Tennis News -

$15K ITF India Futures - Dehradun

Singles -
Semi- Finals -
(3)Nick Monroe (USA) bt (1)Henry Adjei-Darko (GHA) 64 63
(6)Sunil Kumar Sipaeya (IND) bt Vivek Shokeen (IND) 63 63

Final -
(3)Nick Monroe (USA) d. (6)Sunil Kumar Sipaeya (IND) 46 61 63

Doubles -
Final -
Vinod Sridhar (IND)/ Vishaal Uppal (IND) bt Mustafa Ghouse (IND)/ Sunil Kumar (IND) 75 64
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French Open -

Mens Doubles -
[R2] Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) / Xavier Malisse (BEL) bt (12) Jose Acasuso (ARG) / Sebastian Prieto (ARG) 64 63

MX Doubles -
[R1] Martina Hingis (SUI)/ Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) bt Sofia Arvidsson (SWE)/ Stephen Huss (AUS) 75 62
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Golf News -
Jeev managed to joined Jyoti for weekend ... Jeev must be relieved to find himself playing this weekend.

The Celtic Manor Wales Open - Second Round
1 KARLSSON Robert SWE 61 63 -14
T2 ARCHER Phillip ENG 60 68 -10
T2 BROADHURST Paul ENG 64 64 -10
T2 DYSON Simon ENG 66 62 -10

T58 RANDHAWA, Jyoti * IND 67 70 -1
T58 SINGH, Jeev Milkha IND 68 69 -1
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Today Jeev had so-so round ... had 2 bogeys and 2 birdies ... Other hand Jyoti had wonderful round of 3 under ... In which he scored 5 birdies and 2 bogeys ... Jyoti having big opportunity to finish in top 20.

The Celtic Manor Wales Open - Third Round

T27 RANDHAWA, Jyoti IND 67 70 66 -4
T47 SINGH, Jeev Milkha IND 68 69 69 -1
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Chess News -

Indian men's poor performance continue in ongoing Chess Olympiad ... :( Yesterday they lost against Israel 1-3 and now with 25.5 pts they r lying at 26th position.

Other hand our Women continue with their good performance to beat Romania 2-1 and r at 5th position.
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Hockey News -

Groups for World Cup r declared ... And India has been placed in the relatively easier Pool 'B' ... The groupings were made based on the IHF rankings, in which India is ranked sixth.

Pool 'A'
Australia, Spain, Pakistan, Argentina, New Zealand, Japan

Pool 'B'
Netherlands, Germany, India, South Korea, South Africa, England
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Billiard News -
Geet Sethi again show the world where he belongs ... He won his 5th World Pro title in Billiards after 7 years gap ... He defeated England's Lee Lagan by over 1000 points in the five-hour final in 3 balls game.
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Cricket News -

India 235/9
Dravid 49, Sehwag 36, Laxman 29 ... Bravo 4/39, Collymore 3/27