Hockey News

At Odisha Hockey Men's World Cup 2018, Bhubaneswar, India

Pool A
Argentina (WR #2), Spain (WR #8), New Zealand (WR #9) and France (WR# 18)

Pool B
Australia (WR #1), England (WR #7), Ireland (WR #10) and China (WR #17)

Pool C
Belgium (WR #3), India (WR #6), Canada (WR #11) and South Africa (WR #15)

Pool D
The Netherlands (WR #4), Germany (WR #5), Malaysia (WR #12) and Pakistan (WR #13)

Indian Pool Matches Schedule
Against South Africa - 28th November 2018
Against Belgium - 2nd December 2018
Against Canada - 8th December 2018

Men's World Cup 2018 will be played between November 28th to December 16th 2018 at Bhubaneswar ... A decent draw for us as we r in Group C with Belgium, Canada and South Africa.

Tennis News

At $3M Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships 2018, UAE

[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) l (4) Raven Klaasen (RSA)/ Michael Venus (NZL) 46 63 6-10
[R1] (WC) Jamie Cerretani (USA)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt (LL) Andreas Haider-Maurer (AUT)/ Florian Mayer (GER) 63 61
[R1] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Yuichi Sugita (JPN) l Marcin Matkowski (POL)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) 57 16

[QF] (WC) Jamie Cerretani (USA)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs (4) Raven Klaasen (RSA)/ Michael Venus (NZL)

The wild-card paring of Lee and Cerretani started with a dominating win over Haider-Maurer and Mayer ... Next, they r facing the 4th seed Klaasen and Venus.

Rohan-Edouard lost in the match tie-break against 4th seed pair ... Divij-Sugita lost in a straight sets against veterans Aisam-Matkowski.

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At $150K+H Indian Wells Challenger 2018, USA

[QF] (4) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) l Liam Broady (GBR)/ Matt Reid (AUS) 36 46

Jeevan-Purav lost in a straight sets against Reid-Broady.

Snooker News

At £366K Welsh Open 2018, Cardiff, Wales

[R1] Aditya Mehta (IND,79) bt Martin O'Donnell (ENG,84) 4-3 (46-90(70), 0-77(52), 34-69(58), 80(80)-1, 62-28, 65-18, 59-20)

[R2] Aditya Mehta (IND,81) vs (7) Mark Williams (WAL,6)

Aditya scored a superb comeback win over O'Donnell after 0-3 down ... O'Donnell scored a three 50+ breaks in first 3 frames to win it ... Aditya kept his composure and scored 80 points break to win the fourth frame ... Aditya played a smart game on the green and won next three frames for winning this match ... In the second round, Aditya having a tough match against former WR #1 Mark Williams.

Tennis News

At $150K+H Indian Wells Challenger 2018, USA

[R1] (4) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt (WC) Taylor Fritz (USA)/ Reilly Opelka (USA) 62 76(7)

[QF] (4) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Liam Broady (GBR)/ Matt Reid (AUS)

Purav-Jeevan scored a straight sets win over big serving American youngsters ... In the quarters, they r facing British-Aussie pairing of Broady and Reid.

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At $75K Yokohama Challenger 2018, Japan

[R1] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,242) l (1) Jordan Thompson (AUS,95) 62 46 36

Doubles
[R1] (2) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Yasutaka Uchiyama (JPN) l Tobias Kamke (GER)/ Tim Puetz (GER)

Prajnesh missed a big opportunity of scoring top-100 win ... After winning the first set he was 4-2 break up, but he lost next four games to lose the set ... Jordan kept this momentum for winning the third.

In the doubles, German pair proved a strong to Bala and Uchiyama.

Golf News

At $6.6M The Honda Classic 2018, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, USA (PGA Tour)

T59 Anirban Lahiri (IND) 73 71 71 74 +9 $14,388.00

Anirban's struggle in the last round continues ... Here also he managed 4 over and ended up above 50 in the final standing.

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At AUD $350K Ladies Classic Bonville 2018, Australia (LET Tour)

T31 Sharmila Nicollet (IND) 70 76 72 74 +4 AUD $2,203.85

Sharmila missed a top-25 finish as she managed 2 over in the final round.

Tennis News

At $3M Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships 2018, UAE

[Q2] (2) Yuki Bhambri (IND,101) l (7) Yannick Maden (BEL,142) 16 16

This was a winnable match for Yuki ... I am shocked seeing this one-sided loss of Yuki against Maden ... Big missed opportunity of qualifying and earning chunk of ranking points.

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At $150K+H Indian Wells Challenger 2018, USA

[R1] (4) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs (WC) Taylor Fritz (USA)/ Reilly Opelka (USA)

This week, Jeevan is partnering Purav in big challenger and they r facing big serving American youngsters in the first round.

Badminton News

At $150K YONEX Swiss Open 2018, Basel, Switzerland (BWF World Tour Super 300)

[R1] (2) Sameer Verma (IND,46) bt Thomas Rouxel (FRA,74) 22-20 21-10
[R2] (2) Sameer Verma (IND,46) bt Yu Igarashi (JPN,58) 11-21 21-18 21-16
[QF] (2) Sameer Verma (IND,46) bt Kento Momota (JPN,42)
[SF] (2) Sameer Verma (IND,46) bt Kantaphon Wangcharoen (THA,49) 21-14 11-21 21-12

Men's Singles Final
(2) Sameer Verma (IND,46) bt Jan O Jorgensen (DEN,112) 21-15 21-13

Sameer Verma lifted his big title after beating Danish Jan O Jorgensen in straight games ... Before that, he scored a couple of good win against Japanese and Thai opponents ... Guru also played qualifying and reached into the quarters.

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At $25K YONEX Austrian Open 2018, Vienna, Austria (International Challenge)

[R1] Parupalli Kashyap (IND,44) bt Gergely Krausz (HUN,91) 21-14 21-16
[R2] Parupalli Kashyap (IND,44) bt Jia Wei Tan (MAS,119) 21-15 22-20
[QF] Parupalli Kashyap (IND,44) bt (7) Victor Svendsen (SUI,77) 21-17 21-19
[SF] Parupalli Kashyap (IND,44) bt (5) Raul Must (EST,66) 21-18 21-4

Men's Singles Final
Parupalli Kashyap (IND,44) bt June Wei Cheam (MAS,126) 23-21 21-14

Kashyap lifted International challenge title in Austria beating Malaysian in straight sets ... In this tournament, Kashyap didn't lose a single game in this match ... Subhankar Dey also reached in the semis in this tournament.

Tennis News

At $3M Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships 2018, UAE

[Q1] (2) Yuki Bhambri (IND,101) bt Ivan Dodig (CRO,UNR) 62 61
[Q1] Sumit Nagal (IND,216) l (4) Blaz Kavcic (SLO,109) 62 26 0-4 retd.

[Q2] (2) Yuki Bhambri (IND,101) vs (7) Yannick Maden (BEL,142)

Doubles
[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) vs (4) Raven Klaasen (RSA)/ Michael Venus (NZL)
[R1] (WC) Jamie Cerretani (USA)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Karen Khachanov (RUS)/ Benoit Paire (FRA)
[R1] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Yuichi Sugita (JPN) vs Marcin Matkowski (POL)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK)

Yuki scored a impressive win against top doubles and former top-30 singles player Dodig ... IN the first set, Yuki was a break down 0-2 but after that, he won 12 games from next 13 games played ... In the final qualifying, he is facing Belgian Maden ... Sumit started with winning the first set but after that he lost the second and retired from the match with respartory infection, when he was 0-4 down.

In the doubles, Lee has received the wild-card with Cerretani and they r playing Khachanov and Paire ... Divij is playing with Japanese Sugita and they r facing experienced Aisam and Matkowski.

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At $1.7M Abierto Mexicano Telcel presentado por HSBC 2018, Acapulco, Mexico

[Q1] (6) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,140) l Kevin King (USA,179) 36 06

Pretty bad loss for RamK against Kevin King.

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At $75K Yokohama Challenger 2018, Japan

[R1] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,242) vs (1) Jrdan Thompson (AUS,95)

Doubles
[R1] (2) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Yasutaka Uchiyama (JPN) vs Tobias Kamke (GER)/ Tim Puetz (GER)

A tough match for Prajnesh against in-form Thompson.
This week, Bala is playing with Uchiyama and they r the 2nd seeds ... They can struggle against German pair as this is new pairing.

Tennis News

At €718K Open 13 Provence 2018, Marseille, France

[SF] (2) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) vs Marcus Daniell (NZL)/ Dominic Inglot (GBR) 16 46

A disappointing straight sets loss for Rohan-Edouard against Inglot-Daniell.

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At $50K+H Kyoto Challenger 2018, Japan

[SF] N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND) l Go Soeda (JPN)/ Yasutaka Uchiyama (JPN) 46 67(6)

Bala-Prajnesh lost in a close straight sets against experienced Japanese pair.

Squash News

At $250K Men's Windy City Open 2018, Chicago, USA

[R1] Saurav Ghosal (IND,14) l (7) Simon Rösner (GER,6) 7-11, 8-11, 4-11 (40m)

Saurav lost in straight games against Rösner ... He tried in the first 2 games but Rösner ws a better player.

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At $250K Women's Windy City Open 2018, Chicago, USA

[R1] Dipika Pallikal Karthik (IND,20) l (1) Nour El Sherbini (EGY,1) 5-11, 8-11, 1-11 (20m)
[R1] (15) Joshna Chinappa (IND,17) l Mariam Metwally (EGY,21) 5-11.6-11, 4-11 (26m)

In women's section also our challenge got over in the first round ... Dipika tried hard in the second game but WR #1 El Sherbini proved too strong for her in the third ... Joshna also lost in straight games against young Egyptian Metwally.

Tennis News

At $622K Delray Beach Open 2018, Florida, USA

[QF] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Scott Lipsky (USA) l (3) Ben McLachlan (JPN)/ Hugo Nys (FRA) 63 36 5-10

Divij-Scott lost in the match tie-break against third seeds after winning the first set.

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At $50K+H Kyoto Challenger 2018, Japan

[R2] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,242) l Tim Puetz (GER,293) 67(5) 26

Doubles
[SF] N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND) vs Go Soeda (JPN)/ Yasutaka Uchiyama (JPN)

Prajnesh failed to capitalize on his first round win but it seems he lost against a better player on the court ... In the doubles, Bala and Prajnesh r facing experienced Japanese pair.

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At $25K ITF Women's Tournament 2018, Perth, Australia

[R2] Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,278) l (8) Tereza Mrdeza (CRO,220) 75 67(3) 57

Doubles
[SF] Karman Kaur Thandi (IND)\ Jaqueline Adina Cristian (ROU) l (3) Jessica Moore (AUS)/ Olivia Tjandramulia (AUS) 67(6) 16

Karman lost in the singles and the doubles against seeded players ... In the singles, she fought tooth and nail against experienced and top-225 Mrdeza in her close loss after almost 4 hours match ... Karman won the first set but Mrdeza fought back for winning the second set in the tie-break ... Mrdeza kept momentum to win a close third set ... In the doubles, she lost in straight sets against seeded Aussie pair with her Romanian partner

Tennis News

At $622K Delray Beach Open 2018, Florida, USA

[R1] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Scot Lipsky (USA) bt Wesley Koolhof (NED)/ Artem Sitak (NZL) 76(3) 62

[QF] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Scot Lipsky (USA) vs (3) Ben McLachlan (JPN)/ Hugo Nys (FRA)

Divij-Scott started with a good win against Sitak-Koolhof, who r very regular pair on ATP tour ... Next, they r facing 3rd seed Japnese-French pair.

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At €718K Open 13 Provence 2018, Marseille, France

[QF] (2) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) bt Jamie Cerretani (USA)/ Adil Shamasdin (CAN) 36 76(3) 10-4

Rohan-Edouard in the semis after another comeback win against Cerretani-Shamasdin.

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At $50K+H Kyoto Challenger 2018, Japan

[QF] N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND) bt Zhe Li (CHN)/ Stephane Robert (FRA) 64 64

Bala-Prajnesh r in the semis, they defeated Li-Robert in the straight sets.

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At $25K ITF Women's Tournament 2018, Perth, Australia

[R1] Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,278) bt (LL) Jia-Qi Kang (CHN,370) 63 63

[R2] Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,278) vs (8) Tereza Mrdeza (CRO,220)

Doubles
[QF] Karman Kaur Thandi (IND)\ Jaqueline Adina Cristian (ROU) bt (1) Prarthana G. Thombare (IND)/ Tereza Mrdeza (CRO) 64 61

[SF] Karman Kaur Thandi (IND)\ Jaqueline Adina Cristian (ROU) vs (3) Jessica Moore (AUS)/ Olivia Tjandramulia (AUS)

Karmam scored a comfortable win over Chinese lucky loser Kang in the first round and in the doubles, partnering Adina Cristian defeated top-seeds Prarthana and her Croatian partner in the straight sets ... Next, she is facing experienced Croatian girl, Tereza Mrdeza and in the doubles, they r facing 3rd seed Aussie pair.

Tennis News

At $622K Delray Beach Open 2018, Florida, USA

[R1] Leander Paes (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) l Jack Sock (USA)/ Jackson Withrow (USA) 36 26

A bad loss for Lee-Purav ... In this match, they struggled to return Americans serve and American dominated on our players weak serve.

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At €718K Open 13 Provence 2018, Marseille, France

[R1] (2) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) bt Ken Skupski (GBR)/ Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE) 26 63 10-6

[QF] (2) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) vs Jamie Cerretani (USA)/ Adil Shamasdin (CAN)

Rohan-Edouard scored a comeback win over Skupski-Tsitsipas ... Next, they r facing pairing of Cerretani-Shamasdin.

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At $50K+H Kyoto Challenger 2018, Japan

[R1] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,242) bt (4) Stephane Robert (FRA,162) 63 16 64

[R2] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,242) vs Tim Puetz (GER,293)

Doubles
[R1] (2) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Christopher Rungkat (INA) l Zhe Li (CHN)/ Stephane Robert (FRA) 36 16

[QF] N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND) vs Zhe Li (CHN)/ Stephane Robert (FRA)

Prajnesh scored an upset win over in-form and experienced Frenchman Robert in three sets ... With this win Prajnesh opens draw for him, so hopefully he will took advantage of it ... Next, he is facing German Tim Puetz.

A surprising loss for Jeevan-Chris against Li-Robert ... Now, Bala-Prajnesh will be facing Lee-Robert.

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At $25K ITF Women's Tournament 2018, Perth, Australia

[R1] (1) Prarthana G. Thombare (IND)/ Tereza Mrdeza (CRO) bt Chihiro Muramatsu (JPN)/ Ayano Shimizu (JPN) 63 62
[R1] Karman Kaur Thandi (IND)\ Jaqueline Adina Cristian (ROU) bt Jia-Qi Kang (CHN)/ Peangtarn Plipuech (THA) 64 46 10-7

[QF] (1) Prarthana G. Thombare (IND)/ Tereza Mrdeza (CRO) vs Karman Kaur Thandi (IND)\ Jaqueline Adina Cristian (ROU)

The top-seeds Prarthana and Tereza started with a comfortable win against Japanese pair ... In the quarters, they r facing Karman and her partner Adina Cristian, who scored a win in the match tie-break against Asian pair.

Tennis News

At $622K Delray Beach Open 2018, Florida, USA

[R1] (Q) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,141) l Donald Young (USA,75) 16 26

I was hoping better performance by RamK but somehow he failed to solve Young puzzle in this match ... Young kept attacking on RamK's serve and was breaking his serve at ease ... A really bad day at office for RamK.

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At $50K+H Kyoto Challenger 2018, Japan

[R1] N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND) bt (WC) Daiki Hayashi (JPN)/ Kosuke Shibano (JPN) 75 61

Bala-Prajnesh started with a straight sets win over local wild-card pair.

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At $25K ITF Women's Tournament 2018, Perth, Australia

[R1] Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,278) vs (LL) Jia-Qi Kang (CHN,370)

Doubles
[R1] (1) Prarthana G. Thombare (IND)/ Tereza Mrdeza (CRO) vs Chihiro Muramatsu (JPN)/ Ayano Shimizu (JPN)
[R1] Karman Kaur Thandi (IND)\ Jaqueline Adina Cristian (ROU) vs Jia-Qi Kang (CHN)/ Peangtarn Plipuech (THA)

Karmam is facing Chinese lucky loser Kang in the first round and facing her in the doubles also with their respective partners ... Hoping for a better week for Prarthana with her Croatian partner.

Golf News

At $7.2M Genesis Open 2018, California, USA (PGA Tour)

T26 Anirban Lahiri (IND) 72 69 67 74 -2 $46,996.00

Anirban had a couple of good rounds to push him inside top-15 after three rounds ... But he struggled in the last round to score three over, which pushed him outside top-25 in the end.

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At $7.2M Genesis Open 2018, California, USA (PGA Tour)

T53 SSP Chawrasia (IND) 73 69 76 71 +1 € 5,178

The four over third round cost a decent finish for SSP on the European tour.

Tennis News

At $622K Delray Beach Open 2018, Florida, USA

[Q2] (8) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,141) bt (1) Bjorn Fratangelo (USA,109) 63 63

[R1] (Q) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,141) vs Donald Young (USA,75)

Doubles
[R1] Leander Paes (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Jack Sock (USA)/ Jackson Withrow (USA)
[R1] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Scot Lipsky (USA) vs Wesley Koolhof (NED)/ Artem Sitak (NZL)

RamK continued with his good performance and scored a comfortable win over top-110 ranked Fratangelo in the straight sets ... Fratangelo never found his rhythm as RamK mixed his backhand slice and net game to unsettle him ... Next, he is facing experienced American Donald Young.

A tough match for Lee-Purav against American pair ... Divij-Scott r having a decent draw.

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At €718K Open 13 Provence 2018, Marseille, France

[R1] (2) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) vs Ken Skupski (GBR)/ Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE)

Rohan-Edouard r the second seeds in Open 13 Provence.

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At $50K+H Kyoto Challenger 2018, Japan

[R1] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,242) vs (4) Stephane Robert (FRA,162)

Doubles
[R1] N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND) vs (WC) Daiki Hayashi (JPN)/ Kosuke Shibano (JPN)
[R1] (2) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Christopher Rungkat (INA) vs Zhe Li (CHN)/ Stephane Robert (FRA)

Only Prajnesh is in the singles main-draw and having a tough match against 4th seed Robert.

This week, Vishnu is not playing so Bala is partnering Prajnesh and they r playing local wild-cards ... Jeevan and Chris r 2nd seed and our both pairs can face each-other in the quarters if they win the first round.

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At $25K ITF Women's Tournament 2018, Perth, Australia

[R1] Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,278) vs Qualifier

Karman is facing a qualifier in the first round.

Squash News

At $10K Men's 20th Atlanta Open 2018 2018, USA

[R1] (2) Vikram Malhotra (IND,68) bt Syed Hamzah Shah Bukhari (PAK,161) 8-11, 11-5, 11-4, 11-6
[QF] (2) Vikram Malhotra (IND,68) bt (5) Michael McCue (CAN,103) 11-4, 11-0, 11-4
[SF] (2) Vikram Malhotra (IND,68) bt (Q) Edgar Zayas (MEX,212) 8-11, 11-3, 11-6, 9-11, 11-8

Final
(2) Vikram Malhotra (IND,68) bt Mohamed Reda (EGY,58) 13-11, 11-9, 15-13

In the last week, Vikram lifted a $10K title in US after beating higher ranked Egyptian in a closely fought three games.

Tennis News

At $622K Delray Beach Open 2018, Florida, USA

[Q1] (8) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,141) bt Stefan Kozlov (USA,158) 63 62

[Q2] (8) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,141) vs (1) Bjorn Fratangelo (USA,109)

In their last meeting Kozlov defeated RamK losing three games ... This time, RamK turned a table and scored a dominating win over Kozlov ... RamK showed a lot of improvement in his game, so his training stint is showing improvements in his game ... Next, he is facing top-110 Fratangelo for place in the main-draw.

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At $733K Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships 2018, UAE

[Q1] Ankita Raina (IND,253) l (3) Samantha Stosur (AUS,44) 46 46

A decent fight from Ankita against former top-5 player ... In this match, both players created ten break point chances, Stosur converted four and Ankita managed to convert only two.

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At $50K+H Chennai Challenger 2018, India

Singles Final
(2) Yuki Bhambri (IND,112) l (1) Jordan Thompson (AUS,107) 57 63 57

Yuki had a poor service day and Thompson took advantage of it to win the title ... In this match, both players had a lot of service breaks, exactly 8 breaks each ... In the first set, both players exchanged couple of breaks and Thompson took a crucial break in the 12th game for winning it ... In the second set, Yuki broke Thompson in the 1st game to lead 2-0 but lost his serve in the 4th game for 2-all ... Yuki again broke Thompson in the 5th game and won the set breaking him in the 9th game when he was serving to stay in the set ... In the third set, Thompson was a double break up after breaking Yuki in the 1st and the 3rd game, 0-3 ... Yuki fought back and broke Thompson in the 4th and the 6th games for 3-all ... Thompson again broke Yuki in the 7th game but this time also Yuki broke him in the next for 4-all ... Yuki missed a match point in the 10th game on Thompson's serve ... Then, Thompson took a crucial break in the 11th game and hold comfortably for a win.

Winter Olympics 2018

At the XXIII Olympic Winter Games, Pyeongchang, South Korea

P.C. to scroll.in

Men's 15-km free cross-country skiing race
103 Jagdish Singh (IND) 43.03 minutes

India’s Jagdish Singh finished 103rd out of 119 athletes who took part in the men’s 15 km free cross-country skiing race at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea ... His finish time of 43:00.3 was nine minutes and 16.4 seconds slower than the gold medallist, Switzerland’s Dario Cologna (33:43.9) ... This was the 26-year-old Jagdish’s first Winter Olympics campaign ... It was quite amazing that he have even managed to reach Pyeongchang ... Jagdish did not have a proper racing suit and equipment two days prior to the race ... He bought equipment and gear worth Rs 72,000 in Pyeongchang and doesn’t know whether he will be reimbursed for it.

Tennis News

At $50K+H Chennai Challenger 2018, India

P.C. to Balaji's FB page

[SF] (2) Yuki Bhambri (IND,112) bt (3) Duckhee Lee (KOR,207)

[F] (2) Yuki Bhambri (IND,112) vs (1) Jordan Thompson (AUS,107)

Doubles Final
(2) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) bt Cem Ilkel (TUR)/ Danilo Petrovic (SRB) 76(5) 57 10-5

Yuki scored a straight sets win over Duckhee ... In the first set, Yuki needed to wait till the 11th game for breaking Duckhee's serve and then he hold his serve in the 12th game for winning the set ... In the second set, Yuki broke Duckhee in the 3rd game to lead 3-1 and then he again broke Duckhee in 7th game and then hold his serve for winning the match ... In the final, the top two seeds will be playing for entering into the top-100, as winner will entered into the top-100.

Bala and Vishnu lifted their first title of 2018 ... In the final, they defeated Ilkel-Petrovic in the match tie-break ... The first 2 sets were closely fought which split between both pairs ... Bala-Vishnu won the first set in tie-break, but Ilkel-Petrovic won the second set breaking Bala-Vishnu in the 12th game ... Bala-Vishnu recovered for winning the match tie-break comfortably.

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At $15K ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2017, Mallorca, Spain

[Q1] Snehadevi S.Reddy (IND,UNR) bt Nora Ayala Serra (ESP,UNR) 63 63
[Q2] Snehadevi S.Reddy (IND,UNR) bt (4) Lucia Marzal Martinez (ESP,1014) 76(2) 63
[Q3] Snehadevi S.Reddy (IND,UNR) bt (13) Angeles Moreno Barranquero (ESP,1223) 76(2) 63

[R1] Snehadevi S.Reddy (IND,UNR) bt Rosa Vicens Mas (ESP,863) 63 retd.
[R2] Snehadevi S.Reddy (IND,UNR) bt (2) Estrella Cabeza-Candela (ESP,343) 63 46 62

[QF] Snehadevi S.Reddy (IND,UNR) l (5) Irene Burillo Escorihuela (ESP,441) 26 36

Snehadevi produced some excellent results this week in Spain ... She defeated talented five Spanish girls, in that top-350 Cabeza-Candela, before losing in the quarters.