Squash News -
At 14th Asian Senior Squash Championships 2008, Kuwait (13-21 Feb 2008)

Mens Singles -
[R3] (3/4) Saurav Ghosal (IND,49) bt (9/16) Max Lee (HKG,122) 9-3 9-1 9-1 (48m)
[R3] (9/16) Siddharth Suchde (IND,131) bt (5/8) Mohd. Nafiizwan (MAS,86) 6-9 9-3 7-9 9-5
9-6 (106m)

[QF] (3/4) Saurav Ghosal (IND,49) l (9/16) Abdullah Kh. Al-Mezayen (KUW,UNR) 10-8 (2-0) 4-9 1-9 3-9 (72m)
[QF] (9/16) Siddharth Suchde (IND,131) l (2) Ong Beg Hee (MAS,18) 2-9 3-9 10-8 (2-0) 2-9 (62m)

Womens Singles -
[R2] (5/8) Joshna Chinappa (IND,43) bt (9/16) Maria Toor Pakay (PAK,77) 9-1 9-6 9-2 (31m)
[R2] (9/16) Anwesha Reddy (IND,128) l (3/4) Sharon Wee (MAS,21) 1-9 4-9 6-9 (34m)

[QF] (5/8) Joshna Chinappa (IND,43) bt (3/4) Sharon Wee (MAS,21) 9-5 4-9 9-7 9-5 (55m)

[SF] (5/8) Joshna Chinappa (IND,43) vs (2) Rebecca Chiu (HKG,13)

Another poor result for Saurav, last few months Saurav is stagnant in 40-50 ranking and no clear indication of improvement ... I feel he need to change his coaching, little Egyptian flavor could be useful to his game.

Siddharth produced good fighting performance against top-20 player.

Superb performance by Joshna to beat top-20 player ... I m sure with this win we can expect some good result from her in near future ... Now in semis she is facing top10 type Hong kong player.
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Golf News -
At Jakarta Astro Indonesia Open, Indonesia - Third Round

T2 SINGH Jeev Milkha 65 66 65 -14
T10 ATWAL Arjun 67 67 66 -10
T28 RANDHAWA Jyoti 68 70 66 -6
T37 KAPUR Shiv 69 67 69 -5
T37 GHEI Gaurav 71 67 67 -5

Jeev is loving this course at Cengkareng Golf Club ... Today he scored another -5 round, that moved him to T2 position and 2 strokes behind Chilean leader Felipe Aguilar.

Jeev made 6 birdies and a bogey in his round ... Arjun scored -4 round to moved inside top 10, he scored 5 birdies and a bogey ... Gaurav scored -3 round to moved inside top 40, he scored 5 birdies and couple of bogeys ... Today only Shiv dropped from yesterday's standing ... He scored -1 round with 2 birdies and a bogey.

Today Jyoti had most entertaining round ... He played attacking golf to scored 9 birdies, couple of double bogeys and a bogey in his round ... Jyoti must be disappointed scoring only -4 after this effort, but this round helped him to move inside top 30.
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Athletics News -
At the 3rd Asian Indoor Athletics Championships, Doha

Preeja Shreedharan won second gold medal for India in the women's 3000m race with a championship record of 9:12.26s ... Kavita Raut won silver with timing of 9:26.01s.

Chatholi Hamza won silver in men's 1500m race with timing 3:41.18s.

Amarjeet Singh showed a creditable performance to won silver in men's triple jump by leaping 16.26m.

In women's 400m race, Mandeep Kaur only managed bronze with 54.28s timing.

Leelavathi Veerappan also didn't perform as well to won bronze in women's 60m hurdles with timing of 9.21 sec.

So India has so far won two gold, five silver and three bronze medals in 3 days competition.
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Hockey News -

A lot of backroom lobbying and some tough talking seem to have set things right for Indian hockey, at least for now. A day after saying he would be skipping the Olympic qualifiers in Chile, Rajpal Singh did a volte face on Wednesday by saying he will after all play in the Santiago qualifiers next month.

Nice comments by Indian coach Joaquim Carvalho - "I wouldn’t talk about any incident. But when it comes to discipline, everyone knows that I make no compromises. In my team, any player be it senior or junior is expected to maintain a code of conduct and I am very particular about it. It is natural that if someone tries to do something silly, I will pull him up."

About Rajpal - "As far as I am concerned, he is very much a part of my team. Boys make mistakes, and that is it."