Badminton News -
Malaysia Open 2006

Arvind produced big upset in 2nd round defeating world no. 7, Kenneth Jonassen, but couldn't continued his good run and lost to german in next round.

Saina and Anup fought hard against their respective very tough opponents ... Now only our doubles pair is remaining in the tournament.

Women -
[R1] NEHWAL Saina (IND,45) l YAO Jie (NED,7) 21-9 19-21 11-21

Men-Doubles-
[R2] SANAVE Thomas/KUMAR Rupesh (IND/IND) bt RAFN Bo/OEDUM Kasper (DEN/DEN) 21-17 21-19

Singles -
[R2] CASTELINO Rohan (IND) l CHAN Yan Kit (HKG) 15-21 12-21
[R2] ANAND Chetan (IND) l SMITH Andrew (ENG) 14-21 10-21
[R2] SRIDHAR Anup (IND) l LEE Chong Wei (MAS,2) 12-21 21-17 13-21
[R2] BHAT Arvind (IND) bt JONASSEN Kenneth (DEN,7) 21-16 23-21

[PQF] BHAT Arvind (IND) l SPITKO Roman (GER) 14-21 17-21

Doubles -
[QF] [R2] SANAVE Thomas/KUMAR Rupesh (IND/IND) vs LIN Woon Fui/MOHD TAZARI Mohd Fairuzizuan (MAS/MAS)
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Tennis News -
DFS CLASSIC -

[R3] (14) Sania Mirza (IND,40) l (Q) Meilen Tu (USA,119) 62 46 67(3)

[R1] Sania MIRZA (IND)/ Francesca SCHIAVONE (ITA) l Elena VESNINA (RUS)/ Zi YAN (CHN) 64 26 26
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At the Grade 1 ITF Offenbench , Germany ( Clay) -

[PQF] (2) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,36) bt William McNamee (AUS,202) 61 63
[QF] (2) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,36) vs (12) Fernando Romboli (BRA,85)
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Rupesh Roy is playing at the USTA International grass courts (Grade-3 ITF) at the Philadelphia cricket club grass courts. He is defending champion and the top seed.

[R1] (1) Rupesh Roy (IND,56) bt Ryan Cheung (USA,780) 61 62
[R2] (1) Rupesh Roy (IND,56) bt Ryan Lipman (USA,1057) 61 64
[QF] (1) Rupesh Roy (IND,56) bt Adam El Mihdawy (USA,509) 63 61
[SF] (1) Rupesh Roy (IND,56) vs Bradley Cox (USA,210)
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$10K ITF Women Delhi (June 12)

Quarter Finals -
Ankita Bhambri (IND) bt Megha Vakaria (IND) 63 62
Rushmi Chakravarthi (IND) bt Sandy Gumulya (INA) 46 75 63
Ji Chun-Mei (CHN) bt Shalini Sahoo (IND) 62 62
Isha Lakhani (IND) bt Parul Goswami (IND) 62 63

Singles Semifinal -
(1)Ankita BHAMBRI (IND) bt (3)Rushmi CHAKRAVARTHI (IND) 64 36 64
(2)Isha LAKHANI (IND) bt Chun-Mei JI (CHN) 63 63

Doubles SF -
Rushmi Chakravarthi (IND)/ Megha Vakaria (IND) bt Ji Chun-Mei (CHN)/ Ren Jing (CHN) 36 63 62
Isha Lakhani (IND)/ Pichittra Thongdach (THA) vs Sandy Gumulya (INA)/ Lavinia Tananta (INA) 57 64 4-2 (stopped due to rain and dust-strom)
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At the $15K Rocklin futures in california,

[R2] (5) Harsh Mankad (IND,366) bt Eduardo Schwank (ARG,507) 26 76(3) 61

[QF] (5) Harsh Mankad (IND,366) vs (Q) Alberto Francis (USA,579)
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Golf News -

US Open -
Only Montgomerie managed to scored sub par round on tough Winged Foot’s West Course ... Tiger is +6, Goosen is +7, Ernie is +4 and Vijay is +1 after first round.

Jeev had a birdie, 2 bogey and a double bogey in his round ... And Jyoti had 2 birdies and 9 bogeys.

The 2006 U.S. Open Championship
1 MONTGOMERIE, Colin 69 -1
T2 FURYK, Jim 70 E
T2 MICKELSON, Phil 70 E
T2 STRICKER, Steve 70 E
T2 JIMENEZ, Miguel Angel 70 E
T2 HOWELL, David 70 E

T28 SINGH, Jeev Milkha 73 +3
T90 RANDHAWA, Jyoti 77 +7