Cricket News -

Indian U-19 team reached final of U-19 Cricket World Cup final beating New Zealand in tense match ... India won by 3 wickets and 1.3 overs margin ... Captain Virat Kohli declared Man of the Match becoz of his all-round performance.
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Tennis News -
At $1.5M Dubai Tennis Championships, UAE

[R2] (WC) Sania Mirza (IND,32) l (4) Jelena Jankovic (SRB,4) 64 36 46

Sania had opportunity in this match as Jelena was struggling with her game ... In third set also 2 times Sania was leading with break of Jelena's serve but everytime Jelena made comeback breaking Sania's weak serve ... But overall this match gave more positives about improvement in Sania's game and importantly she was playing without any injury scare.
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At $15K India F2 Futures, New Delhi

Singles Second Round -
SINGH Navdeep (IND,737) bt SHARAN Divij (IND,659) 64 75
KEDRYUK Alexey (KAZ,606) bt (8) RASTOGI Karan (IND,512) 36 63 61

(3) ALCAIDE Guillermo (ESP,342) bt (Q) UZAKOV Vaja (UZB,904) 67(9) 62 63
(Q) GAJJAR Rohan (IND,1103) bt (Q) PENG Hsien-Yin (TPE,1219) 76(2) 76(7)

(6) SUN Peng (CHN,497) bt (WC) SRIDHAR Vinod (IND,1158) 46 62 62
(Q) IVANOV Simeon (BUL,942) bt (4) ENEV Todor (BUL,458) 63 60

(7) SAVIC David (SRB,503) bt (Q) LIN Tzu-Yang (TPE,1271) 63 64
(2) SATSCHKO Alexander (GER,331) bt SHOKEEN Vivek (IND,757) 57 64 76(5)

Doubles Quarter Finals -
(1) (WC) Mustafa GHOUSE (IND)/ Purav RAJA (IND) bt Hsin-Han LEE (TPE)/ Tsung-Hua YANG (TPE) 63 67(5) 10(8)
(3) Vivek SHOKEEN (IND)/ ASHUTOSH SINGH (IND) bt Vinod SRIDHAR (IND)/ Vishnu VARDHAN (IND) 76(5) 76(6)

David SAVIC (SRB)/ Todor ENEV (BUL) bt (ALT) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND)/ Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) 36 75 10(7)
(2) Vijay KANNAN (IND)/ Alexey KEDRYUK (KAZ) bt KHAN Aqeel (PAK)/ Yannick NELORD (IND) 64 64

So Navdeep and Rohan managed to keep Indian interest alive ... But look at another close loss of Vivek against 2nd seed ... He almost pulled victory but in end again find him at losing side ... Really tough luck for Vivek.
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Badminton News -
At $80K Yonex German Open 2008, Mulheim (GP Series)

[R1] (WC) Anand Pawar (IND,124) l (8) Andre Kurniawan Tedjono (INA,25) 10-21 21-12 15-21
[R1] (9) Anup Sridhar (IND,27) l Seung Mo Shon (KOR,61) 11-21 5-21
[R1] Arvind Bhat (IND,46) vs Erwin Kehlhoffner (FRA,65) 16-21 21-17 18-21

Disappointing performance by Indians, importantly Anup and Arvind ... Hopefully his new travelling coach, Thomas John, Anup perform better in coming tournaments.