Tennis News -
At Australian Open 2008,

[SF] (6) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Mark Knowles (BAH) l (8) Jonathan Erlich (ISR)/ Andy Ram (ISR) 46 46

Mixed Doubles -
[SF] Sania Mirza (IND)/ Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) bt (8) Nathalie Dechy (FRA)/ Andy Ram (ISR)
Junior Boys -
[QF] (8) Yuki Bhambri (IND,17) bt (3) Daniel Evans (GBR,10) 76(5) 46 63

[SF] (8) Yuki Bhambri (IND,17) vs (5) Bernard Tomic (AUS,5)

After their yesterday's match I was thinking about tough schedule for Bhupathi & Knowles ... They didn't get a time to fully recover from their 2' 24" match against Bryans, inside 14 hrs they were back on the court ... Still creditable performance of reaching AO semis, we can safely hope better results from Bhupathi & Knowles in season 2008.

What one can say about Yuki!!! Amazing result from this 15 yrs old kid ... As PKB mentioned, Yuki is already achieved what nobody in Indian tennis ever achieve at 15 yrs age (being Asia/Oceania junior champion and the SF of a junior Slam) ... Karan was the last Indian tennis player to make the SF of the AO or any other Slam juniors in 2004 ... But Karan did it in his final year as a junior, Yuki is eligible to play junior Slams for TWO more years, so he has at least 11 more Slam junior events to go.
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At $50K Waikoloa Challengers, HI, USA

[R1] (Q) UBEROI Neha (USA,312) bt (PR) SCHAUL Claudine (LUX,480) 64 64

[R2] (Q) UBEROI Neha (USA,312) vs (7) KLOESEL Sandra (GER,162)

Another exciting win over Luxembourg player, who was inside top-50 in 2004.
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At $10K Great Britain F2 Futures, Sheffield

[QF] (1) KRKOSKA Jiri (CZE)/ RAJA Purav (IND) bt BERGMAN Carl (SWE)/ KUMLIN Daniel (SWE) 64 76(1)

[SF] (1) KRKOSKA Jiri (CZE)/ RAJA Purav (IND) vs BURQUIER Gregoire (FRA)/ REIX Clement (FRA)
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At $15K China F2, Dong Guan

[R2] (5) AMRITRAJ Prakash (IND,278) l Woong-Sun JUN (KOR,341) 46 63 36

Doubles -
[SF] SHOKEEN Vivek (IND)/ VEJMELKA Adam (CZE) l LORENZI Paolo (ITA)/ PETRAZZUOLO Giancarlo (ITA) 46 46
[SF] KONDO Hiroki (JPN)/ RASTOGI Karan (IND) l (2) NIELSEN Frederik (DEN)/ NORBY Rasmus (DEN) 26 16
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Hockey News -
At 8 Nations Invitational Tournament, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

India bt Germany 5-1

Goal Scored - Diwakar Ram (IND) (PC) 9' & 50', Pramod Kumar (IND) 12', Dharamveer Singh (IND) 61', Lalit Upadhyar (IND) 70' and Robert Marx (GER) 57'

Other matches -
Holland bt Malaysia 4-0
New Zealand bt South Korea 5-4
Australia bt Pakistan 6-4

With this win Indian juniors r almost secure place in the final ... Currently they r leading the standing by 2 pts.
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Chess News -
At Corus Chess 2008,

Round 10 - Wednesday the 23rd (grandmaster group A)
L. van Wely - M. Carlsen 0-1
V. Anand - P. Leko ½-½
V. Kramnik - B. Gelfand ½-½
T. Radjabov - V. Topalov ½-½
S. Mamedyarov - J. Polgar ½-½
P. Eljanov - V. Ivanchuk 0-1
M. Adams - L. Aronian ½-½

Round 10 - Wednesday the 23rd (grandmaster group B)
P. Harikrishna - G. Sargissian ½-½
Y. Hou - H. Koneru ½-½

Anand managed draw against GM Peter Leko playing with whites ... But Carlsen scored victory so he again jumped into lead by ½ pts over Aronian and by 1 pts over Anand .. So now friday's match against Carlsen is very important for Anand, where he will play with blacks.

Humpy and Hari only managed to draw their respective games ... So after 10 rounds Hari is T5 with 5½ pts and Humpy is on T9 with 4½ pts.

In grandmaster group C event, Parimarjan Negi win against lowest rank player Dennis Ruijgrok of Netherlands ... But the leader lost in group C, so Negi is T2 nd position with 6½ pts ... Only ½ pts behind leader.
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Football News -
At I-League 2007-2008, India

Sporting Clube De Goa dw Salgaocar Sports Club 1-1

Goal Scored - Felix Chimaokwu (Sal) 26' and Denzil Franco (SCG) 65'

MoM - Felix Chimaokwu (Sal)
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Viva Kerala l Mahindra United 0-2

Goal Scored - Andrews P. Mensah (MU) 47', Mohammed Rafi (MU) 72'

MoM - Andrews P. Mensah (MU)
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Golf News -
At Qatar Masters, Doha, Qatar - First Round (EPGA Tour)

T10 RANDHAWA Jyoti 70 -2
T59 KAPUR Shiv 73 +1
T78 SINGH Jeev Milkha 74 +2