Tennis News -

So newly updated ranking after Australian Open 2008, Somdev Dev Varman jumped 253 places in singles ranking after US F1 title win to #784 ... With his reaching doubles third round performance Rohan first-time breaks into top-60 doubles ranking and his partner, Rajeev Ram, first-time jumped inside top-50 in doubles ranking, he is on #49 ... Aisam is in #78 in doubles and #129 in singles.

Sania climbed to #29 to become Asia's No. 1 ... Lee dropped 3 positions and Mahesh climbed 2 positions in doubles ranking.

ATP Singles Ranking as on 28th January 2008 (Ranking, Name, Points)
267 Amritraj Prakash 145
288 Bopanna Rohan 131
416 Sipaeya Sunil Kumar 75
466 Rastogi Karan 59
564 Singh Ashutosh 39

ATP Doubles Ranking as on 28th January 2008
15 Paes Leander 2695
19 Bhupathi Mahesh 2390
56 Bopanna Rohan 943
216 Ghouse Mustafa 269
259 Amritraj Stephen 216

WTA Singles Ranking as on 28th January 2008
29 MIRZA SANIA 931.00
195 RAO SUNITHA 147.00
332 UBEROI NEHA 65.00
349 LAKHANI ISHA 62.00
375 IYER TARA 55.00

WTA Doubles Ranking as on 28th January 2008
23 MIRZA SANIA 1680.00
122 RAO SUNITHA 316.00
181 UBEROI NEHA 200.00
311 IYER TARA 90.00
391 BHAMBRI SANAA 59.00
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At $10K Great Britain F3, Tipton

[Q3] Harsh Mankad (IND,UNR) bt (1) Chris Eaton (GBR,657) 76(2) 61
[Q3] (3) Navdeep Singh (IND,743) l Sean Thornley (GBR,1273) 16 16
[Q3] (5) Purav Raja (IND,864) l Wojciech Starakiewicz (POL,UNR) 16 46

[R1] (Q) MANKAD Harsh (IND,NR) vs (3) KRETSCHMER Gero (GER,594)

Doubles -
[R1] (2) KRKOSKA Jiri (CZE)/ RAJA Purav (IND) Bye

Very good quality win against tougher opponent ... But worrying part was, Harsh need to taped his knee after first set .... In first round Harsh playing against German player, who defeated him in the Great Britain F1.
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At $50K China TCL Challenger, Guangzhou

[Q2] SHOKEEN Vivek (IND,699) bt NAM Hyun-Woo (KOR,539) 67(7) 64 63
[Q3] SHOKEEN Vivek (IND,699) l (3) PETRAZZUOLO Giancarlo (ITA,389) 67(4) 16

Doubles -
[R1] AMRITRAJ Prakash (IND)/ GHOUSE Mustafa (IND) l FISCHER Martin (AUT)/ OSWALD Philipp (AUT) 75 36 (7)10

Vivek lost in the final qualifying round after producing couple of good wins ... Kash and Moose lost against Austrian pair ... Rohan's match is schedule for tomorrow against Danai.
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Golf News -
At Panama Championship - Final Standing (Nationwide Tour)

T2 Arjun Atwal 70 66 68 74 -2 $ 52,800.00

Considering his recent form in middle of controversy, we should saygood start for 2008 Nationwide season for Arjun to finished T2 ... He was only needed PAR round to capture the title, but I feel he tried to attack the course which produced 4 bogeys on front 9.