Monday, June 18, 2007

Tennis News -
At Wimbledon 2007,

[Q1] Rohan Bopanna (IND,266) vs (19) Wesley Moodie (RSA,139)

Doubles -
[Q1] (6) Rohan Bopanna (IND,147)/ Lovro Zovko (CRO,88) vs Flavio Cipolla (ITA,126)/ Konstantinos Economidis (GRE,179)
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At € 353,450 Ordina Open, s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands

[R1] (1) DAMM Martin (CZE)/ PAES Leander (IND) vs BENNETEAU Julien (FRA)/ VILDER Nicolas (FRA)
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At € 353,450 the Nottingham Open, England

[R1] (4) BHUPATHI Mahesh (IND)/ GIMELSTOB Justin (USA) vs (WC) GOODALL Joshua (GBR)/ HUTCHINS Ross (GBR)
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At $600K Tier-II Eastbourne Open, England

[Q2] UBEROI Neha (USA,241) l (9) NAKAMURA Aiko (JPN,83) 36 06
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At $25K the Mecco Cup, Allentown, PA

[F] (Q) RAO Sunitha (IND)/ FUDA Ryoko (JPN) bt (4) HAYNES Angela (USA)/ LEE-WATERS Lindsay (USA) 67(3) 64 61
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At $10K Montemor-O-Novo, Portugal

[F] (2) IYER Tara (IND,452) bt (4) BALSAMO Elisa (ITA,540) 64 76(5)

So with that Tara won her first futures title in her first futures final ... Very good result considering this title she won in Europe is only 2nd title won by Indian girl after Sania.
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Golf News -
At the 107th US Open, Oakmont - Final Standing

T36 Jeev Milkha Singh 75 75 73 75 +18 $ 37,159
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Basketball News -
At FIBA (Level II) Asian Championship for Women, Incheon, Korea

Preliminary Rounds Level II -

India bt Singapore 111-32 (Geethu Anna Jose (IND) 33pts & 14rbs)
India bt Vietnam 111-62 (Geethu Anna Jose (IND) 34pts & 21rbs)
India bt Uzbekistan 67-63 (Geethu Anna Jose (IND) 27pts, 20rbs & 2 asts)
India bt Hong Kong 88-61 (Geethu Anna Jose (IND) 27pts & 14rbs)
India bt Sri Lanka 105-56 (Geethu Anna Jose (IND) 29pts)

Final Qualifying Match -
India bt Malaysia 86-68 (Geethu Anna Jose (IND) 47pts & 12rbs)

With dominating Level II Asian Championship at Incheon, Korea; India booked their place for next edition's Level I (elite group) after gap of 17 yrs. India is joining Korea, China, Japan, Chinese Taipei and Thailand in Level I. India's Geethu Anna Jose was leading in tournament's standing for points per game (PPG) with 32.8 and rebounds per game (RPG) with 14.8

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