Indian Sports Update -

Table Tennis -
Indian men's team performed poorly ... Really disappointed performance from our team ... First they loose to young English side in pre-quarterfinals and squandered the chance to qualify for the Division I.

India l England 2-3
Soumyadeep Roy bt Paul Drinkhall 11-3 9-11 11-9 11-9
Sharath Kamal l Darius Knight 6-11 11-6 10-12 10-12
Shubhajit Saha l Andrew Baggely 11-7 7-11 8-11 12-14
Sharath Kamal bt Paul Drinkhall 8-11 8-11 11-7 11-9 11-4
Soumyadeep Roy l Darius Knight 6-11 11-7 4-11 11-13

After loosing match against England, our boys continued poor performance in play-offs ... They began disastrously against Argentina with Sharath Kamal and Subhajit Saha losing the first two matches against their Argentine opponents.

India l Argentina 2-3
Achanta Sharath Kamal l Liu Song 11-9 5-11 5-11 4-11
Subhajit Saha l Tabachnik Pablo 9-11 11-13 6-11
Pathik Mehta bt Alto Gaston Diego 13-11 11-3 11-6
Achanta Sharath Kamal bt Tabachnik Pablo 13-11 11-5 12-14 12-10
Subhajit Sahl a Liu Song bt 11-6 9-11 11-4 9-11 2-11

India will now play Slovenia for the 35th place.
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Shooting News -

Anjali Bhagwat earned an Olympic quota place in women's 50 m rifle three position event at the ISSF World Cup at Resende in Brazil ... Bhagwat finished fourth in the event on Saturday but was awarded the berth since the top three finishers had already qualified for Olympics to be held in Beijing, China in 2008.
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Golf News -

Final standing with earning after Korean APGA tournament
T3 Amandeep JOHL (IND) 69 69 70 66 -14 $34,375.00
T25 Gaurav GHEI (IND) 72 70 69 72 -5 $6,171.00
T69 Rahil GANGJEE (IND) 71 70 76 75 +4 $1,182.00

Amandeep played flawlwss round to finished in top 3 ... But more liked Gaurav's fight back after horrible 4th hole.
With this top 3 finish Amandeep moved to 15th position in UBS Order Merit Asia Tour 2006.

And Jeev finished his day on even round and remianed tied 10 at JPGA tour event.
T10 Jeev Milkha Singh 64 69 69 70 -8 ￥3,024,000
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Tennis News -

Estoril Open ( Tier IV) :-
[Q1] Shikha Uberoi (IND,183) bt (4) Maria Emilia Salerni(ARG.) (118) 60 75
[Q2] Shikha Uberoi (IND,183) bt Mathilde Johansson(170, FRA) 60 62

[Q3] Shikha Uberoi (IND,183) vs Ana Vrljic (CRO,251)