Tennis News -
Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group I 2008,

Our team is declared for the tie against Uzbekistan at Delhi from 8th February 2008 ... Leander is playing as a non-playing captain due to foot injury which occurred during second round of Australian Open doubles match.

Indian Team - Leander Paes (Non-playing captain)
Rohan Bopanna, Prakash Amritraj, Mahesh Bhupathi, Somdev Dev Varman
Coach - Nandan Bal
Reserve Players - Ashotosh Singh & Vishnu Vardhan (who will with team during Delhi tie.)
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At Australian Open 2008,

Mixed Doubles -
[R2] Sania Mirza (IND)/ Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) bt (2) Lisa Raymond (USA)/ Simon Aspelin (SWE) 63 26 10(7)

[QF] Sania Mirza (IND)/ Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) vs (7) Kveta Peschke (CZE)/ Martin Damm (CZE)

Juniors -
[R2] (Q) Karunuday Singh (IND,103) l (10) Tsung-Hua Yang (TPE,19) 67(4) 46
[R2] (8) Yuki Bhambri (IND,17) bt Zalan Klempa (SVK,74) 36 64 62

[R3] (8) Yuki Bhambri (IND,17) vs Tadayuki Longhi (JPN,45)

After initial problems Yuki responded well to Slovakian's game to move in to third round of Australian Open ... In R3 Yuki is facing Japanese unranked opponent, who defeated 9th seeded Australian Matt Reid in the first round ... Good opportunity for Yuki to move into his first junior grandslam quarter-final.

Karunuday lost, but considering the #106 was playing the #18 managed to give the close match was a positive ... Last few months he is giving very consistent results and showing improvement in his game through results ... A very nice run making the main draw as a qualifier and reaching the second round.

So scoring win in super tiebreak Mahesh and Sania enters into quarter-finals of MXD ... Now they will face 7th seed Czech pair of Peschke and Damm.
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At $50K Waikoloa Challengers, HI, USA

[Q3] (7) UBEROI Neha (USA,312) bt (1) SCHIECHTL Tina (AUT,247) 75 63

[R1] (Q) UBEROI Neha (USA,312) vs SCHAUL Claudine (LUX,480)

Doubles -
[R1] UBEROI Neha (USA)/ ESPERON Soledad (ARG) vs CZINK Melinda (HUN)/ DITTY Julie (USA)

Neha continues with her newly found form beating top-seed Austrian player Tina Schiechtl in straight sets showing her last round's win against past Wimbledon quarter-finalist Stevenson wasn't fluke.

In maindraw she is facing Claudine Schaul, who is playing with injury protected ranking.
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At $15K China F2, Dong Guan

Doubles -
[R1] SHOKEEN Vivek (IND)/ VEJMELKA Adam (CZE) bt BALLERET Benjamin (MON)/ LISNARD Jean-Rene (MON) 64 75
[R1] KONDO Hiroki (JPN)/ RASTOGI Karan (IND) bt BRIZZI Alberto (ITA)/ MARCHENKO Ilya (UKR) 64 36 13(11)
[R1] AMRITRAJ Prakash (IND)/ CHEN Ti (TPE) bt (3) FISCHER Martin (AUT)/ OSWALD Philipp (AUT) 63 75

[QF] SHOKEEN Vivek (IND)/ VEJMELKA Adam (CZE) vs (4) VAN DER DUIM Antal (NED)/ WEINTRAUB Amir (ISR)
[QF] AMRITRAJ Prakash (IND)/ CHEN Ti (TPE) vs KONDO Hiroki (JPN)/ RASTOGI Karan (IND)
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Hockey News -
At 8 Nations Invitational Tournament, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

India bt Australia 2-1

Goal Scored - Diwakar Ram (IND) (PC) 32', Gurwinder Singh Chandi (IND) 61' and Joshua Pollard (AUS) 58'

Other matches -
Pakistan dw Holland 1-1
Malaysia dw South Korea 1-1
Germany bt New Zealand 7-0
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Football News -
At I-League 2007-2008, India

East Bengal l Mohun Bagan 0-2

Goal Scored - Bhaichung Bhutia (MB) 29' & 62'

MoM - Bhaichung Bhutia (MB)