh ... I feel this is right time that Saketh need to move playing more tougher tournament outside India.
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At $10K USA F22 Futures, Decatur, Illnois

[SF] (3) Sanam Singh (IND,436) bt (6) Takanyi Garanganga (ZIM,672) 62 76(5)

[F] (3) Sanam Singh (IND,436) vs (Q) Ryan Rowe (USA,1642)

With straight sets victory over Zimbabwean player Sanam is in the final ... He is facing talented American qualifier Ryan Rowe.

Olympics News
At London Olympics 2012, England

Shooting

Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol
Gold - Leuris Pupo (CUB) 34 pts (NOR and EWR)
Silver - Vijay Kumar (IND) 30 pts
Bronze - Feng Ding (CHN) 27 pts

Qualification
4 Vijay Kumar (IND) (293 + 292) 585 pts

Men's 50m Rifle Prone
4 Joydeep Karmakar (IND) (595 + 104.1) 699.1 pts
18 Gagan Narang (IND) 593 pts

Athletics
Men's Shot Put
T18 Om Prakash Singh (IND) 19.86 mtrs

Women's Triple Jump
24 Mayookha Johny (IND) 13.77 mtrs

Women's Discus Throw
8 Krishna Poonia (IND) 63.54 mtrs. (qualify for the final)
13 Seema Antil (IND) 61.91 mtrs.

Badminton - Women's Singles
[SF] (4) Saina Nehwal (IND,5) l Yihan Wang (CHN,1) 13-21 13-21

Bronze medal match
(4) Saina Nehwal (IND,5) vs (2) Xin Wang (CHN,2)

Boxing
Men's Welter (69kg)
[R2] Vikas Krishnan Yadav (IND) l Errol Spence (IND) 13-15 (officially Vikas declared winner with 13-11 but afterwards AIBA changed the result in favor of American after giving 4 extra points for the final round)

Men's Hockey - Group B
India l Germany 2-5
Goal Scored - VR Raghunath (IND) 13' PC, Tushar Khandker (IND) 62' and Florian Fuchs (GER) 7' 15' and 36', Oliver Korn (GER) 24', Christopher Wesley (GER) 34'

Rowing
Men's Single Sculls - Final C
4 Sawarn Singh (IND) 7:29.66

Swimming - Men's 1500m Freestyle - Heat 1
8 Adaveeshaiah P. Gagan Ullalmath (IND) 16:31.14 mins

Tennis - Mixed Doubles
[QF] Sania Mirza (IND)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs (1) Victoria Azarenka (BLR)/ Max Mirnyi (BLR) 57 2-3

Vijay Kumar won the SILVER in Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol ... He kept his nerve in new format final in Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol ... As per new format, all 6 finalist start from the scratch and elimination begins after 4th serirs of 5 shots ... Vijay Kumar scored 5, 4, 4 and 3 points (16 pts) in first 4 rounds and avoided first elimination with tied for 2nd position with Chinese Feng Ding ... For next two elimination also these two shooters remained tied for 2nd with another 4 and 4 points ... Next elimination for bronze medal Feng managed 3 accurate shots from 5 shots and Vijay Kumar kept his nerve to scored 4 points and eliminated Feng and guaranteed Silver ... At that time Cuban shooter Leuris Pupo was on 30 and Vijay Kumar on 28 ... In the last 5 shots Pupo scored 4 accurate hits and won the Gold with new Olympics record and equaling world record and Vijay Kumar managed only 2 accurate shots from final 5 shots to win bronze ... Very creditable shooting by Vijay Kumar to win Silver under pressure in Olympics.

Before this in qualification Vijay Kumar shot another excellent 292 pts in the second round and qualify for the final on 4th position.

Yihan Wang proved too strong for Saina ... She defeated Saina in 39 minutes losing only 26 points ... After losing the first game Saina fought well in the second ... She was leading 11-10 but after falling behind she failed to raise game and lost match ... Saina will play against WR #2 Xin Wang for Bronze medal match.

In athletics disappointed start for India ... Om Prakash Singh and Mayookha Johny failed to produce their best throw and jump respectively and ended well below in the standing ... Om Prakash finished on T18 position in 40 throwers and Mayookha Johny finished on 24th position on 36 jumpers.

Our wild-card swimmer Gagan Ullalmath finished last in his heat ... He was last in all 32 swimmers and was only swimmer, who take more than 15:50 mins to complete.

Sawarn Singh finished 4th in 'Final C' so overall 16th place in 33 rowers in single sculls ... Creditable performance in his first Olympics.

In Men's 50m Rifle Prone, Joydeep Karmakar finished on 4th position and missed bronze medal by 2 points ... Joydeep played play-off for 5 positions as 9 shooters were shot 595 ... Joydeep qualified for the final and shot third best round but his third place Slovenia shooter Rajmond Debevec scored 105 pts to won bronze ... Gagan managed only 593 pts in the qualification to finish on 18th in the standing.

Our poor run in the hockey continued ... Today Germany thrashed us 5-2 ... Florian Fuchs scored hat-trick for Germany ... At half-time Germany were leading 4-1 as Indian defense struggled against Germany.

In controversial bout AIBA changed decision giving by judges in favor of American boxer in Welterweight category ... Vikas started cautiously against Errol Spence but won the first round 4-2 ... In the second round Errol Spence was aggressive and managed to win it 6-5 ... Vikas was still leading by 1 point ... In the last round Errol Spence was very aggressive but Vikas was defending well attack from Spence ... In some shocking calculation judges awarded this round in favor of Vikas 4-3 and declared winner 13-11 ... But after few hours AIBA changed result in favor of Errol Spence giving 4 extra points for the final round ... This is sad as how AIBA favors big nation like USA, same wrong decision was giving in Sumit Sangwan but at that time AIBA turned down our appeal.

In Women's Discus Throw, Krishna Poonia second throw was 63.54 mtrs., which was enough to secure her place in the final ... Seema Antil managed throw 61.91 mtrs but that was not enough for securing place in the final ... She missed the final by only 55 centi-meters ... For getting into medal contention Krishna Poonia need minimum throw around/ above 65 meters.

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

[SF] (4) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) bt (2) Pierre-Hugues Herbert (FRA)/ Hsin-Han Lee (TPE) 64 61

[F] (4) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs (1) Sanchai Ratiwatana (THA) / Sonchat Ratiwatana (THA)

Divij and Yuki scored excellent solid win against 2nd seed Herbert and Lee ... So another final for Divij and Yuki, in the final they r facing Thai Ratiwatanas.
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At $10K India F12 Futures, Chennai

[SF] (6) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,756) l (4) Antoine ESCOFFIER (FRA,568) 36 36
[SF] (3) Saketh MYNENI (IND,505) bt (7) Hyun-Woo NAM (KOR,776) 75 36 75

Doubles Final
(2) Saketh MYNENI (IND)/ Arun-Prakash RAJAGOPALAN (IND) bt (1) Weerapat DOAKMAIKLEE (THA)/ Perakiat SIRILUETHAIWATTANA (THA) 63 64

Good fighting win by Saketh against in-form Korean ... So back to back finals for Saketh ... Hoping for the second futures title in two weeks for Saketh ... Other hand Vijay Sundar failed to raise game against French man.

Saketh and Arun-Prakash lifted doubles title beating top-seed Thai pair, who defeated our pair in last week's futures final.

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At $10K USA F22 Futures, Decatur, Illnois

[QF] (3) Sanam Singh (IND,436) bt Artem Ilyushin (RUS,912) 63 61

[SF] (3) Sanam Singh (IND,436) vs (6) Takanyi Garanganga (ZIM,672)

Another comfortable win by Sanam ... Next he is facing sixth seed Zimbabwean Takanyi Garanganga.

Olympics News
At London Olympics 2012, England

Badminton
Men's Singles
[QF] Kashyap Parupalli (IND,21) l (1) Chong Wei Lee (MAS,2) 19-21 18-21

Women's Singles
[QF] (4) Saina Nehwal (IND,5) bt Tine Baun (DEN,7) 21-15 22-20

[SF] (4) Saina Nehwal (IND,5) vs (1) Yihan Wang (CHN,1)

Boxing
Men's Light (60kg)
[R2] Jai Bhagwan (IND) l Gani Zhailauov (KAZ) 6-18

Men's Middle (75kg)
[R2] Vijender (IND) bt Terrell Gausha (USA) 16-15

[QF] Vijender (IND) vs Abbos Atoev (UZB)

Shooting
Men's Double Trap
11 Ronjan Sodhi (IND) (48 + 44 +42) 134

Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol
5 Vijay Kumar (IND) 293 pts

Tennis - Mixed Doubles
[R1] Sania Mirza (IND)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt Ana Ivanovic (SRB)/ Nenad Zimonjic (SRB) 62 64

[QF] Sania Mirza (IND)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs (1) Victoria Azarenka (BLR)/ Max Mirnyi (BLR)

After first two rounds Ronjan Sodhi was tied for 5th position and 4 shots behind British shooter ... He was needed solid final round but he missed too many and managed only 42 from 50 ... So with 134 score he finished on 11th position and 3 shots behind final qualifying.

In Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol, after first round Vijay Kumar is 5th with 293 score ... Vijay Kumar having big chance to qualify for the final if he repeat such performance tomorrow in the second round.

In lightweight Kazakh Gani Zhailauov proved too strong for Jai Bhagwan ... Jai won the first round 3-2 but afterwards Gani dominated ... He was very aggressive in the second round and scored few points ... Other hand Jai received warning for bending too many times ... Gani won this round 10-3 ... In the final round Gani defended and won it 4-2 to book place in the quarter final.

In Middleweight category Vijender scored very exciting but hard fought victory over American boxer ... Both boxers played aggressive boxing but Vijender was lucky to pull victory ... Typical cautious start from both boxers in the first round ... Vijender won this round 4-3 and this one point lead turned crucial in the end ... In the second round both boxers tied 5-5 ... In the third round aggressive boxing by both boxers ... Both were earning points with scoring punches but again this round ended 7-7 and Vijender won 16-15 ... In the quarter final Vijender is facing Uzbek Abbos Atoev.

Saina entered into her first Olympics semi-final with win over Tine Baun ... In this match both players were making numerous errors with some suspicious line calls from line judges ... In the first game Saina take early lead and kept increasing ... From 11-20 Tine saved 4 game points but Saina converted 5th game point to win this game ... In the second game Tine and Saina exchanged leads but late in the game Tine take couple of points lead ... Tine had 3 game points at 20-17 but Saina won next 5 points to win this match in 37 minutes.

Kashyap's superb run in this Olympics ended against WR #2 Malaysian Chong Wei Lee in the quarter final ... Kashyap take early lead and was leading 9-4 but Lee fought back to caught with him at 14-all ... Kashyap made couple of errors that costed him the first game from 19-all ... In the second game Lee take control from the start and won it comfortably ... Match duration was 44 minutes.

Sania and Leander had a winning start against Serbian pair ... They scored comfortable win in 64 minutes ... In the first set our pair broke Serbian pair 3 times and got broken once ... In the second set our pair didn't face a break point and they converted 1 from 5 ... In the quarters they r facing top-seed Belarus pair Azarenka and Mirnyi.

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

[R1] Yuki BHambri (IND,196) vs (2) Grega Zemlja (SLO,110) 26 16

Doubles
[QF] (3) Purav Raja (IND)/ Harri Heliovaara (FIN) l Liang-Chi Huang (TPE)/ Tsung-Hua Yang (TPE) 64 46 6-10
[QF] (4) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) bt Nikolaus Moser (AUT)/ Ruan Roelofse (RSA)75 62

[SF] (4) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs (2) Pierre-Hugues Herbert (FRA)/ Hsin-Han Lee (TPE)

Grega Zemlja handed Yuki one of his worst defeat ... Yuki's serve exposed against Grega, who broke Yuki twice in the first set and thrice in the second set ... Yuki failed to get a single break point on Grega.

Yuki and Divij scored straight sets victory over Moser and Roelofse ... After winning close first set they dominated the second.

Purav and his partner Harri lost against Taipei pair in match tie-break after winning the first set.
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At $10K India F12 Futures, Chennai

[QF] (6) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,756) bt (1) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND,397) W/O
[QF] (4) Antoine ESCOFFIER (FRA,568) bt Perakiat SIRILUETHAIWATTANA (THA,941) 64 62
[QF] (3) Saketh MYNENI (IND,505) bt (Q) Ajai SELVARAJ (IND,1312) 62 61
[QF] (7) Hyun-Woo NAM (KOR,776) bt (Q) Arjun KADHE (IND,UNR) 62 62

Doubles
[SF] (1) Weerapat DOAKMAIKLEE (THA)/ Perakiat SIRILUETHAIWATTANA (THA) bt Antoine ESCOFFIER (FRA)/ Bastien FAVIER (FRA) 63 63
[SF] (2) Saketh MYNENI (IND)/ Arun-Prakash RAJAGOPALAN (IND) bt (4) Kaza Vinayak SHARMA (IND)/ Ashwin VIJAYRAGAVAN (IND) 57 62 10-7

Yesterday Jeevan injured in his doubles match so he gave walkover to Vijay Sundar in the singles ... Saketh scored dominating win over Ajai ... Arjun also lost against Korean Nam.
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At $10K USA F22 Futures, Decatur, Illnois

[R2] (3) Sanam Singh (IND,436) bt (Q) Ryan Lipman (USA,UNR) 64 62

[QF] (3) Sanam Singh (IND,436) vs Artem Ilyushin (RUS,912)

Comfortable straight sets victory for Sanam Singh against American qualifier ... Next he is facing Russian Artem Ilyushin.

Olympics News
At London Olympics 2012, England

Archery - Women's Recurve Individual
[R1] Deepika Kumari (IND,1) l Amy Oliver (GBR,37) 2-6 (26-27 26-22 26-27 26-28)

Badminton
Men's Singles
[PQF] Kashyap Parupalli (IND,21) bt Niluka Karunaratne (SRI,48) 21-14 15-21 21-9

Women's Singles
(4) Saina Nehwal (IND,5) bt Jie Yao (NED,20) 21-14 21-16

Men's Hockey - Group B
India l New Zealand 1-3
Goal Scored - Sandeep Singh (IND) 2' PC and Andrew Hayward (NZL) 13' PC, Phillip Burrows (NZL) 24' PC, Nicholas Wilson (NZL) 29'

Rowing
Men's Single Sculls - Semi Final C
2 Sawarn Singh 7:36.25 (qualify for Final C)

Men's Lightweight Double Sculls - Semi Final D
4 Sandeep Kumar (IND)/ Manjeet Singh (IND) 7:19.31 (participate in Final D)

Shooting - Women's 25m Pistol
19 Rahi Sarnobat (IND) (291 + 288) 579 pts
30 Annu Raj Singh (IND) (286 + 289) 575 pts

Tennis
Men's doubles
[R2] Leander Paes (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) l (2) Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA)/ Michael Llodra (FRA) 67(3) 64 36

Mixed Doubles
[R1] Sania Mirza (IND)/ Leander P{aes (IND) vs Ana Ivanovic (SRB)/ Nenad Zimonjic (SRB)

With shocking loss of WR #1 Deepika Kumari in the first round our very disappointed archery performance ended in London Olympics ... In all 4 sets Deepika managed to score 26 points and her Brirish opponents 3 times scored more points than her for upset victory.

Kashyap cread history after becoming first Indian man to reach the quarter-finals of the Olympic Games after beating Sri Lankan shuttler in three games ... After winning the first game Kashyap lost momentum in the second though he saved 8 game points still Niluka won the second game ... In decider Kashyap rasied level of his game and won it comfortably to enter into the quarter final.

Saina started positively and take early control against Jie Yao ... Jie Yao tried dnumerous tactics but Saina comfortably won the first game ... In the second game Jie Yao played lot better and put pressure on Saina ... Saina made few errors but she brought back her composure and won important points to complete victory in two games.

Sawarn Singh finished 2nd in Men's Single Sculls semi final C ... With this he will qualify for Final C, means will race for 13th to 18th placing.

But Sandeep Kumar and Manjeet Singh gave disappointing performance to finished on the last position in their semi final D in Men's Lightweight Double Sculls ... They will participate in Final D to avoid last position in the standing.

In Women's 25m Pistol our both shooters disappointed finishing low 19th and 30th place.

Very disappointing loss of Indian men in the hockey ... We were very disoriented against Black sticks despite scoring early goal ... After that Black sticks dominated match.

In the first set both pairs failed to break opponent's service game ... French had couple of break point on Lee's serve in 11th game but failed to convert ... In tie=break 2nd seed French pair had couple of mini-breaks to win it comfortably ... In the second set Vishnu and Lee broke Tsonga's serve in 1st game with excellent returns ... Our pair kept this one break advantage to win this set ... in the final set our pair put pressure on Tsonga and Llodra's serves in their first two service games but French pair managed to hold ... French pair made some excellent returns to take important break on Lee's serve in 8th game ... When Llodra was serving for the match then our pair put pressure on his serve ... We saved couple of match points but French pair also saved couple of break points before converting third match point ... Creditable performance by Vishnu with Lee in this match.

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

[R1] Yuki BHambri (IND,196) bt Harri Heliovaara (FIN,253) 75 64

[R2] Yuki BHambri (IND,196) vs (2) Grega Zemlja (SLO,110)

Doubles
[R1] (3) Purav Raja (IND)/ Harri Heliovaara (FIN) bt (WC) Xin Gao (CHN)/ Zhe Li (CHN) 62 60
[R1] (4) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) bt (WC) Yu Chang (CHN)/ Di Wu (CHN) 75 67(5) 10-4

[QF] (3) Purav Raja (IND)/ Harri Heliovaara (FIN) vs Liang-Chi Huang (TPE)/ Tsung-Hua Yang (TPE)
[QF] (4) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs Nikolaus Moser (AUT)/ Ruan Roelofse (RSA)

Despite struggling with his serve good win by Yuki in very close match against Heliovaara ... In the first set Yuki saved a break point on his serve and take crucial break on Heliovaara's serve in 12th game ... In the second set Heliovaara broke Yuki in 3rd game but Yuki immediately broke him and brought the set back on the serve ... Yuki again broke Heliovaara when he was serving for staying in the match in 10 th game ... In this set Yuki saved 10 break points from 11 he faced on his serve and converted 2 from 5 break points on Heliovaara serve ... Next he is facing 2nd seed Grega Zemlja.

Very contrasting wins for our pairs against local wild-card pairs ... Purav and his patner lost only 2 games in their match ... Next they r facing Taipei pair ... Other hand Yuki and Divij needed big fight to beat Chinese pair ... After winning the first set our pair lost the second in tie-break but in match tie-break our pair was lot better from Chinese pair ... Next they r facing Austrian and South African combination.
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At $10K India F12 Futures, Chennai

[R2] (1) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND,397) bt Sidharth RAWAT (IND,963) 63 62
[R2] (6) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,756) bt Chih-Jen HO (TPE,1312) 61 60
[R2] (4) Antoine ESCOFFIER (FRA,568) bt Elbert SIE (INA,874) 64 67(4) 60
[R2] Perakiat SIRILUETHAIWATTANA (THA,941) bt Yang LU (CHN,1225) 62 63
[R2] (Q) Ajai SELVARAJ (IND,1312) bt Jeson PATROMBON (PHI,889) 60 06 76(3)
[R2] (3) Saketh MYNENI (IND,505) bt Kaza Vinayak SHARMA (IND,946) 46 63 61
[R2] (7) Hyun-Woo NAM (KOR,776) bt (Q) Bastien FAVIER (FRA,1787) 76(5) 36 63
[R2] (Q) Arjun KADHE (IND,UNR) bt (2) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,473) 63 46 75

Doubles
[QF] (1) Weerapat DOAKMAIKLEE (THA)/ Perakiat SIRILUETHAIWATTANA (THA) bt Chih-Jen HO (TPE)/ Yang LU (CHN) 63 61
[QF] Antoine ESCOFFIER (FRA)/ Bastien FAVIER (FRA) bt (3) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND)/ N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND) 2-0 Retd.
[QF] (4) Kaza Vinayak SHARMA (IND)/ Ashwin VIJAYRAGAVAN (IND) bt Tejas CHAUKULKAR (IND)/ Arjun KADHE (IND) 36 75 10-8
[QF] (2) Saketh MYNENI (IND)/ Arun-Prakash RAJAGOPALAN (IND) bt Jeson PATROMBON (PHI)/ Chieh-Fu WANG (TPE) 62 60

Our two qualifiers in the quarters ... Arjun Kadhe scored huge upset win over his senior Ranjeet in well fought match ... This was Arjun's first win over top 500 player ... Ajai Selvaraj also scored upset win over Filipino ... He will face Saketh, who needed three sets to beat Kaza ... Jeevan and Vijay Sundar scored comfortable win over their respective opponents.
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At $10K USA F22 Futures, Decatur, Illnois

[R1] (3) Sanam Singh (IND,436) bt Sebastien Boltz (FRA,632) 46 76(6) 63

Sanam needed comeback victory to beat 600+ Frenchman ... After losing the first set Sanam dug deep to win next set in tie-break ... Sanam won the final set more comfortably.

Olympics News
At London Olympics 2012, England

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Olympics News
At London Olympics 2012, England

Shooting - Men's 10m Air Rifle

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

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

Archery - Women's Individual

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

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

Badminton

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

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

Boxing - Men's Light Heavy (81kg)

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

Men's Hockey - Group B

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

Tennis

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tennis News
At $10K India F12 Futures, Chennai

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

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

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

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

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

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

Olympics News
At London Olympics 2012, England

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Olympics News
At London Olympics 2012, England

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tennis News
At $125K Astana Challenger, Kazakhstan

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

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

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

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

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

Olympics News
At London Olympics 2012, England

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tennis News
At $125K Astana Challenger, Kazakhstan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Olympics News
At London Olympics 2012, England

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

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

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

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

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

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At $125K Astana Challenger, Kazakhstan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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At $125K Astana Challenger, Kazakhstan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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